Working papers

"Family Planning and Ethnic Heritage: Evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa” (with Arcangelo Dimico and Chiara Falco), CEPR Discussion Paper No. 19665, revised September 2025. [download wp] 

“Slavery, Sugar, and Family Structure” (with Arcangelo Dimico), previously CEPR Discussion Paper No. 14837,  revised August 2025. [download wp]

"Math Exposure and University Performance: Causal Evidence from Twins" (with Luca Bonacini, Majlinda Joxhe and Giuseppe Pignataro), CEPR Discussion Paper No.  19975, revised July 2025. [download wp]

"Ancestral Inequality and Preferences for Redistribution" (with Arcangelo Dimico and Gian Luca Tedeschi), mimeo, June 2024.  

“Female Healers, Witch Hunts, Epidemics, and Trust in Medicine” (with Luca Bagnato, Monica Bozzano and Arcangelo Dimico), in progress. 

“Colonialism in the Theory of Growth”, Brown University Working Paper No. 94-14, 1994. [download wp]

For other papers see also IDEAS.