Selected Publications
Liberation Technology: Mobile Phones and Political Mobilization in Africa, forthcoming, Econometrica, 2020, (with A. Tesei).
[Featured in: Atlantico, Universo on Line, Interview: Deutsche Welle.]
Politics in the Family: Nepotism and the Hiring Decisions of Italian Firms, 2020, American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, (with S. Gagliarducci).
[Featured in: Le Monde, Il Sole 24 Ore, Interview: Il Sole 24 Ore.]
Pathways from school to work in the developing world, IZA Journal of Labor Development, 2017 (with G. Dachille, M. Ranzani and F. Rosati).
Do Cash Transfers Improve Birth Outcomes? Evidence from Matched Vital Statistics, Social Security and Program Administrative Data, American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 2016, 8(2): 1-43, (with V. Amarante, E. Miguel and A. Vigorito).
[Featured in: La Diaria.]
Violence and Birth Outcomes: Evidence from Homicides in Brazil, Journal of Development Economics, 2016, 119: 16-33, (with M. Koppensteiner).
[Featured in: Correio Braziliense.]
The Impact of Immigration on the Structure of Male Wages: Theory and Evidence from Britain, Journal of the European Economic Association, 2012, 10(1): 120-151, (with A. Manning and J. Wadsworth).
[Featured in: The Economist, Financial Times, Les Echos, LSE Business Review. Interviews: Voice of America, EuroNews.]
The Cost of Grade Retention, Review of Economics and Statistics, 94 (2), 2012: 596-606.
[Featured in: La Nacion, Nada es Gratis.]
School Proximity and Child Labor: Evidence from Rural Tanzania, Journal of Human Resources, 2012, 47(1): 32-63, (with F. Kondylis).
Government Transfers and Political Support, American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2011, 3(3): 1-28, (with E. Miguel and A. Vigorito).
[Featured in: Chris Blattman's Blog.]
Industrial and Child Labor: Evidence from the Brazilian Population Census, Economic Development and Cultural Change, 59(4), 2011, 753-776, (with F. C. Rosati).
Minimum Wages and Earnings Inequality in Urban Mexico, American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2(4), 2010: 128-149, (with M. Bosch).
[Featured in Horizontal]
Changes in Returns to Education in Latin America: The Role of Demand and Supply of Skills, Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 63(2), 2010: 307-326, (with C. Sánchez-Páramo and N. Schady).
Giving Children a Better Start: Preschool Attendance and School-Age Profiles, Journal of Public Economics, 2008, 92(5): 1416-1440, (with S. Berlinski and S. Galiani).
[Featured in: El Pais Uruguay.]
Child Labor and the Labor Supply of Other Household Members, Evidence from 1920 America, American Economic Review, 2006, 96(5): 1788-1801.
[Interviews: Al Jazeera, The Lancet.]
Why Do Most Italian Youths Live with their Parents? Intergenerational Transfers and Household Structure, Journal of the European Economic Association, 2006, 4(4): 800–829, (with E. Moretti).
[Featured in: The Guardian, The Guardian, The Daily Telegraph, The Independent, Metro, Corriere Della Sera, La Repubblica, La Repubblica, Die Welt, TIME Magazine, TIME Magazine Europe, Hürriyet, La Voce, Il Messaggero, Denick, LSE Blog.]
Can the Scala Mobile Explain the Fall and Rise of Earnings Inequality in Italy? A Semiparametric Analysis, 1997-1993, Journal of Labor Economics, 22(3), 2004: 585-613.
Working papers
Mobile Internet and the Rise of Communitarian Politics (with G. Tabellini and A. Tesei), April 2023, R&R, Review of Economic Studies.
``The International Transmission of Democratic Values. Evidence from the African Diaspora'' (with Jacopo Ponticelli and Andrea Tesei), working paper, March 2024.
In progress
Ihe Politics and Economics of Government Aid (with T. Colussi, G. Lecce and M. Onorato)
The Economic Consequences of Outmigration (with and N. Fontana, G. Russo and M. Tabellini)
nternet diffusion, Telecommuting and Female Labour Supply (with B. Petrongolo)
TFirms and Mental Health (with M. Fjællegaard Jensen and B Petrongolo)
Emigration and Long-Run Economic Development: the Effects of the Italian Mass Migration (with N. Fontana, G. Russo and M. Tabellini).