RESEARCH
PUBLICATIONS
"Thinking about parents: Gender and Field of Study" with M. Carlana. [PDF]
AEA Papers and Proceedings, May 2024.
"Child Marriage as Informal Insurance: Empirical Evidence and Policy Simulations" with A. Voena. [PDF]
Journal of Development Economics, Volume 162, May 2023.
"Interactions, Stereotypes and Performance. Evidence from South Africa" with E. La Ferrara and J. Burns. [PDF] [ON LINE APPENDIX]
American Economic Review, Volume 112, Issue 12. December 2022. Media: J-Pal
"HIV, Risk and Time Preferences: Evidence from a general population sample in Lesotho" with M. Bjorkman Nyqvist, D. de Walque, J. Svensson. [PDF]
Health Economics, Volume 31, Issue 5, February 2022.
"Weather shocks, Age of marriage and the Direction of marriage payments" with N. Hildebrandt and A. Voena. [PDF] [APPENDIX] [ONLINE APPENDIX]
Econometrica, Volume 88, Issue 3, May 2020. Media Coverage: IndianPress, VoxDev, Microeconomic Insight
"Risky sexual behavior: biological markers and self-reported data" with A. de Paula.[PDF]
Economica, 86 (342), pp.229-261, 2018. Media Coverage: VoxEU, Development Impact Blog
"Incentivizing safer sexual behaviour: Evidence from a randomized control trial on HIV prevention" with M. Bjorkman-Nyqvist, D. de Walque, J. Svensson. [PDF] [APPENDIX]
American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 10 (3), pp.287-314, 2018. Media Coverage: The New York Times; VoxEU, VoxDev, Foreign Policy, Development Impact Blog, Bloomberg, NPR Radio
"Homelessness and crime: do your friends matter?". [PDF]
The Economic Journal, 127 (602), pp. 959-995, 2017. Media Coverage: Royal Economic Society Media Briefing
"Learning (or not) in health seeking behavior: Evidence from rural Tanzania".[PDF]
Economic Development and Cultural Change, 63 (1), pp. 27-72, 2014.
"Mines, Migration and HIV/AIDS in Southern Africa" with D. de Walque.[PDF]
Journal of African Economies, 21 (3), pp. 465-498, 2012.
"Being homeless: Evidence from Italy", with M. Braga. [PDF]
Giornale degli Economisti e Annali di Economia, 70 (3), 2011. Media Coverage: Sole24Ore, La Repubblica, Libero
WORKING PAPERS
"Informing Risky Migrants: Evidence from a field experiment in Guinea", with G. Battiston and E. La Ferrara, CReAM working paper #3424, 2024 [PDF]
"Female Genital Cutting and the Slave Trade", with E. La Ferrara and A. Voena, IFS working paper # WP202522, 2025 [PDF] [APPENDIX] Media Coverage: The Telegraph
"Peer influence in Educational Choices: Social Image Concerns and Same-Gender Interactions" with M. Carlana. Cattolica University working paper #139, 2025 [PDF]
"Norms Replacement and Information. A field experiment on ending Female Genital Cutting" with E. La Ferrara
"The determinants of HIV infection and related sexual behaviors: Evidence from Lesotho" with D. de Walque. Policy Research Working Paper #4421, The World Bank, December 2007. [Archived Working Paper] [PDF]
SELECTED WORK IN PROGRESS
"Shifting Harmful Norms: Information and Alternative Practices to reduce "Breast-Ironing" AEA RCT Registy
"Peers in Action: An experiment on Female Genital Cutting and Child Marriage" with S. Gulesci AEA RCT Registy
PUBLICATIONS IN THE MEDICAL LITERATURE
"Socio-economic determinants of stigmatization and HIV testing in Lesotho" with Damien de Walque [PDF]
AIDS Care, Suppl 1: S108-13, 2013.
BOOK CHAPTERS
"Globalizzazione, diseguaglianza e povertà" (with R. Crino')
Vita e Pensiero, No. 8, edited by Universita' Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milano 2017.
"Social protection programs in Uganda and Botswana"
European Report on Development, European University Institute, Fiesole 2010.
"Milano e Torino, sguardo sugli homeless" (with M. Braga)
Vita e Pensiero, No. 5, edited by Universita' Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milano 2010.
"La povertà invisibile dei senza casa. L'approccio economico alla homelessness" with M. Braga and T. Boeri
Carocci Editore, Roma, 2009.
PUBLICATIONS IN THE POPOLAR PRESS
"Does pay for performance work?"
Centre for Government and Leadership, Queen Mary, University of London, 14-11-2013
"Senza casa. E invisibili" with M. Braga
La Voce, 17-02-2012
"Senza tetto, ma non senza speranza" with M. Braga
La Voce, 20-01-2009
GOOGLE SCHOLAR CITATIONS: [Google Scholar Citations]