Current:
2024 – present: Associate Professor of Economics, Teaching Stream, Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy, University of Toronto
Previous:
2018 – 2024: Assistant Professor of Economics, Teaching Stream, Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy, University of Toronto
2018 – 2023: Director, Trudeau Centre for Peace, Conflict and Justice, Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy, University of Toronto
2015 – 2018: Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, University of Toronto
2014 – 2015: Post-Doctoral Researcher, Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy, University of Toronto
2007 – 2013: Ph.D. in Economics, University of Sussex, Brighton, UK
2004 – 2008: Ph.D. in Quantitative Methods for Policy Analysis, Catholic University, Milan, Italy
2004 – 2005: M.A. in Development Economics (Distinction), University of Sussex, Brighton, UK
1998 – 2003: B.A. in Economics (Full marks 110/110 cum laude), Bocconi University, Milan, Italy
Primary: Development Economics, Labor Economics, Political Economy
Specific: Economics of Conflict, Economics of Discrimination, Gender Studies
Violence, Psychological Stress and School Performance in the early years of the "War on Drugs" in Mexico. 2020. Journal of Development Economics, 143 (with Maren M. Michaelsen)
Estimating conversion rates: A new empirical strategy with an application to healthcare in Italy. 2019. Health Economics, 28(6): 748-764 (with Enrica Chiappero Martinetti and Francesco Scervini)
Taxation, Non-Tax Revenue and Democracy: New Evidence Using New Cross-Country Data. 2018. World Development 109: 295-312 (with Wilson Prichard and Paul Segal)
Economic Development and the Regulation of Morally Contentious Activities. 2017. American Economic Review 107(5): 76-80 (with Julio J .Elias, Mario Macis and Nicola Lacetera)
The Evolution of Gender and Racial Occupational Segregation across Formal and non-Formal Labor Markets in Brazil, 1987 to 2006. 2016. Review of Income and Wealth 62(S1): S68-S89
Short and Long-Term Impact of Violence on Education: The Case of Timor Leste. 2014. World Bank Economic Review 28(2): 320-353 (with Patricia Justino and Marinella Leone)
Tenuous Link: Labour Market Institutions and Unemployment in Advanced and New Market Economies. 2013. Socio-Economic Review 11(4): 739-769 (with Sabina Avdagic)
Brazilian Poverty Between and Within Groups: Decomposition by Geographical, Group-specific Poverty Lines. 2009. Review of Urban and Regional Development Studies 21(1): 50-71
From resources to functioning: Rethinking and measuring conversion rates. 2019. In Comim F., S. Fennell and P.B. Anand (Eds). On the Capability of Capabilities. Cambridge University Press (with Enrica Chiappero Martinetti and Francesco Scervini)
Benessere e Fattori di Conversione: una Stima del Processo di Formazione del Benessere a Livello Individuale. 2009. In Chiappero Martinetti E. and S. Pareglio (Eds). Sviluppo Sostenibile e Qualita' della Vita. Modelli Economici e Politiche Pubbliche. Roma: Carocci Editore. pp. 121-148 (with Enrica Chiappero Martinetti)
The Effect of Gender Equality Programming on Humanitarian Outcomes. 2015. In Humanitarian Unit, UN Women (with Patricia Justino, Caroline Poelsch and Jean-Pierre Tranchant)
Undergraduate courses
- MUN140H: Design for Social Change and Inclusion
- PCJ360H/PPG310H: Data and Applications in Conflict and Justice
- PCJ460H/PPG410H: Causes and Consequences of Civil Conflicts and Violence
- ECO368H: Economics of Conflict
Graduate courses
- GLA1010H: Microeconomics for Global Affairs
- GLA2060H: Conflicts and Socioeconomic Development: Causes, Consequences and Responses
2024 – 2025: University of Toronto Experiential Learning (ELOS) Fellows Program for the MUN140 course "Design for Social change and Inclusion"
2021 – 2023: University of Toronto Teaching Fellowship (UTTF) for a project entitled “Making Data Analysis Accessible to Non-Specialists: Designing an Innovative Introductory Course to Data Analysis for PCJ Students”
2020 – 2021: Pedagogical Research Grant (PRG) for a project entitled “Evaluating the effectiveness of undergraduate programs of excellence: the case of the Peace, Conflict and Justice Program”
2020 – 2022: SSHRC Insight “The Effects of Improving Access to Justice for Victims of Intimate Partner Violence”, Principal Investigator: Carolina Arteaga; Co-investigators: Gustavo J. Bobonis, and Paola Salardi
2020 – 2021: SSHRC PEG “Improving Access to Justice in Intimate Partner Violence Cases: Availability, Support Services, and Personnel Quality”, Principal Investigator: Gustavo J. Bobonis, Co-investigator: Paola Salardi; Collaborator: Carolina Arteaga
2020 – 2021: SSHRC SIG "Improving Access to Justice in Intimate Partner Violence Cases: Availability, Support Services, and Personnel Quality ”, Principal Investigator: Gustavo J. Bobonis, Co-investigator: Paola Salardi; Collaborator: Carolina Arteaga
2015: Visiting Fellowship, Universidad de los Andes, Bogota, Colombia
2014 – 2015: Postdoctoral Fellowship, Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy, University of Toronto
Journal of Development Economics; World Development; Economic Development and Cultural Change; Journal of Peace Research; IZA Journal of Development and Migration; Economica; Review of Development Economics; Review of Income and Wealth; Journal of Human Development and Capabilities; Feminist Economics; Education Economics; Labour Economics.
Reach Alliance, Faculty Mentor
Massey College, Senior Fellow
Households in Conflict Network (HiCN), Senior Affiliate
Network of European Peace Scientists (NEPS), Member