Publications in international journals

• Chiappori P.A., Fiorio C., Galichon A. and Verzillo S. (202X) "Assortative Matching on Income", Econometrica (Conditionally Accepted); 

• Montanelli S., Picascia S., Salini S. and Verzillo S. (202X)  "The Atlas of Data Science Research" IEEE Access (Conditionally Accepted)

• Canzian G., Mazzarella G., Ronchail L., Verboven F. and Verzillo S. (2024) "Evaluating the Impact of Price Caps - Evidence from the European Roam-Like-at-Home Regulation", International Journal of Industrial Organization (forthcoming), DOI 10.1016/j.ijindorg.2024.103115;

• Berta P., Bratti M., Fiorio C.V., Pisoni E. and Verzillo S. (2024) "Administrative border effects in Covid-19 related mortality",  Journal of the Royal Statistical Society - Series A (forthcoming), DOI 10.1093/jrsssa/qnae091;

• Di Novi C., Paruolo P. and Verzillo S. (2023) "Does labour protection influence mental-health responses to employment shocks? Evidence on older workers in Europe", Economic Modelling, Vol. 126, 106406; 

• Checchi, D., De Fraja, G., and Verzillo, S. (2021) "Incentives and Careers in Academia: Theory and Empirical Analysis", The Review of Economics and Statistics, Vol. 103, Issue 4, pp. 786-802;

• Rossi C., Berta P., Curello S., Lovaglio P.G., Magoni M., Metra M., Roccaro A.M., Verzillo S. and Vittadini G. (2021) "The impact of COVID-19 pandemic on AMI and Stroke mortality in Lombardy: Evidences from the epicenter of the pandemic", PLOS ONE, 16(10) e0257910;

• Berta P., Lovaglio P.G. and Verzillo S. (2021) "How have casemix, cost and hospital stay of inpatients in the last year of life changed over the past decade? Evidence from Italy", Health Policy, Vol 125, Issue 8, pp. 1031-1039;

• Checchi D., Ciolfi A., De Fraja G., Mazzotta I., Verzillo S. (2021) "Have you read this? An empirical comparison of the British REF peer review and the Italian VQR bibliometric algorithm", Economica, Vol. 88, Issue 352, pp. 1107-1129; 

• Berta P., Lovaglio, P.G., Paruolo P. and Verzillo S. (2020) "A Bivariate Prediction Approach for Adapting the Health Care System Response to the Spread of COVID-19", PLOS ONE, 15(10) e0240150;

• Cristofoli, D., Trivellato B. and Verzillo S. (2019) "Network Management as a Contingent Activity. A configurational Analysis of managerial behaviours in different networks settings”, Public Management Review, Vol. 21, Issue 12, pp. 1775-1800;

• Bratti M. and Verzillo S. (2019) “The ‘gravity’ of quality: Research quality and the attractiveness of universities in Italy”, Regional Studies, Vol. 53, Issue 10, pp. 1385-1396;

• Checchi, D., De Fraja, G. and Verzillo, S. (2018) “Selections from Ordered Sets”, Social Choice and Welfare, Vol 50(4), pp. 677-703;

• Fiorio, C., Gorli, M., Verzillo, S. (2018) “Evaluating Organizational Change in Healthcare: the Patient-Centered Hospital model”, BMC Health Services Research, Vol. 18(1), 95;

• Berta P., Martini G., Levaggi R. and Verzillo S. (2017) "The Redistributive Effects of Copayment in Outpatients Prescriptions: Evidence from Lombardy", BMC Health Services Research, Vol. 17 (1), 336;

• Berta P., Bossi M., Verzillo S. (2017) “%Cem: A SAS Macro to Perform Coarsened Exact Matching”, Journal of Statistical Computation and Simulation, Vol. 87 (2), pp. 227-238;

• Verzillo, S., Santoro, A., Mezzanzanica, M. (2017) “Family Splitting versus Joint Taxation: a case-study”, Economia Politica - Journal of Analytical and Institutional Economics, Vol. 34 (2), pp. 337-354;

• Lovaglio, P.G., Vacca, G., Verzillo, S. (2016) “Human Capital Estimation in Higher Education”, Advances in Data Analysis and Classification, Vol. 10 (4), pp. 465-489;

• Lovaglio, P.G., Verzillo, S. (2016) “Heterogeneous Economic Returns to Higher Education: Evidence from Italy”, Quality and Quantity, Vol. 50 (2), pp. 791-822;

• Lovaglio, P.G., Verzillo, S., Mezzanzanica, M. (2011) “Estimation of Educational Returns using University and Labour Market Administrative Archives”, Advances and Applications in Statistics. Vol. 23 (2), pp. 77-105;

Publications in Italian refereed journals

• Battistin, E., Checchi, D., Verzillo, S. (2014) “The Effects of Decentralization on Academic Recruitment in Italy”, Rassegna Italiana di Valutazione, Vol. 58, pp. 50-79;

• Verzillo S. (2010) “The Rate of Return to Schooling: a Growth Mixed Model Approach”, Quaderni di Economia del Lavoro, Vol. 92, pp. 63-81; 

