Giovanni Mastrobuoni

Leave the Door Open? Prison Conditions and Recidivism (American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2022, 14(4), 200-233), with Daniele Terlizzese (WP version)

Silence of the Innocents: Undocumented Immigrants' Underreporting of Crime and their Victimization Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 2020, 39 (4), 1214-1245 , with Antonio Nicolo' and Stefano Comino (WP version)

The Race Between Deterrence and Displacement: Theory and Evidence from Bank Robberies, The Review of Economics and Statistics, 2021; 103 (3): 547–562 with Vikram Maheshri (WP version)

Crime is Terribly Revealing: Information Technology and Police Productivity, The Review of Economic Studies, 2020, 87(6), 2727-2753 (WP version)

Partners in Crime: Evidence from Recidivating Inmates, with Pierre Rialland, Italian Economic Journal, 2020

Police Disruption and Performance: Evidence from Recurrent Redeployment Within a City, Journal of Public Economics, August 2019, 176, 18-31. (WP version)

Does Immigration Increase Crime? Migration Policy and the Creation of the Criminal Immigrant. Cambridge University Press, 2019, with F. Fasani, P.. Pinotti and E. Owens

Optimising Criminal Behavior and the Disutility of Prison, with David Rivers, The Economic Journal, April 2019, 129(619): 1364-1399 (WP version)

Invalid Ballots and Electoral Competition, with Gani Aldashev, Political Science Research and Methods, 7(2), April 2019 , pp. 289-310. (WP version)

Rationalizable Suicides: Evidence from Changes in Inmates' Expected Sentence Length, with Nadia Campaniello and Theo Diasakos Journal of the European Economic Association, April 2017, 15 (2): 388-428. (WP version)

Returns to Education in Criminal Organizations: Did Going to College Help Michael Corleone?, with Nadia Campaniello and Rowena Gray, October 2016, Economics of Education Review, 58, 242-258. (WP version)

The Value of Connections: Evidence from the Italian-American Mafia, The Economic Journal, 125(586), 256-288, August 2015. (WP version)

Legal status and the criminal activity of immigrants, with Paolo Pinotti, American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 7(2), 175-206, April 2015. (WP version)

Price As a Signal of Product Quality: Some Experimental Evidence, with Franco Peracchi, and Alex Tetenov, Journal of Wine Economics 9(2): 135-152, 2014, . (WP version)

Political Economy of the Social Security Disability Insurance: Theory and Evidence of Gubernatorial Learning, with Radha K. Iyengar, IZA Journal of Labor Policy 3:16, 2014.

Beneath the Surface: the Decline in Gender Injury Gap, with Tiziano Razzolini, Roberto Leombruni, and Mario Pagliero, Labour Economics, 30, 2014, . (WP version)

The Incapacitation Effect of Incarceration: Evidence from Several Italian Collective Pardons , with Alessandro Barbarino, American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 6(1), February 2014, 1-37, Online appendix . (WP version)

Centralized vs. Decentralized Police Hiring in Italy and the US, with Paolo Buonanno, in Lessons from the Economics of Crime, Ed. P. Cook, S. Machin, O. Marie and G. Mastrobuoni, MIT Press, Cambridge, 2013 .

Crime Economics in Its Fifth Decade, with Philip Cook, Stephen Machin, Olivier Marie, in Lessons from the Economics of Crime, Ed. P. Cook, S. Machin, O. Marie and G. Mastrobuoni, MIT Press, Cambridge, 2013.

Organized Crime Networks: an Application of Network Analysis Techniques to the American Mafia, Review of Network Economics, Issue 3, September 2012, with Eleonora Patacchini. (WP version)

The Role of Information for Retirement Behavior: Evidence Based on the Social Security Statement, Journal of Public Economics, Volume 95, Issues 7-8, August 2011, Pages 913-925. (WP version)

Labor Supply Effects of the Recent Social Security Benefit Cuts: Empirical Estimates Using Cohort Discontinuities, Journal of Public Economics, Volume 93, Issues 11-12, December 2009, Pages 1224-1233 (an extended WP Version)

Heterogeneity in Intra-Monthly Consumption Patterns, Self-Control, and Savings at Retirement, with Matt Weinberg, American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 1(2): 163–89, August 2009. (WP version)

The Euro Changeover and Its Effects on Price Transparency and Inflation, with Wioletta Dziuda, Journal of Money, Credit, and Banking, 41(1), 101-129, February 2009. (WP version)

Public Pensions in Italy and Germany: A Comparison based on Panel Data, Rivista di Politica Economica, October 2000

Working Papers

Strategic Bureaucratic Opacity: Evidence from Death Investigation Laws and Police Killings, November 2023, with Elda Celislami and Stepen Kastoryano

The Perverse Effect of Flexible Work Arrangements on Informality, December 2022, with Edoardi di Porto, Pietro Garibaldi and Paolo Naticchioni

Police Patrols and Crime, March 2018, with Jordi Blanes i Vidal

Criminal Discount Factors and Deterrence (Reject and Resubmit Review of Economic Studies, with David Rivers, February 2016

Police and Crime: Evidence from Dictated Delays in Centralized Police Hiring, with Paolo Buonanno, Feb 2012

The Relative Utility Hypothesis With and Without Self-reported Reference Wages, with Adrian de la Garza, Atsushi Sannabe, and Katsunori Yamada, November 2010

Do Social Security Recipients Smooth Consumption Between Checks? Evidence Using New Data With Variation in Pay Dates, with Matt Weinberg, January 2010

Non-refereed publications

Advances in the econometrics of crime, with Paolo Pinotti, Advances in the Econometrics of Crime, with Paolo Pinotti, in Encyclopedia of Criminology and Criminal Justice, (Eds.) Bruinsma, Gerben, Weisburd, David (Eds.) Springer Verlag Publishers, 2014.

Micro Modeling of Retirement Decisions in Germany, with A. Börsch-Supan, R. Schnabel and S. Kohnz in "Social Security and Retirement around the World: Micro-Estimation," NBER, Jonathan Gruber and David A. Wise, editors, Chicago University Press, 2004

Do Social Security Statements Affect Knowledge and Behavior?, Center for Retirement Research at Boston College Issue in Brief, April 2011

Costi diretti e indiretti dell'evento rapina, with Laura Santariello, Pietro Scabellone, Bancaria Editrice, 2010