I am a Senior Lecturer in Economics at University of Essex; previous to Essex I was at University of Toronto; I hold a Phd from Berkeley; I am a Research Fellow at IZA, CESifo, CReAM and an Associate Editor at the Economic Journal. My primary research and teaching fields are Labour, Regional and Environmental Economics. Some of my research is at the intersection of my primary fields and Political Economy. I study the causes and the consequences of differences across space in both labour market and environmental outcomes. Within this agenda, research keywords are local labour markets, productivity, green skills, regional institutions.

  Current Research

• The World’s Rust Belts: The Heterogeneous Effects of Deindustrialization on 1,993 Cities in Six  Countries – with L. Gagliardi, E. Moretti, NBER Working Paper 31948. [Media/Outreach: UK Cabinet Office's Open Innovation Team, Forbes, Les Echos, Resolution Foundation, NBER Digest, IZA World of Labor, VoxEU, U of Essex taster]

• Demand for Green Skills in an Evolving Landscape - with E. Arenas-Arroyo, F. Mengel, B. Schmidpeter

• Fossil Fuel Communities - with D. Sonedda, P. Tukpetov

• The Fall of Dirty Manufacturing in the West: Environmental and Employment Consequences - with N. Reynolds

• Inventors' Coworker Networks and Innovation – with S. Di Addario, Z. Feng

• Tourist Attractiveness and the Local Labour Market - with L. Conti, M. Francesconi, G. Papini 

• Labour Market Evolutions in Rural Areas - with E. Eser, E. Faieta, Z. Feng

   Publications

• Foreign Direct Investment and Knowledge Diffusion in Poor Locations  - with G. Abebe & M. McMillan, Journal of Development Economics, Vol. 158  [VoxDev; Replication Files]

• Creativity over Time and Space - with G. Tabellini, Journal of Economic Growth, Vol. 27, pages 1–43,  [Media/outreach: Resolution Foundation, EEA Briefing, VoxEU, Marginal Revolution; Replication Files; Web Appendix] 

• 'Good' Firms, Worker Flows and Local Productivity,  Journal of Labor Economics, Vol. 37, pages 747-792. [VoxEU; Replication Files; Web Appendix; Slides]

• Politico-economic Regimes and Attitudes: Female Workers under State-socialism - with P. Campa, Review of Economics and Statistics, 101 (2), 233-248. [Media/outreach: VoxEU, HSE talk , Policy Brief, Convos With Tyler N. Nunn podcast; Replication Files; Web Appendix] 

• Attitudes, Policies and Work - with F. Giavazzi & F. Schiantarelli, Journal of the European Economic Association, 11 (6), 1256-1289  [Ungated Version; Replication Files; Web Appendix; non-technical summary]