Agricultural Policy and Long-Run Development: Evidence from Mussolini’s Battle for Grain; The Economic Journal, Volume 131, Issue 634, February 2021, Pages 566–597. [accepted draft]
Pandemics and Regional Economic Growth: Evidence from the Great Influenza in Italy (joint with Tullio Jappelli) European Review of Economic History, Volume 26, Issue 1, February 2022, Pages 78–106, [accepted draft] [CEPR DP14849] Coverage: COVID Economics ISSUE 10; VoxEU; EEA COVID-19; Economic History Society
Fascistville: Mussolini’s New Towns and the Persistence of Neo-Fascism, Journal of Economic Growth, Volume 26, Issue 4, pages 527–567, 2022. (Open Access) Media Coverage: Domani News; Mises Wire; Eurasia Review; The Long Run; JEH meeting
Human Capital Composition and Long-Run Economic Growth Economic Modelling, vol. 137, 2024, pp. 106760. (replication files) (Open Access) Media Coverage: Education Daily Report
Fascist Ideology and Migrant Labor Exploitation (joint with Gemma Dipoppa and Shanker Satyanath) BSE Working Paper 1395| June 2023. McGillivray Best Paper Award for the best paper in Political Economy, APSA 2023
JUE Insight: When the Neighbors are Watching: Immigrant Integration Policy and Housing Wealth (joint with Lavinia Piemontese and Francesco F. Russo) SSRN 5184394 (2025) (R&R Journal of Urban Economics)
The Alpha Political Male (joint with Marta Reynal-Querol)
The Decline of Political Information and the Rise of Populism (joint with Maria Petrova and Giacomo Ponzetto)
The Effect of Regularization on Migrant Labor Exploitation (joint with Francesco Amodio, Elia Benveniste, Marc Riudavets-Barcons)
Fasci, Credit, and Crisis (joint with Mikhail Mamonov, Raoul Minetti, Pierluigi Murro)
Agriculture, Family Structure, and Economic Development: Evidence from Italy (joint with Matteo Sestito)
The Long-Lasting Economic Effects of Mussolini's Land Reclamation