Full Professor of Economics, University of Naples Federico II
Research Affiliate, CESifo, HEDG, HiCN, MINOS
Research interests: Development Economics, Labor Economics and Political Economics.
Contacts:
Department of Economics and Statistics
University of Naples Federico II
Via Cintia Monte S. Angelo, 80126 Napoli, Italy
Tel: +39 081 675358
2024- Full Professor, Department of Economics and Statistics (DiSES), University of Naples Federico II
2021-2024 Associate Professor, Department of Economics and Statistics (DiSES), University of Naples Federico II
2018-2021 Senior Assistant Professor (RTD-B), Department of Economics and Statistics (DiSES), University of Naples Federico II
2016-2018 Assistant Professor (RTD-A), Department of Economics and Statistics, University of Naples Federico II
2013-2016 Postdoctoral Fellow, CSEF and University of Naples Federico II
2014 PhD in Economics, University of Essex
2012 Doctorate in Economics, University of Naples Parthenope
2008 Master in Economics and Finance (MEF), University of Naples Federico II
Rebel taxation, territorial control and post-war fiscal capacity (with Vincenzo Bove and Jessica Di Salvatore), 2024, Statebuilding in Conflict-Affected Contexts: The Role of Taxation Research Grant, UNU-WIDER ($6,000)
STEP BY STEP: Educational stages, choices, achievement and long-run outcomes, Associated Investigator (with Marco Bertoni, Lorenzo Cappellari and Vincenzo Scoppa), 2023, Italian Ministry of University and Research, PRIN 2022 (EUR 288,334)
Mentoring and schooling choices: experimental evidence from Italy, Co-Principal Investigator (with Michele Giannola, Tullio Jappelli, Monica Langella, Lorenzo Pandolfi and Valeria Zurla), 2023, UniCredit Foundation 1st Education Research Grant (EUR 200,000)
Gender inequalities, Co-Pricipal Investigator (with Pietro Biroli, Chiara Monfardini, Margherita Fort, Elena Pisanelli and Valeria Zurla), 2024, GRINS Foundation, Spoke 3 Households Sustainability, Work Package 3 Individuals and Households in the Labor Markets
The effects of tenure-track systems on selection, productivity and fertility in Economics, Principal Investigator (with Marco G. Nieddu and Lorenzo Pandolfi), 2022, Career Structure in Economics Research Grant, European Economic Association (EUR 20,000)
Toward a comprehensive assessment of labour market reforms, Principal Investigator (with Tommaso Oliviero and Annalisa Scognamiglio), 2021, Finanziamento della Ricerca di Ateneo (FRA) Research Grant, University of Naples Federico II (EUR 40,000)
The impact of the Italian Jobs Act on fertility, Principal Investigator (with Maria De Paola and Vincenzo Scoppa), 2020, VisitINPS Fellowship on gender inequalities, Italian Social Security Institute, INPS (EUR 6,000)
Trade sanctions and informal employment in a middle-income country, Principal Investigator (with Ali Moghaddasi Kelishomi), 2022, Detecting and Countering Illicit Financial Flows (Second Call) Research Grant, UNU-WIDER ($10,000)
Mothers at peace: post-conflict, fertility and UN peacekeeping, Co-Investigator (with Vincenzo Bove, Jessica Di Salvatore and Leandro Elia), 2021, Institutional Legacies of Violent Conflict Research Grant, UNU-WIDER ($6,000)
Trade flows in the shadow of economic sanctions, Principal Investigator (with Vincenzo Bove and Jessica Di Salvatore), 2021, Detecting and Countering Illicit Financial Flows Research Grant, UNU-WIDER ($10,000)
Fertility decisions and employment protection: evidence from the Italian Jobs Act, Principal Investigator, (with Maria De Paola and Vincenzo Scoppa), 2019, EIEF Research Grant, Einaudi Institute of Economics and Finance, EIEF (EUR 4,000)
Academic careers and fertility decisions, Co-Investigator (with Maria De Paola and Vincenzo Scoppa), 2018, ANVUR Idee di Ricerca Research Grant, Italian National Agency for the Evaluation of Universities and Research Institutes, ANVUR (EUR 11,000)
