Francesco Amodio Assistant Professor, McGill University Department of Economics and Institute for the Study of International Development CEPR and IZA Research Affiliate, CIREQ Research Fellow, McGill CPD Associate Member curriculum vitae [pdf] e-mail  francesco.amodio [at] mcgill.ca  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	Input Allocation, Workforce Management and Productivity Spillovers: Evidence from Personnel Data  with Miguel A. Martinez Carrasco The Review of Economic Studies 85(4), 2018, 1937-1970. Ethnicity and Violence During Democratic Transitions: Evidence from South Africa  with Giorgio Chiovelli Journal of the European Economic Association 16(4), 2018, 1234-1280. Making Do with What You Have: Conflict, Input Misallocation and Firm Performance  with Michele Di Maio The Economic Journal 128(615), 2018, 2559-2612. Crime Protection Investment Spillovers: Theory and Evidence from the City of Buenos Aires Forthcoming, Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization
Working Papers	Security, Trade, and Political Violence with Leonardo Baccini and Michele Di Maio Bribes vs. Taxes: Market Structure and Incentives  with Jieun Choi, Giacomo De Giorgi and Aminur Rahman  [Non-technical summary in VoxDev] Selection and Absolute Advantage in Farming and Entrepreneurship: Micro Evidence and its Macro Implications with Francisco Alvarez-Cuadrado and Markus Poschke
Work in Progress	Workplace Incentives Under Asymmetric Information with Miguel A. Martinez Carrasco  Ethnic Favoritism in Democracy: The Political Economy of Land and Labor in Sub-Saharan Africa with Giorgio Chiovelli and Sebastian Hohmann Causes and Consequences of Trade Liberalization with Leonardo Baccini, Giorgio Chiovelli and Michele Di Maio
Policy Briefs	The Effect of the Italian Support System for Refugees and Asylum Seekers on the Local Economy with Angelo Martelli and Claire Paoli [pdf]  Trade Restrictions Lead to Lower Wages and More Violence. with Michele Di Maio [pdf]
Media/Posts	Se i Rifugiati Danno Posti di Lavoro agli Italiani with Angelo Martelli and Claire Paoli, October 2018, lavoce.info [link] 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).
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