Working Papers

Race and Science, June 2024 

Dealing with Adversity: Religiosity or Science? Evidence from the Great Influenza Pandemic (with Enrico Berkes, Davide Coluccia, Mara Squicciarini), July 2025  [CEPR wp]  

Coverage: CentrePiece Magazine

Return Innovation: The Knowledge Spillovers of the British Migration to the United States, 1870-1940 (with Davide Coluccia), May 2025 

Coverage: CentrePiece Magazine

Polarized Technologies (with Marta Morando), April 2025 

Racial Discrimination and Innovation: Evidence from US Inventors, 1895–1925 (with Davide Coluccia, Sebastian Ottinger), October 2023 

Published Papers

The Family Origin of the Math Gender Gap is a White Affluent Phenomenon (with David Figlio, Paola Giuliano, Paola Sapienza)  [Final draft]  [Journal article]  [NBER wp]  [CEPR wp]

AEA Papers & Proceedings 111 (2021): 179-183  

Coverage: NBER Reporter, UCLA Anderson Review

Born in the Family: Preferences For Boys and the Gender Gap in Math (with David Figlio, Paola Giuliano, Paola Sapienza)  [Final draft]  [Journal article]  [NBER wp]  [CEPR wp]

Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 183 (2021): 175-188    

Coverage: Corriere della Sera, Kellogg Insights, NBER Reporter, Quartz, UCLA Daily Bruin, UCLA Newsroom, UCLA Anderson Review, VoxEU

Other Writings

Return Innovation: How Emigration Shapes the Diffusion of New Technologies (with Davide Coluccia), LSE British Politics and Policy Blog (reprinted in: LSE USA 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