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 Field of specialization

Experimental and Behavioural Economics, Political Economy,  and the Economics of Migration.

Current position

Assistant Professor (RTDA), Free University of Bozen-Bolzano

Previous position

Postdoc at Masaryk University with a Marie Curie fellowship

Additional positions

Researcher at Ciseo, Sapienza Experimental Economics Lab

Member of the Ineq group on the study of inequalities at Sapienza University of Rome

Research Fellow at GLO (Global Labour Organization)

Researcherer at MUEEL (Masaryk University Experimental Economics Laboratory)

Publications

The lasting impact of external shocks on political opinions and populist voting, with Steven Stillman, Isabelle Sin, Economic Inquiry, 2023, https://doi.org/10.1111/ecin.13184. Previous versions of this paper were published as CESifo Working Paper and IZA Discussion Paper.

Immigration and Voting, with Rama Dasi Mariani and Fabrizio Patriarca. In: Zimmermann, K.F. (eds) Handbook of Labor, Human Resources and Population Economics. Springer, Cham, 2023. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-57365-6_443-1

An exploratory study of populism: the municipality-level predictors of electoral outcomes in Italy,  with Fabrizio Patriarca, Economia Politica, 2020, 37(2): 833–875. Read link: https://rdcu.be/b5Kzd.

Hate at first sight? Dynamic aspects of the electoral impact of migration: the case of Ukip, with Rama Dasi Mariani and Fabrizio Patriarca, Journal of Population Economics,  2020, 33(1): 1-32. Read link: https://rdcu.be/bXnWI. Previous versions published on SPRU WP Series and as GLO DP. A policy note based on this article was published on GLO website.

L’ostilità verso l’immigrazione, with Rama Dasi Mariani and Melissa Mongiardo, Rubbettino Editore, Collana Fondazione Di Vagno, 2019.

What meets the eye: the effect of the presence of immigrants on personal attitudes on migrations in Europe, with Rama Dasi Mariani and Fabrizio Patriarca, Economics Bulletin, Vol. 38 No. 1, 2018.

Intergruppi parlamentari, rappresentanza fluida e recenti evoluzioni del parlamentarismo, with Elena Paparella and Rama Dasi Mariani, Costituzionalismo, No. 2, 2017.

Working papers

I and we: behavioural spillovers between individual and social tasks, with Shaun Hargreaves Heap, Abhijit Ramalingam, Chris Starmer, Awarded a grant from the ESRC Network for Integrated Behavioural Science (Co-I, Oct 2015) 

Narrative based information: is it the facts or their packaging that matters?, with Shaun Hargreaves Heap, Aikaterini Karadimitropoulou. Published as MUNI Econ Working Paper, n.2021-08.

Group identification and giving: in-group love, out-group hate and their crowding out, with Shaun Hargreaves Heap, Abhijit Ramalingam. Published as MUNI Econ Working Paper, n.2021-07.

Narratives on migration and political polarization: How the emphasis in narratives can drive us apart, with Michael Bayerlein, Gianluca Grimalda, Tommaso Reggiani. Published as MUNI Econ Working Paper, n.2023-07.

Cooperation in the presence of between-group inequality, with Abhijit Ramalingam, submitted to JEBO.

Does lack of trust boost populist attitudes and votes?, with Jessica Di Cocco, Rama Dasi Mariani, Steven Stillman.

Strategic use of social media by political parties: evidence from Italy, with Giacomo Battiston, Federico Boffa, Steven Stillman.

Grants and awards

2023 - GACR Grant,  with Martin Guzi, Milos Fisar, Aikaterini Karadimitropoulou, and Alena Kluknavská, funded by the Czech Science Foundation for the project Going back to ‘animal spirits’: how narratives influence economic expectations, PI, 170000€.

2019 - Marie Curie Fellowship, funded with the programme OP VVV Mobility MSCA-IF of the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sport of Czech Republic, based on the Seal of Excellence from the European Commission for the project "Hostility towards immigrants and political statements", 2018.

2017 - Winner of the Di Vagno prize for research projects for young researchers for a project titled "Social Democracy and Hostility towards Migrations: failures of integration policies or media bias?" with Rama Dasi Mariani, Melissa Mongiardo.  Awarded a grant of 40,000€ (PI, Aug 2017).

2015 - Grant of 3,000 pounds from NIBS for a project on Status and Cooperation with Shaun Hargreaves Heap, Abhijit Ramalingam, Chris Starmer (Co-I, Oct 2015). 

Education

2017 - Ph.D. in Economics at Sapienza University of Rome

2015 - Visiting research assistant at King's College London, under the supervision of prof. Shaun Hargreaves Heap

2013 - Master in Economics at Sapienza University of Rome