Short Bio

Academic Positions:

2021-     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

Education:

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

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My other research pages: CSEF, Google Scholar, RePEc IDEAS, IZA, ResearchGate, Scopus, SSRN, Web of Science

My teaching page: docenti.unina

Research

Funded projects:

Ongoing

• 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)

• 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, INPS, (EUR 6,000)

Past

• 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 (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 (EUR 11,000)

Research Papers:

Development Economics

• Economic sanctions and informal employment (with Ali Moghaddasi Kelishomi) [Awarded the UNU-WIDER  "Detecting and Countering Illicit Financial Flows" (Second Call) Research Grant]

• Mothers at peace: International peacebuilding and post-conflict fertility (with Vincenzo Bove, Jessica Di Salvatore, Leandro Elia), Revise and Resubmit at Journal of Development Economics [Awarded the UNU-WIDER "Institutional Legacies of Violent Conflict" Research Grant] 

• 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

Labor Economics

• Legalization and Long-Term Outcomes of Immigrant Workers  (with Claudio Deiana and Ludovica Giua),  Revise & Resubmit at Demography 

• 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", (2021), 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

Political Economics

• Economic sanctions and trade flows in the neighbourhood (with Vincenzo Bove and Jessica Di Salvatore), The Journal of Law and Economics, forthcoming [Awarded the UNU-WIDER "Detecting and Countering Illicit Financial Flows" Research Grant] 

• 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

• Opium price shocks and prescription opioids in the US (with Claudio Deiana and Ludovica Giua), Revise & Resubmit at Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics [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]

Research in progress:

• 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] 

• The effects of tenure-track systems on selection, productivity and fertility in Economics (with Marco G. Nieddu and Lorenzo Pandolfi) [Awarded the EEA Career Structure in Economics Research Grant]

• Workplace peer effects in fertility decisions (with Maria De Paola and Vincenzo Scoppa)

• Guaranteed minimum income and fertility (with Giuseppe Pio D'Achille , Maria De Paola and Pasquale Tridico)

• Tenure-based severance pay, job security and labour supply (with Marco Bertoni and Simone Chinetti)

• Peacebuilding and infant mortality in Sub-Saharian Africa (with Vincenzo Bove, Jessica Di Salvatore, Leandro Elia)

• Socio-economic effects of hosting refugee centers (with Emanuele Ciani and Claudio Deiana)

• Inequality and social unrest (with Vincenzo Bove and Emanuele Ciani) 

Other contributions:

Book Chapters

• 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. 

Policy papers

• 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 INPS Annual Report, 2020. 

Co-authors:

Eleonora Bertoni, Marco Bertoni, Vincenzo Bove, Tilman Brück, Simone Chinetti, Emanuele Ciani, Giuseppe Pio Dachille, Maria De Paola, Claudio Deiana, Michele Di Maio, Jessica Di Salvatore, Leandro Elia, Michele Giannola, Ludovica Giua, Tullio Jappelli, Kati Kraehnert, Ali Moghaddasi Kelishomi, Monica Langella, Vasco Molini, Marco G. Nieddu, Lorenzo Pandolfi, Vincenzo Scoppa, Valeria Zurla

Teaching

Recent teaching modules:

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