Identity Voting and Social Closure: Evidence from Italian Municipalities (with Oumar Ben Salha), revise & resubmit European Journal of Political Economy.

Social Adaptation to Diseases and Inequality: Historical Evidence from Malaria in Italy (with G. Gulino and E. Esposito), revise & resubmit Journal of Development Economics.

Building Consistent Territorial Units over Time: A Graph-Based Method for Historical Municipal Boundaries in Italy (with Bianca Cattaneo, Giampaolo Lecce, Vitantonio Mariella and Laura Ogliari), submitted, [CEPR working paper]

Planting the Seeds of Polarization: Sharecropping, Agrarian Conflict and Enduring Political Divides (with Giacomo Plevani), submitted [Working paper]

Geography, Ancient Connectivity, and Social Closure: Evidence from Surname Distributions in Italian Municipalities, submitted.

Landownership Concentration and Human Capital in Italy: Evidence from Municipalities, 1911–1921 (with Oumar Ben Salha), submitted.

Books Go Public: The Consequences of Monastic Libraries Expropriation on Innovation (with F. Cinnirella, E. Harka and M. Puca), under revision [CESifo working paper, CEPR working paper].

From Fields to Factories: Malaria Eradication and Structural Transformation in Post-War Italy (with Giampaolo Lecce, Vitantonio Mariella and Laura Ogliari), [CEPR working paper], under revision.

The Political Economy of Femicides: Local Spending Responses, Electoral Incentives and Nationality Bias (with Pasquale Giacobbe and Andrea Mosca), under revision, [SSRN working paper]

Voting After Gendered Shocks: The Impact of Femicides on Electoral Preferences (with Pasquale Giacobbe and Andrea Mosca), under revision, [SSRN working paper]

The Geography of Italian Fascism: Malaria, Land Inequality, and the Roots of Authoritarian Support (with G. Gulino and E. Esposito)

Brigandage and Political Disengagement: the lasting impact of civil conflict in post-unification Italy (with Giampaolo Lecce and Laura Ogliari) 

The Long Shadow of Slave Trades: Historical Sexual Regimes, Intimate Partner Violence, and Child Health and Maltreatment in Africa (with Elena Pisanelli)

Sharecropping and gender roles (with Giacomo Plevani and Elena Pisanelli)

The Sense of the State (with Elena Esposito and Giacomo Plevani)

The Unintended Consequences of Pandemic Lockdowns: Evidence on Domestic Violence in Italy (with A. Bochenkova, C. Deiana and S. Galletta).

Does Crime Surge at Dark? (with M. Ranzani). 

Risk Aversion and College Subject (with D. Pozzoli). University of Bergamo, Department of Economics Working Paper, n. 07, 2007.

The Socioeconomic Determinants of Crime. A Review of the Literature. Working Paper Series, Dipartimento di Economia Politica, Università degli Studi di Milano Bicocca, n. 63, 2003.