News:

 4th CEPR Workshop on Media, Technology, Politics, and Society (Rome, June 25-26, 2026)

Working Papers:

• Fact-Checking Politicians (with Andrea Mattozzi & Samuel Nocito) [VoxEU]

Selected Publications

• Ranking for Engagement: How Social Media Algorithms Fuel Misinformation and Polarization  (with Fabrizio Germano and Vicenç Gómez), 

Journal of Public Economics, 255, 2026. 

•  Lost in the Net? Broadband Internet and Youth Mental Health,  (with Dante Donati, Ruben Durante & Dijana Zejcirovic) [VoxEU Video]  [Voce.info]

Journal of Health Economics, 103, 2025

• War of the Waves: Radio and Resistance During World War II (with Stefano Gagliarducci, Massimiliano Onorato & Guido Tabellini)

American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 12(4), 2020 (leading article). [WP version]; [Online Appendix]; [AEA Research Highlights; VoxEU; Voce.info]

• The Political Cost of Being Soft on Crime: Evidence from a Natural Experiment (with Francesco Drago & Roberto Galbiati)

Journal of the European Economic Association, 18(6), 2020  [Online Appendix]; [VoxEU]

• Politics 2.0.: The Multifaceted Effect of Broadband Internet on Political Participation (with Filipe Campante & Ruben Durante) 

Journal of the European Economic Association, 16(4), 2018. [NBER WP version]; [VoxEU]

•   Meet the Press: How Voters and Politicians Respond to Newspaper Entry and Exit (with Francesco Drago & Tommaso Nannicini)

 American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 6(3): 159–188, 2014.  

Copyright 2014, American Economic Association. [Online Appendix] [Data Set]

•   Citizen-Editors' Endogenous Information Acquisition and News Accuracy

Journal of Public Economics, vol. 113, 43-53, 2014. [WP version];[Online appendix]