Research

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Main publications (from the most recent):

• 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

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

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

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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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 journal articles (from the most recent):

• Free to Improve? The impact of free school attendance in England. Joint with Gabriel Heller-Sahlgren and Olmo Silva, 2025. Economics of Eduction Review. 

• The causal effect of working from home on mental health of 50+ Europeans. Joint with Danilo Cavapozzi, Caterina Pavese and Giacomo Pasini, 2025. Journal of the Economics of Ageing. Media coverage: il Gazzettino; le Scienze; ANSA; and many others.

• When Do Ordinal Ability Rank Effects Emerge? Evidence from the Timing of School Closures. Joint with Saeideh Parkham, 2025. Economics of Education Review.

• The age gradient in the effects of poverty alleviation program on schooling. Evidence from the Vietnam Hunger Eradication and Poverty Reduction program. Joint with Quyhn Huyhn and Lorenzo Rocco, 2025. Economics of Education Review.

• Pros and Cons of Digital Access to Healthcare Services and Healthcare Utilization: A Quasi-Experiment. Joint with Armenak Antinyan, Stefania Bellio, Luca Corazzini, Michela Longone and Elena Narne. 2024.  Frontiers in Behavioural Economics.

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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)

• 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.

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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)

• Rest Assured. The Effects of Sleep on Labor Productivity. Joint with Francesca Meli and Lorenzo Rocco. IZA Discussion Paper No. 17618, January 2025.

• Does Work-Based Learning Facilitate the School to Work Transition? Evidence from an Italian Reform. Joint with Martino Bernardi, Giorgio Brunello, Clementina Crocè, Lorenzo Rocco. IZA Discussion Paper No. 17352, October 2024.

• 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. [R&R, JPE: Micro]

• Employment Protection, Job Insecurity, and Job Mobility. Joint with Simone Chinetti and Roberto Nisticò. CSEF Discussion Paper No. 684, October 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. [R&R, JEBO]

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Work in Progress

• HEALTH: 

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

  • Genetic inequality and out-of-pocket healthcare expenditure. Joint with Anna Sanz-de-Galdeano and Ansatasia Terskaya.

  • Health shocks late in life: heterogeneous impacts on health and economic outcomes.  Joint with Anna Sanz-de-Galdeano and Javier Lopez.

• EDUCATION:

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

• LABOUR:

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

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