Publications 


There's More to Marriage than Love: The Effect of Legal Status and Cultural Distance on Intermarriages and Separations 

with J. Adda  and  P. Pinotti 

Journal of Political Economy, April 2025, Vol. 133, No. 4, pp. 1276 -1333

[Publisher's Version] [Working Paper

Media: Corriere della Sera,  VoxEU,  [Non Technical Summary] [Voices on Science, LUISS News Book 2025 p.16]



Political Backlash to Refugee Settlement: Cultural and Economic Drivers

with F. Campo, S. Giunti, and M. Mendola

Journal of Public Economics, October 2025, Vol. 250, 105467 

[Publisher's Version] [Working Paper]

Media: LaVoce Info,  [Non Technical Summary]



For Better and For Worse: The Dissolution of Interethnic Marriages in Italy 

Review of Economics of the Household, October 2025

[Publisher's Version] [Working Paper]


Working Papers


Marriage, Fertility, and Cultural Integration in Italy, NBER WP 2019 (new version 2024)

with A. Bisin

Revise & Resubmit,  American Economic Review

[Working Paper]

Media: Marginal RevolutionVoxEU



Research in Progress  


Matching Refugees: Economic and Socio-Cultural Integration Perspectives, 2021.


Electoral Rules and the Selection of Political Elites (with L. Nunziata and L. Rocco)