Working Papers
Race and Science, June 2024
Dealing with Adversity: Religiosity or Science? Evidence from the Great Influenza Pandemic (with Enrico Berkes, Davide Coluccia, and Mara Squicciarini), July 2025 [CEPR wp]
Return Innovation: The Knowledge Spillovers of the British Migration to the United States, 1870-1940 (with Davide Coluccia), May 2025
Polarized Technologies (with Marta Morando), April 2025
Racial Discrimination and Innovation (with Davide Coluccia and Sebastian Ottinger), October 2023
Published Papers
The Family Origin of the Math Gender Gap is a White Affluent Phenomenon (with David Figlio, Paola Giuliano, and Paola Sapienza) [Final draft] [Journal article] [NBER wp] [CEPR wp]
AEA Papers & Proceedings 111 (2021): 179-183
Born in the Family: Preferences For Boys and the Gender Gap in Math (with David Figlio, Paola Giuliano, and Paola Sapienza) [Final draft] [Journal article] [NBER wp] [CEPR wp]
Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 183 (2021): 175-188
Other Writings
Return Innovation: How Emigration Shapes the Diffusion of New Technologies (with Davide Coluccia), LSE British Politics and Policy Blog, May 2025
UCL Department of Economics Research Spotlight, September 2024
Designing a Mentoring Program for PhD Applicants: Lessons from the Applicant Mentoring Programme (AMP) (with Arnaud Dyèvre and Yannick Schindler), October 2023
The 1918 Influenza Pandemic Made Some People More Religious and Others More Innovative (with Enrico Berkes, Davide Coluccia, and Mara Squicciarini), LSE USA Politics and Policy Blog, May 2023