Research

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Journal articles (from the most recent):

• Five selected publications 

  • Ordinal Rank and the Structure of Ability Peer Effects. Joint with Roberto Nisticò. 2023  Journal of Public Economics

  • The Long-Term Consequences of a Golden Nest. Socioeconomic Status in Childhood and the Age at Leaving Home. Joint with Viola Angelini and Guglielmo Weber. 2022 Demography

  • Cervical Cancer Screening Invitations in Low and Middle Income Countries: Evidence from Armenia. Joint with Armenak Antinyan and Luca Corazzini. 2021 Social Science and Medicine

  • School Choice During a Period of Radical School Reform. Evidence from the Academy Programme. Joint with Stephen Gibbons and Olmo Silva. 2020 Economic Policy

  • Does Postponing Minimum Retirement Age Improve Healthy Behaviours Before Retirement? Evidence from Middle-Aged Italian Workers. Joint with Giorgio Brunello and Gianluca Mazzarella. 2018 Journal of Health Economics

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• Other Publications (from the most recent)

  • If (My) 6 Was (Your) 9: Reporting Heterogeneity in Student Evaluations of Teaching. Joint with Enrico Rettore and Lorenzo Rocco. 2024. Labour Economics.

  • Pension Reforms, Longer Working Horizons and Depression. Does the Risk of Automation Matter?  Joint with Giorgio Brunello and Filippo da Re. 2023. Labour Economics

  • Training during recessions: Recent European evidence. Joint with Giorgio Brunello. 2022 IZA Journal of Labor Policy

  • How did European retirees respond to the COVID-19 pandemic? Joint with Martina Celidoni, Chiara Dal Bianco and Guglielmo Weber. 2022 Economics Letters

  • Where do I stand? Assessing Researchers' Beliefs abot Their Relative Productivity. Joint with Giorgio Brunello, Daniele Checchi and Lorenzo Rocco. 2021 Journal of Economic Behaviour & Organization

  • The Influence of Hidden Researcher Decisions in Applied Microeconomics. Joint with Nick Huntington-Klein and many others. 2021 Economic Inquiry. Winner of the 2021 best paper award at Economic Inquiry

  • Does Monitoring Deter Future Cheating? The Case of External Examiners in Italian Schools. Joint with Giorgio Brunello, Maria De Paola and Marco Alberto De Benedetto. 2021 Economics Letters

  • Does a Higher Retirement Age Reduce Youth Employment? Joint with Giorgio Brunello. 2021.  Economic Policy

  • The good outcome of bad news. A field experiment on formatting breast cancer screening invitation letters. Joint with Luca Corazzini and Silvana Robone. 2020 American Journal of Health Economics

  • Who benefits from privileged peers? Evidence from siblings in schools. Joint with Giorgio Brunello and Lorenzo Cappellari. 2020 Journal of Applied Econometrics

  • The ant or the grasshopper? The long-term consequences of unilateral divorce laws on savings of European households. Joint with Viola Angelini, Luca Stella and Christoph T. Weiss. 2019 European Economic Review

  • Depressive symptoms and muscle weakness: a two-way relation? Joint with Stefania Maggi, Nicola Veronese, Enzo Manzato and Guglielmo Weber. 2018 Experimental Gerontology

  • Does Paternal Unemployment Affect Young Adult Offspring's Personality? Joint with Viola Angelini and Luca Corazzini. 2018 Journal of Human Capital. Media coverage: die Welt.

  • Asymmetric affective forecasting errors and their correlation with subjective well-being. Joint with Luca Corazzini. 2018 PLoS ONE

  • Work, Retirement and Muscle Strength Loss in Old Age. Joint with Stefania Maggi and Guglielmo Weber. 2018 Health Economics

  • Pappa Ante Portas: The effect of the husband's retirement on the wife's mental health in Japan. Joint with Giorgio Brunello. 2017 Social Science and Medicine. Media coverage: IZA Newsroom, The Telegraph, The Daily Mail, ANSA, Repubblica, la Stampa, Il Sole 24 Ore and many others

  • Unpacking the Determinants of Life Satisfaction: A Survey Experiment. Joint with Viola Angelini and Luca Corazzini. 2017 Journal of the Royal Statistical Society: Series A (Statistics in Society)

  • Laterborns Don't Give Up. The Temporary Effects of Birth Order on European Earnings. Joint with Giorgio Brunello. 2016 Demography

  • Hungry Today, Unhappy Tomorrow? Childhood Hunger and Subjective Wellbeing Later in Life. 2015 Journal of Health Economics

  • Selection and the Age-Productivity Profile: Evidence from Chess Players. Joint with Giorgio Brunello and Lorenzo Rocco. 2015 Journal of Economic Behaviour & Organization Media coverage: IZA Newsroom, Die Zeit.

  • When the Cat Is Near, the Mice Won’t Play: The Effects of External Examiners in Italian Schools. Joint with Giorgio Brunello and Lorenzo Rocco. 2013 Journal of Public Economics Media coverage: lavoce.info.

