Research

Working Papers and Work in Progress

  • A General Test for Instrument Validity, with Seojeong Lee. slides

  • Errors in Reports of Household Consumption: Evidence from a Large Scale Experiment in Iraq, with Erich Battistin and Nandini Krishnan. WB working paper - Media Coverage.

  • Roadblocks on the road to grandma's house: fertility consequences of delayed retirement, with Erich Battistin and Mario Padula, submitted. previous version

  • Consumption during the Great Recession in Italy, with Martina Celidoni and Guglielmo Weber. preliminary version

  • Estimating features of consumption from expenditure data. preliminary version

Articles

  • Counting rotten apples: students achievement and score manipulation in Italian elementary schools, with Erich Battistin and Daniela Vuri, Journal of Econometrics. 2017. Vol. 200(2) p. 344-362. link to paper

  • Nonlinear errors-in-variables models with measurement errors on both sides of the equation, with Arthur Lewbel, Journal of Econometrics. 2016. Vol. 191(1) p. 19-32. link to paper

  • Identification and estimation of Engel curves with endogenous and unobserved expenditures, with Erich Battistin, Journal of Applied Econometrics. 2015. Vol. 30(3) p. 487-508. link to paper

  • Misreported schooling, multiple measures and returns to educational qualifications, with Erich Battistin and Barbara Sianesi, Journal of Econometrics. 2014. Vol. 181(2) p. 136-150. link to paper