*** WINNER of the KUZNETS PRIZE 2022 for the best paper published in the JOPE in 2021 (link) ***
I am an Associate Professor in Public Economics at University of Modena and Reggio Emilia since February 2025.
My research interests include Policy Evaluation, Poverty and Income Distribution, Household Finance, Pensions.
I previously hold positions as Senior Assistant Professor at the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia and as post-doc at the Sapienza University of Rome and the National Institute for Public Policies Analysis (INAPP, Rome). I got a PhD from the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia.
According to Ideas Ranking, Top 10% among economists in Italy and worldwide (considering publications in last 10 years only).
Italian qualification as Full Professor in Public Economics (Section 13/A3) since December 2023.
Last publications:
Could financial education be a universal social policy? A simulation of potential influences on inequality levels (with Alessia Sconti), Journal of Accounting and Public Policy, 2024, 46, 107231. Link
Covid-19 heterogeneous effects on Italian workers’ incomes: the role of jobs routinization and teleworkability (with Silvia Granato and Michele Raitano), International Journal of Manpower, 2024. Link
I Would Like to but I Cannot: What Influences the Involuntariness of Part-Time Employment in Italy (with Gianluca Busilacchi and Matteo Luppi), Social Indicators Research, 2024, 173, 439-473. Link
Does working from home increase the gender wage gaps? Insights from an Italian survey of occupations (with Luca Bonacini and Sergio Scicchitano), Feminist Economics, 2024. Link
Choose the school, choose the performance. New evidence on determinants of students’ performance in eight European countries (with Luca Bonacini and Irene Brunetti), Applied Economics, 2024, 56(6), 692-707. Link
Working papers:
Retirement Decisions in the Age of Covid-19 are Older Employees in Digital Occupations Working Longer? (with Amparo Nagore García) (under review)
Technology access for poor households in six European countries after Covid-19 pandemic crisis (with Claudia Zola) (under review)
Towards a Better Understanding of Poverty in the Italian Labour Market (with Maria Cristina D'Aguanno and Matteo Luppi) (under review)
How Pandemic Shock Affects Claim for Minimum Income Measures (with Andrea Barigazzi) (under review)
Sometimes you cannot make it on your own. Evidence on intergenerational mobility in Italy (with Luca Bonacini and Sergio Scicchitano)
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