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The Effects of Fiscal Decentralization on Publicly Provided Services and Labor Markets [link], in The Economic Journal 2023
with Nicola Bianchi and Michela GiorcelliCoverage: Bilancio di genere 2019, Kellogg Insight, VoxEU
Wealth Inequalities among Seniors: the Role of Marital Histories across Cohorts [link], in Review of Economics of the Household 2022
with Carole Bonnet, Benoît Rapoport and Anne SolazEvaluating Hiring Incentives: Evidence from Italian Firms [link], in International Journal of Manpower 2022
with Irene Brunetti and Andrea RicciINAPP working paper 2020/52 available here; Media coverage: eticaeconomia.it
Non Cognitive Skills and Childcare Attendance, in Review of Economics of the Household 20, pages 1059-1086 (2022)
with Daniela Del Boca and Chiara Daniela PronzatoAvoiding Taxes by Transfers Within the Family [link], in International Tax and Public Finance 1/2021
with Edoardo Di Porto and Henry OhlssonEarly Education and Gender Differences [link], in Economia Italiana 3/2019
with Daniela Del Boca, Elena Meroni and Daniela PiazzalungaIZA DP No. 12484 available here, CHILD Working Paper 70/2019 available here
Gli immigrati nel mercato del lavoro italiano: uno sguardo all'universo dei lavoratori dipendenti 1995-2015 [link], in Economia Italiana 2018/1, 35-71.
with Mariella Cozzolino, Edoardo Di Porto and Paolo NaticchioniMedia coverage: Huffington Post, www.ilgiornale.it, Financial Hub, Radio1
Disuguaglianze di genere nel mercato del lavoro: l'impatto del Bonus Infanzia e del congedo di paternità, in Rivista delle Politiche Sociali, 2018/1, pages 87-110
in Solera C., Pavolini E. (a cura di), Che "genere" di welfare? L'Italia in prospettiva comparata.Work in progress
Work in progress
The Labor Cost of Motherhood: Is a Shorter Leave Helpful? [link]
Awarded the Valeria Solesin Prize 2018 (University of Trento, University Ca' Foscari Venice, University Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne)
Media coverage: laVoce.info, Il Fatto Quotidiano, Internazionale, la27esimaora.corriere.it, The New York Times, LSE Business Review, RES Media Briefings
The aim of this paper is to analyze the effect of career breaks around childbirth and of parental leave policies on maternal labor market outcomes. I use Italian administrative data on the universe of dependent workers in the private sector to estimate the impact of childbirth on maternal earnings using an event study that accounts for individual fixed effects. Moreover, I exploit the introduction of a childcare subsidy conditional on early return to work as a quasi-experimental setting to estimate the causal impact of the length of parental leave on maternal labor market performance in the short and medium run. Preliminary results show that women experience more than 35% loss in earnings after the birth of a child, mostly driven by a reduction in labor supply, and the loss is persistent up to three years after maternity leave. The shorter leave induced by the introduction of conditional childcare subsidy increases maternal earnings and reduces the probability of leaving the labor market in the short run.
This paper analyses the impact of regularizing undocumented migrant workers on labor market outcomes at firms' and individual level. Using unique administrative data by the Italian Social Security Institute archives, on the universe of firms, workers and enforcement strategies, we evaluate Italy's largest legalization process ever. We use an unexpected quasi-random auditing program to deal with firms' self-selection into treatment. Our results show that the regularization had a positive impact on firm employment only in the short run and no effects on firm-level wages. Nonetheless, we provide evidence that around 75% of regularized migrants remain attached to the Italian formal labor market. Further, legalized migrants' coworkers are not (negatively) affected by the reform. Our findings highlight higher migrants' mobility to other firms, provinces and industries as an important driver of our results.
