Applied microeconomics · Causal inference · Labour and policy evaluation

I am a tenured Research Scientist at the Luxembourg Institute of Socio-Economic Research (LISER) and Adjunct Teacher with PhD supervision rights at the University of Luxembourg. I am also Research Fellow at IZA and GLO, affiliated researcher at Ghent University, and corresponding member of IRES (UCLouvain). My research is in applied microeconomics, with a focus on labour economics, causal inference, and policy evaluation. My work has appeared in the Journal of Public Economics, the Journal of the Royal Statistical Society (Series A), Labour Economics, and Oxford Economic Papers, among others.

I currently lead LISER's participation in the Horizon Europe project INDEMTRUST (2026-2029) as Principal Investigator and Task Leader. I was previously Principal Investigator of the FNR CORE Junior project CrossEUwork (2018-2022). I hold the Italian National Academic Qualification as Full Professor in Political Economy and as Associate Professor in Econometrics and Economic Statistics. My PhD thesis received the AISSEC first prize for best PhD thesis (2014-2016).

Current research focus

Labour-market policy evaluation: hiring subsidies, unemployment insurance, apprenticeship reforms, working-time arrangements
Education and early-life investments: educational reform, early childhood education and care, intergenerational mobility
Inequality and democratic resilience: economic insecurity and policy levers
Cross-border labour mobility: location decisions, social-protection, wage and employment effects.

Across these topics I work with administrative microdata and apply quasi-experimental designs (regression discontinuity, difference-in-differences, instrumental variables) and machine-learning methods for causal inference.

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