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Other refereed publications (from the most recent)

• Personality, health behaviors, and financial investments. Joint with Andrea Bonfatti, Martina Celidoni Angela Crema, and Chiara Dal Bianco. In: Börsch-Supan, A., Bristle, J., Andersen-Ranberg, K., Brugiavini, A., Jusot, F., Litwin, H., and Weber, G. (Eds.), 2019. Health and socioeconomic status over the life course: First results from SHARE waves 6 and 7. Berlin/Boston: De Gruyter

• The end-of-working-life gender wage gap: the role of health shocks, parental education and personality traits. Joint with Andrea Bonfatti, Martina Celidoni, Angela Crema, and Chiara Dal Bianco. In: Börsch-Supan, A., Bristle, J., Andersen-Ranberg, K., Brugiavini, A., Jusot, F., Litwin, H., and Weber, G. (Eds.), 2019. Health and socioeconomic status over the life course: First results from SHARE waves 6 and 7. Berlin/Boston: De Gruyter

• Life expectancy and health investment. Joint with Andrea Bonfatti, Martina Celidoni, Angela Crema, and Chiara Dal Bianco. In: Börsch-Supan, A., Bristle, J., Andersen-Ranberg, K., Brugiavini, A., Jusot, F., Litwin, H., and Weber, G. (Eds.), 2019. Health and socioeconomic status over the life course: First results from SHARE waves 6 and 7. Berlin/Boston: De Gruyter

• Are you satisfied now? Joint with Viola Angelini and Luca Corazzini. Significance, December 2016.

• Assessing the material deprivation of older Europeans. Joint with Martina Celidoni, Danilo Cavapozzi and Elisabetta Trevisan. In: Börsch-Supan, A., Kneip, T., Litwin, H., Myck, M. and Weber, G., 2015, “Ageing in Europe – Supporting Policies for an Inclusive Society.” Berlin: De Gruyter.

• Development and validation of a material deprivation index. Joint with Martina Celidoni, Danilo Cavapozzi and Elisabetta Trevisan. In: Börsch-Supan, A., Kneip, T., Litwin, H., Myck, M. and Weber, G., 2015, “Ageing in Europe – Supporting Policies for an Inclusive Society.” Berlin: De Gruyter.

• Does hearing impairment lead to social exclusion? Joint with Martina Celidoni, and Guglielmo Weber. In: Börsch-Supan, A., Kneip, T., Litwin, H., Myck, M. and Weber, G., 2015. “Ageing in Europe – Supporting Policies for an Inclusive Society.” Berlin: De Gruyter.

• Harmonized net income measures in SHARE Wave 1. Joint with Andrea Bonfatti, Chiara Dal Bianco, Guglielmo Weber and Francesca Zantomio. SHARE working paper series 25-2016. Permanent working paper. 

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Working Papers (From the most recent - I drop them from the list when the paper is published)

• Subjective gender-based patterns in ADHD diagnosis. Joint with Blas A. Marin-Lopez and Anna Sanz-de-Galdeano. IZA Discussion Paper No. 16634, November 2023.

• Employment Protection, Job Insecurity, and Job Mobility. Joint with Simone Chinetti and Roberto Nisticò. CSEF Discussion Paper No. 684, October 2023

• Free to Improve? The impact of free school attendance in England. Joint with Gabriel Heller-Sahlgren and Olmo Silva. CEP Discussion Paper No. 1946. September 2023

• Medical Brain Drain. Assessing the Role of Job Attributes and Individual Traits. Joint with Debdeep Chattopadhyay and Yuanyuan Gu. IZA Discussion Paper No. 16243. June 2023. 

• The Long-Run Earnings Effects of Winning a Mayoral Election.  VisitINPS 2018 project. Joint with Giorgio Brunello, Lorenzo Cappellari and Maria De Paola. IZA Discussion Paper No. 15864. and WorkInps Paper n. 60. January 2023. 

• Digital Access to Healthcare Services and Healthcare Utilization: A Quasi-Experiment. Joint with Armenak Antinyan, Stefania Bellio, Luca Corazzini and Elena Narne.  IZA Discussion Paper No. 14916. December 2021. 

• Remote working and mental health during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic. Joint with Danilo Cavapozzi, Giacomo Pasini and Caterina Pavese. IZA Discussion Paper No. 14773. October 2021. 

• The Effects of the Vietnam Hunger Eradication Program on Schooling. Joint with Quyhn Huyhn and Lorenzo Rocco. IZA Discussion Paper 12747, November 2019. [R&R}

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Work in Progress

• HEALTH: 

  • Does pediatric health information curb over-medication? Joint with Giacomo Pasini. 

  • Managers and management practices in Italian public hospitals. Joint with Paola Bertoli, Francesco Campo, and Veronica Grembi. NextGenEU - PNRR project

• EDUCATION:

• Shool types. Joint with Olmo Silva, Thilo Klein and Filip Gonschorek.

• Can school-work alternance programs ease the school-to-work transisiton? Joint with Giorgio Brunello, Clementina Crocè and Lorenzo Rocco

• LABOUR:

• Pre-natal sex detection technologies and maternal labor supply in India. Joint with Chiara Dal Bianco, Isha Gupta and Guglielmo Weber.

• The early brid does not get the worm. Joint with Francesca Meli and Lorenzo Rocco.

• Income shocks and mental health in Australia. Joint with Anam Bilgrami and many others (e61 sponsored project)