Enrico Rubolino

I am a post-doc at the University of Lausanne (UNIL). I completed my PhD at the University of Essex in 2021, and I was a visiting PhD at UC Berkeley.

My research interests lie in the field of public and labor economics, with a focus on studying behavioral responses to tax policies and the effects of public policies on gender inequality, intergenerational mobility, and educational achievement.

My research has been recognized with several awards, including the IIPF Young Economist Award from the International Institute of Public Finance, the Young Labor Economist Award from the Italian Labor Economics Association, the Early Career Research Award from the Upjohn Institute, and the SIEP Best Paper Award from the Italian Society of Public Economics.

E-mail: enrico.rubolino@unil.ch

Curriculum Vitae

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Publications:

Austerity Harmed Student Achievement The Economic Journal 134: 659, 1199-1227, April 2024 (with Caterina Pavese) [Online Appendix] [Replication files]

Media coverage: Lavoce; RAI 3 radio interview (from 01:35:00)

Does Weak Enforcement Deter Tax Progressivity? Journal of Public Economics 219: 104833, March 2023 [Online Appendix] [Replication files] [Slides]

Award: Robert Schalzenbach Foundation Research Grant

Knocking on Parents' Doors: Regulation and Intergenerational Mobility The Journal of Human Resources 57(2): 525-554, March 2022 (with Sauro Mocetti and Giacomo Roma) [Online Appendix]

Media coverage: VoxEU; eticaeconomia; JHR research highlight

Tax Progressivity and Top Incomes: Evidence from Tax Reforms The Journal of Economic Inequality 18(3): 261-289, 2020 (with Daniel Waldenström) [Online Appendix] [Replication files]

Media coverage: VoxEU; SBS radio interview; NBC News

Trends and Gradients in Top Tax Elasticities: Cross-Country Evidence, 1900-2014 International Tax and Public Finance 26(3): 457–485, 2019 (with Daniel Waldenström) [Online Appendix] [Replication files]

Media coverage: VoxEU
Working papers:

Market Externalities of Tax Evasion (with Irene Di Marzio and Sauro Mocetti)

Slides

Taxation and Mobility: Evidence from Tax Decentralization in Italy (with Tommaso Giommoni)

Award: 2018 SIEP (Italian Society of Public Economics) Prize (a previous version of this paper)CESifo Working Paper No. 10655SlidesMedia coverage: Local Opportunities Lab

Taxing the Gender Gap: Labor Market Effects of a Payroll Tax Cut for Women in Italy

Award: 2022 IIPF Young Economist Award; 2022 ``Carlo Dell'Arringa" Young Labor Economist Award; 2020 Early Career Research Award (W.E. Upjohn Institute) CESifo Working Paper No. 9671; VistINPS Working Paper 2022/47; UNIL Working Paper No. 2022/01; Upjohn Institute Working Paper No. 23-386.SlidesMedia coverage & policy reports: Il Foglio; Italian Ministry of Economy and Finance Report on Gender Inequalities ("Bilancio di Genere 2022"), p. 52-55; inGenere; Lavoce; Quotidiano Nazionale; Domani; Upjohn Institute Policy Brief.

The Cost of Gender Identity Norms: Evidence from a Spouse Tax Credit (with Tommaso Giommoni)

Dondena Working Paper No. 153 Slides

What Determines the Capital Share Over the Long-Run of History? (with Erik Bengtsson and Daniel Waldenström)

IZA DP No. 13199; WID.World Working Paper.

Selected works in progress:

The Carnegie Elasticity: Behavioral Responses to Sudden Wealth (with Marius Brülhart, Aurélien Eyquem, and Isabel Martínez) [Slides available upon request]
Taxing Cross-Border Commuters (with Emanuele Di Carlo and Sergio Galletta) [Slides available upon request]
For (Un)Love or (of) Taxes? The Impact of the 1927 Bachelor Tax on the Marriage Market
Labor Supply and Firm Responses to Relative Pay Differences (with Edoardo Di Porto and Tommaso Oliviero) [Awarded with the 2021 VisitINPS Fellowship] [Slides available upon request]
The Gender Wage Gap and Pro-Female Labor Market Policies (with Sonia Bhalotra and Roland Rathelot) [Awarded with the 2022 VisitINPS Fellowship] [Slides available upon request]
Do Gender Quotas Improve Female Labor Market Outcomes? (with Edoardo Acabbi and Silvia Vannutelli) [Awarded with the 2023 VisitINPS Fellowship]
Taxing Big Firms' Extra Profits: Evidence from the Robin Tax (with Luisa Loiacono, Leonzio Rizzo, and Riccardo Secomandi) [Awarded with the 2024 VisitINPS Fellowship]

References:

Sonia Bhalotra (University of Warwick)
Marius Brülhart (University of Lausanne)
Sauro Mocetti (Bank of Italy)
Emmanuel Saez (University of California, Berkeley)