Short Bio

Academic Positions:

2018- 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

Education:

2014 PhD in Economics, University of Essex, UK

2012 Doctorate in Economics, University of Naples Parthenope

2008 Master in Economics and Finance (MEF), University of Naples Federico II, Italy

Recent Awards and Grants:

2021 Research grant, UNU-WIDER, principal investigator

2021 Research grant, University of Naples Federico II, co-principal investigator

2020 Visitinps fellowship, INPS, principal investigator

2019 Research grant, EIEF, principal investigator

2018 Italian National Scientific Qualification as associate professor of Economics (13/A1) and Economic Policy (13/A2)

2018 Research grant, ANVUR, co-investigator

2017 Etta Chiuri Prize, Italian Society of Public Economics (SIEP)

My full CV

Research

Journal articles:

• The effect of parental job loss on child school dropout: evidence from the Occupied Palestinian Territories (with M. 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 E. Bertoni, M. Di Maio and V. Molini)

Journal of Development Economics, 2019, 141, 102249

• The effects of conflict on fertility: evidence from the genocide in Rwanda (with T. Brück, M. Di Maio and K. Kraehnert)

Demography, 2019, 56 (3): 935-968

• Global arms trade and oil dependence (with V. Bove and C. Deiana)

The Journal of Law, Economics, & Organization, 2018, 34 (2): 272-299

[Featured in: The Conversation, The Independent, The Wire, Money Week, Blogos]

• The effect of PhD funding on post-degree research career and publication productivity

Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 2018, 80 (5): 931-950

• Coups d'état and defense spending: a counterfactual analysis (with V. Bove)

Public Choice, 2014, 161 (3-4): 321-344

[Online appendix]

• Military in politics and budgetary allocations (with V. Bove),

Journal of Comparative Economics, 2014, 42 (4): 1065-1078

Research papers:

• Fertility decisions and employment protection: The unintended consequences of the Italian Jobs Act (with M. De Paola and V. Scoppa)

Revise and Resubmit at Economic Policy

[Awarded the 2018 EIEF Research Grant] [Featured in: Lavoce, IlFattoQuotidiano]

• Ordinal rank and peer composition: Two sides of the same coin? (with M. Bertoni)

Revise and Resubmit at Review of Economics and Statistics

[Previously appeared as Rank concerns, peer effects, and ability tracking in university. Evidence from a randomized experiment]

• Opium price shocks and prescription opioids in the US (with C. Deiana and L. Giua)

[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]

• Academic careers and fertility decisions (with M. De Paola and V. Scoppa)

[Awarded the 2018 ANVUR Research Grant]

• Employment effects of economic sanctions (with Ali Moghaddasi Kelishomi)

Research in progress:

• Trade Flows in the Shadow of Economic Sanctions (with V. Bove and J. Di Salvatore) [Awarded the UNU-WIDER Research Grant]

• The socio-economic impact of hosting refugee centers on Italian municipalities (with E. Ciani and C. Deiana)

• Microeconomic effects of peacekeeping on health (with V. Bove, J. Di Salvatore, L. Elia)

• Conflict, fertility and the impact of peacekeeping (with V. Bove, J. Di Salvatore, L. Elia)

Book chapters:

• 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.

My other research pages: CSEF, Google Scholar, IDEAS, IZA, ResearchGate, SSRN

Teaching

Recent teaching modules:

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

My teaching page: docenti.unina