Working Papers
Labour Dissertation Prize, Italian Association of Labor Economists (2026)
Outstanding Paper Award, 4th Discrimination and Diversity Workshop (2024)
Return Innovation: The Knowledge Spillovers of the British Migration to the United States, 1870-1940 (with Davide Coluccia)
Young Scholar Award for the Best Immigration Economics Paper, Conference on Immigration in OECD Countries (2025)
Coverage: CentrePiece Magazine
Polarized Technologies (with Marta Morando)
Coverage: CentrePiece Magazine
When Shocks Divide: Religiosity and Science in the Time of Adversity (with Enrico Berkes, Davide Coluccia, and Mara Squicciarini) [CEPR wp]
Coverage: CentrePiece Magazine
Racial Discrimination and Innovation: Evidence from U.S. Inventors, 1882–1936 (with Davide Coluccia and Sebastian 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 Newsroom, UCLA Anderson Review, VoxEU Talk
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