Working Papers


Race and Science 

Outstanding Paper Award, 4th Discrimination and Diversity Workshop, 2024


Polarized Technologies (with Marta Morando)  

Coverage: CentrePiece Magazine


When Shocks Divide: Religiosity and Science in the Time of Adversity (with E. Berkes, D. Coluccia, and M. Squicciarini)  [CEPR wp]

Coverage: CentrePiece Magazine


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

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, 1882–1936 (with D. Coluccia and S. Ottinger)






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







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