Working Papers
Race and Science, June 2024
Outstanding Paper Award, 4th Discrimination and Diversity Workshop, 2024
When Shocks Divide: Religiosity and Science in the Time of Adversity (with E. Berkes, D. Coluccia, and M. Squicciarini), May 2026 [CEPR wp]
Coverage: CentrePiece Magazine
Polarized Technologies (with M. Morando), April 2026
Return Innovation: The Knowledge Spillovers of the British Migration to the United States, 1870-1940 (with D. Coluccia), October 2025
Young Scholar Award for the Best Immigration Economics Paper, Conference on Immigration in OECD Countries, 2025
Coverage: CentrePiece Magazine
Racial Discrimination and Innovation: Evidence from U.S. Inventors, 1895–1925 (with D. Coluccia and S. Ottinger), October 2023 (New draft coming soon)
Published Papers
The Family Origin of the Math Gender Gap is a White Affluent Phenomenon (with D. Figlio, P. Giuliano, and P. 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 D. Figlio, P. Giuliano, and P. 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
Selected Work in Progress
Creating New Businesses in America: The Determinants of and Returns to Entrepreneurship (with R. Chetty, M. Smith, J. Van Reenen, O. Zidar, and E. Zwick)
The Supply of Ideas
This project is supported by a Modigliani Research Grant awarded by the UniCredit and Universities Foundation (2026)
Teenage Innovators (with F. Denker and J. Van Reenen)
The Cost of Identity: Theory and Experimental Evidence from the Energy Sector (with S. Manfredi and M. Morando)
Discussions
Migrant Voices (by M. Fernández and E. Bacher), 15th Annual Conference on Immigration in OECD Countries
Property Rights and Innovation Dynamism: The Role of Women Inventors (by R. Gozen), Bessemer Symposium on the Economics of Innovation
Interviews (by E. Ash, S. Shukla, and J. Sockin), 2nd GEP Labour Economics and Globalisation Workshop
Other Writings
Polarization is Not a Myth: It Is Reflected in the Creation and Diffusion of New Technologies (with M. Morando), LSE United States Politics and Policy Blog, March 2026
Return Innovation: How Emigration Shapes the Diffusion of New Technologies (with D. Coluccia), LSE British Politics and Policy Blog (reprinted in: LSE United States Politics and Policy Blog), May 2025
Designing a Mentoring Program for PhD Applicants: Lessons from the Applicant Mentoring Programme (AMP) (with A. Dyèvre and Y. Schindler), October 2023
The 1918 Influenza Pandemic Made Some People More Religious and Others More Innovative (with E. Berkes, D. Coluccia, and M. Squicciarini), LSE United States Politics and Policy Blog, May 2023