Economic sanctions and informal employment (with Ali Moghaddasi Kelishomi), Labour Economics, 2024, 89, 102581 [Awarded the UNU-WIDER "Detecting and Countering Illicit Financial Flows" (Second Call) Research Grant] [Featured in: VoxEU, UNU-WIDER Research Brief]
Mothers at peace: International peacebuilding and post-conflict fertility (with Vincenzo Bove, Jessica Di Salvatore, Leandro Elia), Journal of Development Economics, 2024, 167, 103226 [Awarded the UNU-WIDER "Institutional Legacies of Violent Conflict" Research Grant] [Featured in: VoxDev]
Employment effects of economic sanctions in Iran (with Ali Moghaddasi Kelishomi), World Development, 2022, 151, 105760
The effect of parental job loss on child school dropout: evidence from the Occupied Palestinian Territories (with Michele Di Maio), Journal of Development Economics, 2019, 141, 102375 [Awarded the 2017 Etta Chiuri Prize]
Education is forbidden: the effect of the Boko Haram conflict on education in North-East Nigeria (with Eleonora Bertoni, Michele Di Maio and Vasco Molini), Journal of Development Economics, 2019, 141, 102249
The effects of conflict on fertility: evidence from the genocide in Rwanda (with Tilman Brück, Michele Di Maio and Kati Kraehnert), Demography, 2019, 56 (3): 935-968
Guaranteed minimum income and fertility (with Giuseppe Pio Dachille and Maria De Paola)
Based on admin data: How administrative data fosters young scholars' career (with A. Lepinteur) [Featured in: IZA Newsroom]
The effects of tenure-track systems on selection, productivity and fertility in Economics (with Marco G. Nieddu and Lorenzo Pandolfi) [Awarded the EEA Career Structures in Economics Research Grant], Revise & Resubmit at Labour Economics
Employment protection, job insecurity, and job mobility (with Marco Bertoni and Simone Chinetti)
Workplace peer effects in fertility decisions (with Maria De Paola and Vincenzo Scoppa) [Awarded the VisitINPS Fellowship on gender inequalities]
Legalization and Long-Term Outcomes of Immigrant Workers (with Claudio Deiana and Ludovica Giua), Demography, 2025, 11996794
Ordinal rank and the structure of ability peer effects (with Marco Bertoni), Journal of Public Economics, 2023, 217, 104797 [Previously appeared as Ordinal rank and peer composition: Two sides of the same coin?]
Employment protection and fertility decisions: the unintended consequences of the Italian Jobs Act (with Maria De Paola and Vincenzo Scoppa), Economic Policy, 2021, 36 (108): 735-773 [Awarded the 2018 EIEF Research Grant] [Featured in: Lavoce, IlFattoQuotidiano]
Academic careers and fertility decisions (with Maria De Paola and Vincenzo Scoppa), in "Teaching, Research and Academic Careers", (2022), Daniele Checchi, Tullio Jappelli, Antonio Uricchio (Eds.), Springer. [Awarded the 2018 ANVUR Research Grant]
The effect of PhD funding on post-degree research career and publication productivity, Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 2018, 80 (5): 931-950
Opium price shocks and prescription opioids in the USA (with Claudio Deiana and Ludovica Giua), Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 2024, 86(3), 449-484 [Featured in: EEA Media Briefings, Het Financieele Dagblad] [Previously appeared as The economics behind the epidemic: Afghan opium price and prescription opioids in the US]
Economic sanctions and trade flows in the neighbourhood (with Vincenzo Bove and Jessica Di Salvatore), The Journal of Law and Economics, 2023, 66(4), 671-697 [Awarded the UNU-WIDER "Detecting and Countering Illicit Financial Flows" Research Grant] [Featured in: The Conversation]
Political institutions and economic development over more than a century, Structural Change and Economic Dynamics, 2022, 61, 199-215.