Wealth Inequalities among Seniors: the Role of Marital Histories across Cohorts, accepted Review of Economics of the Household [link]
with Carole Bonnet, Benoît Rapoport and Anne SolazWealth accumulation is the result of several factors: saving behaviors, inheritances, work and marital histories. The evolution of diversity of marital histories and the increasing interest in gender wealth inequality raise questions about the specific contribution of marital history to wealth accumulation, and how (and whether) this relation changes across cohorts. Focusing on individuals aged 50 or more and using data from wealth surveys conducted in France in 2004, 2009 and 2014, we evaluate the contribution of marital histories to individual wealth across di erent birth cohorts. We find that the accumulated wealth significantly depends on marital history, especially for women, while the relation is less relevant for men. In particular, we document large disparities among women and the existence of a couple premium, married and widow being wealthier than divorced, separated or always single. While on average marital history does not seem to be associated with different wealth accumulation for men, we find higher heterogeneity across the wealth distribution, as marital history plays a role in the lowest quartiles. Over birth cohorts, it seems that marital break-up is responsible for less accumulated wealth for women.
Divorce Rates and Marital Contracts in France and Italy
with Marion LeturcqRecent papers have found that the share of married couples opting for a separation of assets regime have increased in France (Frémeaux and Leturcq, 2013) and in Italy (Bayot and Voena, 2014) over the last decades. One of the proposed explanations to explain this trend hypothesizes that the increasing risk of divorce have made couples more reluctant to pool their assets, as separating assets is seen as a protection against divorce, especially among couples more at-risk of divorce. However, there is no evidence that couples who opted for the matrimonial regime of separation of assets are more at-risk of divorce. The goal of this paper is to fill this gap measuring divorce rates across couples with different marital contracts. We use French survey data and Italian administrative data on marriages and divorce to compute the differential rates of divorce for couple who choose different property regimes upon marriage.
Fertility, Maternal Employment and Household’s Poverty: New Evidence from Italian Data
CHILD Working Paper 47/2016 (old version)
I use data from the ISTAT Birth Sample Surveys and I adopt and compare different specifications of a 2SLS model using twin births as an instrument to estimate the causal impact of number of children on maternal labor supply and subjective poverty. Results show a significant negative impact on the probability of being employed or active and a significant positive impact on perceived financial difficulties in the short run. Results are stronger for younger and lower educated mothers; women with temporary contracts in the private sector or self-employed are more likely to leave the labor market.
Chapters and Reports
Chapters and Reports
La fruizione del congedo di maternità fra le lavoratrici dipendenti del settore privato
in Il Bilancio di Genere, Ragioneria Generale dello Stato, 2019
Maternità e occupazione femminile: l'effetto del Bonus Infanzia su salari e occupazione delle neo-madri
in Il Bilancio di Genere, Ragioneria Generale dello Stato, 2018
Investments in Early Education and Child Outcomes: The Short and the Long Run
with Daniela Del Boca and Daniela PiazzalungaIfo DICE Report 15(1), 2017, 43-48. Available here
Media coverage: laVoce.info, Radio3
Natalità e occupazione femminile nei dati VisitInps
with M. Cozzolino and A. Pontiin XVI Rapporto Annuale INPS, 2017
L'integrazione contributiva degli immigrati
with M. Antichi, G. Bovini, E. Di Porto, P. Naticchioni, P. Pinotti, S. Ponticelli, S. Thomasin XVI Rapporto Annuale INPS, 2017
What is the Impact of Organized Crime Infiltration in the Legal Economy? Comprehensive Quantitative Analysis
with C. Ardito and B. Fanfaniin Report on Organized Crime and the Legal Economy - The Italian Case, UniCRI 2016
Rischio di povertà e disuguaglianze alla nascita
in Niente figli siamo italiani, AA.VV. edited by B. Coccia. Editrice Apes 2015
Resoconto del seminario: “Come affrontare la crisi? Una proposta neokeynesiana per l'Italia"
with M. Bottiglieri, in E. PonzoOPAL - Osservatorio per le autonomie locali, n. 5/2014 numero monografico di POLIS Working Papers n. 216 (Sep. 2014)
Indicatori di benessere alternativi al PIL
in Lezioni di Economia, P. Paesani. Giappichelli editore, 2012
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