Working Papers

• Canzian, G., Crivellaro, E., Duso, T., Ferrara, A., Sasso, A. and Verzillo, S. (2025) "The Impact of Financial Support to firms During Crises: The Case of Covid-Aid in EU", DIW Working Paper N. 2116, CESifo Working Paper N. 11835 and C.E.P.R. Discussion Paper N. 20171 (R&R at Journal of Economic Behavior and Organizations);  

• Checchi, D., De Fraja, G., Marchiori, C. , Minelli, E. and Verzillo S. (2024) "How to Pay for Scientific Research", C.E.P.R. Discussion Paper N. 19083, (submitted);

• Ghirelli, C., Havari, E., Meroni, E. and Verzillo S. (2023) "The Long-Term Causal Effects of Winning an ERC Grant", JRC133001, IZA Discussion Paper N. 16108 and Banco de Espana - Documentos de Trabajo. N. 2313 (submitted); 

• Chiappori P.A., Fiorio C., Galichon A. and Verzillo S. (2022) "Assortative Matching on Income", Human Capital and Economic Opportunity Global Working Group WP N. 2022-006 (Conditionally Accepted at Econometrica); 

• Di Novi C., Paruolo P. and Verzillo S. (2022) "The Role of Employment Protection Legislation Regimes in Shaping the Impact of Job Disruption on Older Workers’ Mental Health in Times of COVID-19", HEDG, The University of York WP. 22/03 and SSRN Research Paper N. 4031714 (Revised version published, Economic Modelling); 

• Berta P., Bratti M., Fiorio C.V., Pisoni E. and Verzillo S. (2021) "Administrative border effects in Covid-19 related mortality", IZA Discussion Paper N. 14930, HEDG, The University of York WP 21/21 and SSRN Research Paper N. 3962989  (Revised version forthcoming at Journal of the Royal Statistical Society - Series A);

• Canzian G., Mazzarella G., Ronchail L., Verboven F. and Verzillo S. (2021) "Evaluating the Impact of Price Caps - Evidence from the European Roam-Like-at-Home Regulation", C.E.P.R. Discussion Paper N. 16554 and CESifo Working Paper N. 9303 (Revised version forthcoming at International Journal of Industrial Organization);

• Rossi C., Berta P., Curello S., Lovaglio P.G., Magoni M., Metra M., Roccaro A.M., Verzillo S. and Vittadini G. (2021) "The impact of COVID-19 pandemic on AMI and Stroke mortality in Lombardy: Evidences from the epicenter of the pandemic", medrXiv (revised version published, PLOS One);

• Berta, P., Lovaglio, P.G., Paruolo, P., Verzillo, S. (2020) "Real Time Forecasting of Covid-19 Intensive Care Units demand ". HEDG, The University of York WP 20/16;

• Checchi D., Ciolfi A., De Fraja G., Mazzotta I., Verzillo S. (2019) "Have you read this? An empirical comparison of the British REF peer review and the Italian VQR bibliometric algorithm".  C.E.P.R. Discussion Paper N. 13521  and IZA Discussion Paper 12155 ( revised version published, Economica );

• Berta P., De Fraja, G., Verzillo S. (2018) “Optimal Healthcare Contracts: Theory and Empirical Evidence from Italy”. C.E.P.R. Discussion Paper N. 13357 and HEDG, The University of York WP 18/33 ( R&R at Journal of Economics and Management Strategy );

• Fiorio C. and Verzillo S. (2018) “Looking in Your Partner’s Pocket Before Saying 'Yes!' Assortative Mating and Income Inequality". DEMM Working Paper 2018-02, Department of Economics, Management and Quantitative Methods at Università degli Studi di Milano (mimeo);

• Bratti M. and Verzillo S. (2017) “The Gravity of Quality: Research Quality and Universities’ Attractivity in Italy”. IZA Discussion Paper 11026, Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) (revised version published, Regional Studies);

• Berta P., Bossi M., Verzillo S. (2015) “%Cem: A SAS Macro to Perform Coarsened Exact Matching”. DEMM - Working Paper 2015-22, Department of Economics, Management and Quantitative Methods at University of Milan (revised version published, Journal of Statistical Computation and Simulation);

• Checchi, D., De Fraja, G., Verzillo, S. (2014) “Publish or Perish: An Analysis of the Academic Job Market in Italy”. IZA Discussion Paper 8345, Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) (revised version published, The Review of Economics and Statistics);

• Checchi, D., De Fraja, G., Verzillo, S. (2014) “And the Winners Are... An Axiomatic Approach to Selection from a Set”. IZA Discussion Paper 8344, Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) (revised version published, Social Choice and Welfare); 

Code Snippets

• CIF - Cointegrated ICU Forecasting R Tool introduced in Berta et al. 2020, PLOS ONE is publicly available as CIF Shiny App

• orderly - Stata module to compute the index of orderliness proposed in Checchi et al. (2014) IZA WP N. 8345 (R&R The Stata Journal - available upon request)

• Coarsened Exact Matching for SAS, with Paolo Berta, and Matteo Bossi (published in Journal of Statistical Computation and Simulation). %CEM SAS code is available from the official CEM repository at Harvard University