Global arms trade and oil dependence (with Vincenzo Bove and Claudio Deiana), The Journal of Law, Economics, & Organization, 2018, 34 (2): 272-299 [Featured in: The Conversation, The Independent, The Wire, Money Week, Blogos]
Coups d'état and defense spending: a counterfactual analysis (with Vincenzo Bove), Public Choice, 2014, 161 (3-4): 321-344 [Online appendix]
Military in politics and budgetary allocations (with Vincenzo Bove), Journal of Comparative Economics, 2014, 42 (4): 1065-1078
Mentoring and schooling choices: experimental evidence from Italy (with Michele Giannola, Tullio Jappelli, Monica Langella, Lorenzo Pandolfi and Valeria Zurla) [Awarded the UniCredit Foundation 1st Education Research Grant]
Rebel taxation, territorial control and post-war fiscal capacity (with Andrea Arroyo Petro, Vincenzo Bove and Jessica Di Salvatore) [Awarded the UNU-WIDER Statebuilding in Conflict-Affected Contexts: The Role of Taxation Research Grant]
Is having more choices a good choice? Towards a comprehensive assessment of family policies (with Simone Chinetti, Gabriella Conti, Maria De Paola and Valeria Zurla) [Awarded the VisitINPS Fellowship on gender inequalites]
Job instability and gender inequalities within the household (with Maria De Paola, Michele Giannola, Libertad González and Lorenzo Incoronato) [Awarded the VisitINPS Fellowship on gender inequalites]
Employment Protection and Career Spillovers (with Andrew Clark, Conchita D’Ambrosio, Roberto Dell’Anno and Anthony Lepinteur) [Awarded the VisitINPS Scholar B Fellowship]
Native-Immigrant Peer Effects at Work: Evidence from Italian Firms (with Marco Bertoni and Francesco Campo) [Awarded the VisitINPS Scholar B Fellowship]
Policy impacts are in the eye of the beholder (with Marco Bertoni, Paolo Falco, Luigi Guiso and Tullio Jappelli)
Peacebuilding and infant mortality in Sub-Saharian Africa (with Vincenzo Bove, Jessica Di Salvatore and Leandro Elia)
Workplace accidents and alternative work arrangements (with Giovanni Mastrobuoni and Filippo Passerini)
A boatlift across the mediterranean: refugees in Italian aging communities (with Emanuele Ciani and Claudio Deiana)
Is temporary work a safety risk? Analyzing the impact on workplace accidents (with Lorenzo Navarini and Filippo Passerini)
Academic careers and fertility decisions (with Maria De Paola and Vincenzo Scoppa), in "Teaching, Research and Academic Careers - An Analysis of the Interrelations and Impacts", (2021), D. Checchi, T. Jappelli, A. Uricchio (Eds.), Springer Nature.
Are distributional tensions brewing in Europe and Central Asia? (with 18 co-authors), in "Toward a new social contract", (2018), M. Bussolo, M. E. Davalos, V. Peragine and R. Sundaram (Eds.), World Bank Publications, The World Bank.
Effetti dei colleghi di lavoro sulla decisione di avere figli (con Maria De Paola e Vincenzo Scoppa) in XXIII Report Annuale INPS, 2024
Le conseguenze del Jobs Act sulla fecondità delle lavoratrici italiane (with Maria De Paola and Vincenzo Scoppa) in Relazione al Parlamento, INPS, 2022
Gli effetti del Jobs Act sulle decisioni di fertilità delle donne occupate a tempo indeterminato (with Maria De Paola and Vincenzo Scoppa) in XIX Report Annuale INPS, 2020.
Andrea Arroyo Petro, Eleonora Bertoni, Marco Bertoni, Vincenzo Bove, Tilman Brück, Francesco Campo, Simone Chinetti, Emanuele Ciani, Andrew Clark, Gabriella Conti, Conchita D’Ambrosio, Giuseppe Pio Dachille, Maria De Paola, Claudio Deiana, Roberto Dell'Anno, Michele Di Maio, Jessica Di Salvatore, Leandro Elia, Paolo Falco, Michele Giannola, Ludovica Giua, Libertad González, Luigi Guiso, Lorenzo Incoronato, Tullio Jappelli, Kati Kraehnert, Monica Langella, Anthony Lepinteur, Giovanni Mastrobuoni, Ali Moghaddasi Kelishomi, Vasco Molini, Lorenzo Navarini, Marco G. Nieddu, Lorenzo Pandolfi, Filippo Passerini, Vincenzo Scoppa, Valeria Zurla
2022- Labor Economics (PhD level), University of Naples Federico II, Co-Lecturer
2022- Labor Economics (MSc level), University of Naples Federico II, Co-Lecturer
2018- Labor Economics (BA level), University of Naples Federico II, Lecturer
2018- Economic Policy (BA level), University of Naples Federico II, Lecturer
2018-2019 Macroeconomics (PhD level), University of Calabria, Lecturer
2017-2018 Economics of Conflict (PhD level), University of Naples Federico II, Co-lecturer
2017-2018 Macroeconomics I (MSc level), MEF, University of Naples Federico II, Teaching Fellow
2017-2018 Macroeconomics (BA level), Air Force Academy, Pozzuoli, Naples, Lecturer
2016-2017 Macroeconomics (BA level), University of Naples Federico II, Lecturer