Francesco Amodio Assistant Professor, McGill University e-mail  francesco.amodio [at] mcgill.ca  curriculum vitae [pdf] Department of Economics and  Institute for the Study of International Development McGill University Leacock Building 514 855 Sherbrooke St. West Montreal, QC, H3A 2T7
Research Interests	Labor Economics, Development Economics, Political Economy I study market imperfections and their impact on the productivity and efficiency of organizations.
Published and Forthcoming Papers	Ethnicity and Violence During Democratic Transitions: Evidence from South Africa  with Giorgio Chiovelli Accepted, Journal of the European Economic Association Making Do with What You Have: Conflict, Input Misallocation and Firm Performance  with Michele Di Maio Forthcoming, The Economic Journal Crime Protection Investment Spillovers: Theory and Evidence from the City of Buenos Aires Forthcoming, Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization
Working Papers	Input Allocation, Workforce Management and Productivity Spillovers: Evidence from Personnel Data  with Miguel A. Martinez Carrasco Revise and Resubmit, Review of Economic Studies Security, Trade, and Political Violence with Leonardo Baccini and Michele Di Maio Ethnic Favoritism in Democracy: The Political Economy of Land and Labor in South Africa with Giorgio Chiovelli
Work in Progress	Bribes vs. Taxes: Market Structure and Incentives with Giacomo De Giorgi, Aminur Rahman and Jieun Choi  Incentive Regime Switch and Learning at the Workplace with Miguel A. Martinez Carrasco  Farming and Entrepreneurship in Sub-Saharan Africa with Francisco Alvarez-Cuadrado and Markus Poschke Trade, Comparative Advantage, and Local Patterns of Political Violence with Leonardo Baccini and Michele Di Maio
Circulated Works	Hard to Forget: Long-lasting Effects of Social Capital Accumulation Shocks AICCON Working Papers 105 [pdf]
Media/Posts	Il Ventennio Boom del Divario Generazionale with Angelo Martelli, June 2014, linkiesta.it [link] Firms in Conflict: Adapt or Perish with Michele Di Maio, May 2014, sipri.org [link] Percepciones y Realidad sobre el tema de los Delitos en la Ciudad de Buenos Aires with Lucia Freira, February 2013, focoeconomico.org [link]
Stata	RD Design: A Simplified Test for Discontinuity in the Density of the Forcing Variable [*.do file] Basics are from McCrary (2006), but simple triangle kernel is used for estimation of density functions on both sides of the cutoff. Allows for choice of bin size for computation of discretized density, and bandwidth for kernel smoothing. The line plot of estimated densities is superimposed to the scatter plot of discretized density. Height difference and its standard error are estimated using bootstrap methods. Correction of Misspelled Strings using Levenshtein Distance through the 'strgroup' Command [*.do file] It applies to cases in which misspelled strings have to be matched with correct spells from a given vocabulary. The 'strgroup' command is developed by Julian Reif, University of Chicago (http://ideas.repec.org/c/boc/bocode/s457151.html).
Miscellanea	http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bari_dialect