Working Papers
Race and Science, June 2024
Outstanding Paper Award, 4th Discrimination and Diversity Workshop, 2024
Polarized Technologies (with M. Morando), March 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
Dealing with Adversity: Religiosity or Science? Evidence from the Great Influenza Pandemic (with E. Berkes, D. Coluccia, and M. Squicciarini), July 2025 [CEPR wp]
Coverage: CentrePiece Magazine
Racial Discrimination and Innovation: Evidence from US Inventors, 1895–1925 (with D. Coluccia and S. Ottinger), November 2023 (Updated 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
Teenage Innovators (with F. Denker and J. Van Reenen)
The Cost of Identity (with S. Manfredi and M. Morando)
Discussions
Migrant Voices (by Martín Fernández and Etienne Bacher), 15th Annual Conference on Immigration in OECD Countries
Property Rights and Innovation Dynamism: The Role of Women Inventors (by Ruveyda Gozen), Bessemer Symposium on the Economics of Innovation
Interviews (by Elliott Ash, Soumitra Shukla, and Jason Sockin), 2nd GEP Labour Economics and Globalisation Workshop
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
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