Research

Articles

The health burden of e-waste: the impact of e-waste dumping sites on child mortality, World Bank Economic Review (2024), with S. Rawlings [pdf][blog][VoxDev][Video]

Revisiting the effects of the Ethiopian land tenure reform using satellite data. A focus on agricultural productivity, climate change mitigation and adaptation, World Development (2023), with A. Rampa [pdf]

Economic integration, industrial structure and catch-up growth: Firm-level evidence from Poland's accession to the EU, (2023), Review of International Economics,  with P. Bastos, G. Varela and J. Hagemejer [pdf][thread]

Internationally linked firms and productivity in Pakistan:  a look at the top end of the distribution (2022), Journal of Development Studies, with G. Varela [pdf] [video] [thread][blog][blog2][Newspaper]

Renewable energy technology adoption and the diffusion of information and behaviour in social networks: Evidence from Rural China, (2022), Energy Economics, 106,  with Pan H. and M. Veronesi  [pdf] [blog]

Public goods and ethnic diversity. Evidence from deforestation in Indonesia, (2019) , Economica, 86(341): 32-66, with A. Alesina and C. Gennaioli  [pdf] [data]

Crop diversification and child health. Empirical evidence from Tanzania, (2019) Ecological Economics, 158:168-179, with M. Veronesi [pdf] 

International and sectoral variation in industrial energy prices 1995-2015, (2018), Energy Economics, 78:235-258, with M. Sato, G. Singer,and D. Dussaux  [pdf] [data] 

Effect of environmental decentralization on polluting firms in India, (2018) Economic Development and Cultural Change, 67(1):55-94   [pdf][policy brief]

Tenure insecurity and investment in soil conservation. Evidence from Malawi, (2016), World Development, 78:219–229 [pdf]

Potential migrants and subjective well-being in Europe, (2014), IZA Journal of Migration, 3(24):2-18 [pdf]

Analysing the welfare-improving potential of land in the former homelands of South Africa, (2014), Agricultural Economics 45(6): 679-92 [pdf]

Market imperfections, liquidity and farm household labor allocation. The case of rural South Africa, (2012), Agricultural Economics, 43(4): 417-428 [pdf]

Pension transfers and farm household technical efficiency. Evidence from South Africa, (2011), American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 93(5):1391-1405  [pdf]

Work in progress

Assessing the role of subsidies programmes on enhancing agricultural productivity and climate resilience, with A. Chongo [Funding: IGC]

(Misperceived) Power and Women Working Outside the Home in Lebanon, with E. Badaoui and E. Matteazzi [Pre-analysis plan]

Village boundary demarcation and deforestation: Evidence from Indonesia, with F. Dubois

Air Pollution and Agricultural Productivity. Evidence from Zambian Copper Mining, with A. Chongo and F. Dubois

Off-farm labour supply and weather shocks in Nigeria: the role of gender norms, with O. Okoror, and S. Rawlings

The political economy of environmental regulation: evidence from sand mining in India, with C. Gennaioli and  Kalyan K. Kameshwara

Fostering Cooperation: The Conflict Reducing Effects of Inter-village Competition, with C. Gennaioli, T. Garg, and G. Singer. [pdf]

The impact of export promotion policies on export performance, with G. Varela

Ethnic party representation and firm performance in India, with Neha Hui

Does climate change pose a risk to competitiveness? - Global firm level evidence with Antoine Dechezleprêtre, Ralf Martin and Misato Sato

Family values and the growth of firms, with A. Jo

Book chapters

A regional dynamic general equilibrium model with historical calibration: a counterfactual exercise, (2018) in The New Generation of Computable General Equilibrium Models edited by F. Perali and Scandizzo P., with R. Magnani and F. Perali. 

Climate-resilient development in agrarian economies (2016) in The Economics of Climate-Resilient Development, editor S. Frankhauser, Edwar Elgar, with Bezabih M., Singer G. and McLaren C. 

Valutazione dell’impatto socio-economico delle politiche regionali sulla crescita della Valle D’Aosta nel periodo 1963-2002, (2008) in La Valle d’Aosta e l’Europa, S. Noto (editor), Olschki vol. 1, Firenze with Perali F. 

Simulating the impact on the local economy of Alternatives Management Scenarios for Natural Areas, (2006), in Integrated assessment and management of public resources, eds. Cooper, Perali and Veronesi, Edward Elgar with De Agostini P., Pecci F., Perali F. and Baggio M.