Current academic Affiliations: 

• Assistant Professor (Tenure Track, RTT), Sapienza University

• IZA  Affiliate, Bonn 

• GLO  Affiliate

• New: Winner of UniCredit Foundation Modigliani Research Grant 15^ed    

Previous Position: 

• Junior Assistant Professor (Rtd-A), Sapienza University

• Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Sapienza University.   

• Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of  Catania.

•  Visiting Scholar at BAFFI CAREFIN −CLEAN Unit -  Bocconi University; Milan, Italy.

I received Ph.D. in Economics, Management and Statistics from the University of Messina under the supervision of  Francesco Drago  in November 2019. 

I am interested in  Economics of Crime, Policy Evaluation  and Applied Microeconometrics