Job Displacement, Unemployment Benefits and Domestic Violence, Review of Economic Studies, accepted for publication, with S. Bhalotra, D. Britto, and B. Sampaio 

Making Subsidies Work: Rules vs. Discretion, Econometrica, accepted for publication, with F. Cingano, F. Palomba, and E. Rettore 

There's More to Marriage than Love: The Effect of Legal Status and Cultural Distance on Intermarriages and Separations, Journal of Political Economy, accepted for publication, with J. Adda and G. Tura

Revealing Stereotypes: Evidence from Immigrants in Schools, American Economic Review, accepted for publication, with A. Alesina, M. Carlana, and E. La Ferrara

Fueling Organized Crime: The Mexican War on Drugs and Oil Thefts, Economic Journal, accepted for publication, with G. Battiston, G. Daniele, and M. Le Moglie

Rules, Discretion, and Corruption in Procurement: Evidence from Italian Government Contracting, Journal of Political Economy Microeconomics, accepted for publication, with Francesco Decarolis, Ray Fisman, and Silvia Vannutelli 

Immigration and Crime: An International Perspective, Journal of Economic Perspectives, 38(1), 2024, with O. Marie

Organized Crime, Violence and Support for the State, Journal of Public Economics, 228, 2023, with G. Campedelli, G.Daniele, and A. Martinangeli

Gender and bureaucratic corruption: Evidence from two countries, Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization, 39(2), 2023, with F. Decarolis, R. Fisman, S. Vannutelli, and Y. Wang

The Effect of Job Loss and Unemployment Insurance on Crime in Brazil, Econometrica, 90(4), 2022 (lead article), with D. Britto and B. Sampaio

Goals and Gaps: Educational Careers of Immigrant Children, Econometrica, 90(1), 2022 (lead article), with M. Carlana and E. La Ferrara

Implicit Stereotypes in Teachers’ Track Recommendations, American Economic Review Papers & Proceedings, 112, 2022, with M. Carlana and E. La Ferrara

The Political Legacy of Entertainment TV, American Economic Review, 109(7), 2019, with R. Durante and A. Tesei

Organized Crime, Violence, and Politics, Review of Economic Studies, 86(2), 2019 (lead article), with A. Alesina and S. Piccolo

Clicking on heaven's door: The effect of immigrant legalization on crime.  American Economic Review, 107(1), 2017

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Trust, firm organization, and the pattern of comparative advantage. Journal of International Economics, 100, 2016 (lead article), with F. Cingano

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Legal status and the criminal activity of immigrants. American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 7(2), 2015, with G. Mastrobuoni

WP version     AEJ Best Paper Award 2016        American Economic Association research highlights

Immigration enforcement and crime. American Economic Review Papers & Proceedings, 105(5), 2015

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The economic costs of organised crime: Evidence from Southern Italy. Economic Journal, 125(586), 2015

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The Economics of Organized Crime: Preliminary Evidence Across Countries. Economic Journal, 125(586), 2015

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Politicians at work: The private returns and social costs of political connections. Journal of the European Economic Association, 11(2), 2013, with F. Cingano

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Trust, regulation and market failures. Review of Economics and Statistics, 94(3), 2012 

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Do immigrants cause crime?. Journal of the European Economic Association, 10(6), 2012, with M. Bianchi and P. Buonanno

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The credibility revolution in the empirical analysis of crime, Italian Economic Journal, Special Issue on the Economics of Crime (Guest Editor), 6, 2020

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Financial Development and Pay-As-You-Go Social Security. The BE Journal of Macroeconomics, 9(1), 2009

Delayed privatization. Public Choice, 136(3), 2008, with B. Bortolotti

Organized Crime, Violence, and the Quality of Politicians: Evidence from Southern Italy, in Cook, P. J., Machin, S., Marie, O., & Mastrobuoni, G. (eds.), Lessons from the Economics of Crime: What Reduces Offending?, MIT Press, 2013

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Social Capital, in Toniolo, G. (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of the Italian Economy Since Unification, Oxford University Press, 2013, with L. Guiso

Longer working paper: Democratization and civic capital

Advances in the Econometrics of Crime, in G.J.N. Bruinsma and D.L. Weisburd (eds.), Encyclopedia of Criminology and Criminal Justice, Springer, 2013, with G. Mastrobuoni

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Comments to "Can public sector wage bills be reduced?" (by P. Cahuc and S. Carcillo), in A. Alesina and F. Giavazzi (eds.), Fiscal Policy after the Financial Crisis, University of Chicago Press, 2013