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 Field of specialization

Industrial Economics, Political Economy, Empirical Economics, Experimental  and Behavioural Economics.

Current position

Assistant Professor (RTT), Link Campus University

Previous positions

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

Postdoc at Masaryk University with a Marie Curie fellowship

Additional positions

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 impact of Ukraine’s war outbreak on green preferences in Europe, with Enrico De Ecclesiis, Fabrizio Patriarca, Ambio, 2025. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13280-025-02173-1

Exploring the multifaceted relationship between environmental attitudes and political voting, with Enrico De Ecclesiis, Fabrizio Patriarca, 230, 2025, Ecological Economics. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolecon.2025.108518

Absolute versus relative poverty and wealth: cooperation in the presence of between-group inequality,  with Abhijit Ramalingam,  The B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis and Policy, 25(1): 99-113, 2025. https://doi.org/10.1515/bejeap-2024-0350

The lasting impact of external shocks on political opinions and populist voting, with Steven Stillman, Isabelle Sin, Economic Inquiry, 62(1): 349–374, 2024. 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

Economic Inequality, Social Capital and the Role of Merit and Luck: An Experimental Study, with Ananish Chaudhuri, Abhijit Ramalingam, Sanket Sen, currently R&R at Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization.

Does A Lack of Trust Boost Populist Political Parties in Europe? Causal Evidence from Three Methodologies, with Jessica Di Cocco, Rama Dasi Mariani, Steven Stillman. Published as CESifo Working Paper No. 11394.

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

Is Democracy Alright? The Impact of External Shocks on the Long-Run Political Preferences of Adolescents, with Steven Stillman.

Narratives of Migration and Political Polarization: Private Preferences, Public Preferences and Social Media, with Michael Bayerlein, Gianluca Grimalda, Tommaso Reggiani. Published as IZA Discussion Paper No. 17749, currently under review at The Economic Journal.

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.

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