Refereed Journal Publications
2021, "COVID-19 policy responses, mobility, and food prices", (with S. Dietrich, V. Giuffrida, G. Schmerzeck), American Journal of Agricultural Economics, forthcoming.
2021, "How social assistance affects subjective Well-being: Lessons from Kyrgyzstan", (with F. Gassmann, J. Waidler), Journal of Development Studies, forthcoming.
2021, "Chinese official finance and political participation in Africa", (with F. Iacoella, L. Metzger and M. Sanfilippo), European Economic Review, 136, July 2021, 103741
2020, "Chinese development assistance and household welfare in Sub-Saharan Africa", (with L. Metzger and M. Sanfilippo), World Development, 129, May 2020, 104909.
2019, “Manufacturing Growth Accelerations in Developing Countries” (with N. Haraguchi, M. Sanfilippo and A. Shingal), Review of Development Economics, 23(4): 1696-1724.
2019, “Redistributive Preferences and Protests in Latin America,” (with P. Justino), Journal of Conflict Resolution, 63(9): 2128-2154.
2019, “What factors drive successful industrialization? Evidence and implications for developing countries” (with M. Sanfilippo and N. Haraguchi), Structural Change and Economic Dynamics, 49(C): 266-276.
2018 “Welfare Spending and Political Conflict in Latin America, 1970 - 2010” (with P. Justino), World Development, 107, 98-110.
2018, “Taxation and inequality in developing countries: Lessons from the recent experience of Latin America”. Journal of International Development, 30(2): 256-273.
2018, “Cyclicality of Fiscal Policy in Latin America over the period 1990 - 2015”, Review of Development Economics, 22(1): 67-90.
2017, “Catching-up, structural transformation, and inequality: industry-level evidence from Asia”, (with Donghyun Park and Marco Sanfilippo), Industrial and Corporate Change, 26 (4): 555–570.
2016, “Time Discounting and Credit Market Access in a Large Scale Cash Transfer Program” (with S. Handa, C. Halpern, A. Pettifor, H. Thirumurthy), Journal of African Economics, 25 (3): 367-387.
2016, “Inequality, Power and Participation – Revisiting the Links”, (with J. Gaventa), IDS Bulletin, 47 (5): 11-29.
2015, “Is it possible to adjust ‘with a human face’? Differences in fiscal consolidation strategies between Hungary versus Iceland”, Comparative Economic Studies, 57: 623-6.
2015, “Structural change and wage inequality in the manufacturing sector: long run evidence from East Asia” (with M. Sanfilippo), Oxford Development Studies, 43(2): 212-231
2015, “Lessons from the recent economic crisis: the Australian household stimulus package”, International Review of Applied Economics, 29(3): 309-327.
2014, “The Impact of Uruguay’s 2007 Tax Reform on Equity and Efficiency”, Development Policy Review, 32(6): 701-714.
2014, “The Competing Influences of Initial Depressive Symptomatology and Early Alliance on Early Outcome: A Preliminary Study” (with G. Alberti, A. Martorano), Research in Psychotherapy: Psychopathology, Process and Outcome, 16(2): 109–118.
2014, “Child Well-being in Advanced Economies in the Late 2000s” (with L. Natali, C. de Neubourg and J. Bradshaw), Social Indicators Research, 118(1): 247-283.
2013, “Children’s Subjective Well-being in Rich Countries” (with L. Natali, C. de Neubourg and J. Bradshaw), Child Indicator Research, 6(4): 619-635.
2012, “Innovative Features in Anti-Poverty Programs: An impact evaluation of Chile Solidario on households and children” (with M. Sanfilippo), Journal of International Development, 24(8): 1030 - 1041.