Research

Research Papers:

• The Impact of Interventions Against Science Disinformation in High School Students (2025) with Carlo Martini, Folco Panizza, Luca Ausili, Mara Floris, Giorgia Adorno, and Giulio Pennacchioni Scientific Reports. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-025-16565-6

• Armed conflict and gendered participation in agrifood systems: Survey evidence from 29 African countries (2025) with Carlo Azzarri, Tilman Brück, Gianluigi Nico, Erdgin Mane and Wolfgang Stojetz. Global Food Security. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gfs.2024.100821

• Irrational herding persists in human-bot interactions (2025) with Luca Verginer, Giacomo Vaccario. Scientific Reports. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-025-05534-8

• How different incentives reduce scientific misinformation online (2024) with Folco Panizza, Simone Mattavelli, Tiffany Morisseau and Carlo Martini. Harvard Kennedy School Misinformation Review. https://doi.org/10.37016/mr-2020-131

• The Preoccupied Parent:  Household Choices under Low Income. (2023) with Sergiu Burlacu, Anandi Mani and Lucia Savadori. Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics. available here https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socec.2023.102030

• Competition and moral behavior: A meta-analysis of forty-five crowd-sourced experimental designs (2023) with Christoph Huber, Anna Dreber, Jürgen Huber, ... , and Felix Holzmeister. PNAS. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2215572120

• How do online users respond to crowdsourced fact-checking? (2023) with Folco Panizza, Carlo Martini, Tiffany Morisseau, and Simone Mattavelli. Humanities and Social Sciences Communications. https://doi.org/10.1057/s41599-023-02329-y

• Medical Expert Endorsement Fails to Reduce Vaccine Hesitancy in UK Residents. (2023) with Folco Panizza, Carlo Martini, Lucia Savadori and Matteo Motterlini.. Journal of Trial & Error. https://doi.org/10.36850/e15

• Instructed or Paid Way to Truth? The contribution of fact-checking tips and monetary incentives to recognizing scientific disinformation. (2022) with Folco Panizza, Carlo Martini, Tiffany Morisseau, Simone Mattavelli and Matteo Motterlini. Scientific Reports. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-09168-y

• Countering Vaccine Hesitancy through Medical Expert Endorsement (2022) with Folco Panizza, Carlo Martini, Lucia Savadori and Matteo Motterlini. Vaccine. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.vaccine.2022.06.031

• Communicating seismic risk information: The effect of risk comparisons on risk perception sensitivity (2022) with Lucia Savadori, Daniela di Bucci, Giacomo Sillari and Mauro Dolce. Frontiers in Communication. 7:743172. https://doi.org/10.3389/fcomm.2022.743172 

• Blinded by worries: sin taxes and demand for temptation under financial worries  (2022) with Sergiu Burlacu, Austeja Kažemekaitytė and Lucia Savadori. Theory and Decision, 1-47. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11238-021-09820-5

• Selective insensitivity for losses but not gains in decision making under risk among the poor (2018) with Lucia Savadori, Giuseppe  Folloni and Luigi Mittone. Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics, 77, 96-106. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socec.2018.10.001

• Poverty and risk: differences in perceptions and attitudes toward risk in highly deprived contexts (2017). Sistemi Intelligenti 2/2017, pp. 469-478, DOI: 10.1422/87763

Under review and working papers:

• The burden of past experience: recalling life events decreases poor people's expected returns in risky choices (2022) with Lucia Savadori and Luigi Mittone R&R PLOS One. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/tmwq2

• Building Resilience in Conflict Areas: Quasi-experimental Evidence from Borno State in North-east Nigeria (2024) with Tilman Brück, Marco d’Errico, Jeanne Pinay and Wolfgang Stojetz. R&R Journal of African Economies. https://hicn.org/working-paper/419/

• Shocking social safety: Evidence from violence and drought in North-east Nigeria (2024) with Tilman Brück, Marco d’Errico, Jeanne Pinay and Wolfgang Stojetz. R&R Food Policy. https://hicn.org/working-paper/420/

• Prevalence of Depression and Associated Socio-economic Outcomes during Violent Conflict: A Matched Analysis for Palestine Using Nationally Representative Survey and Conflict Event Data (2024) with Wolfgang Stojetz, Nadine Stammel, Maria Boettche, Diego Zardetto, Sarah Fenzl, Jessica M. Anderson, Arden Finn, Maen Salhab, Alia Aghajanian, and Tilman Brück. Under Review. https://doi.org/10.1101/2024.02.23.24303259

Ongoing Work:

Towards the study of world misinformation

Measuring and Manipulating the Breadwinner strain, with Sveva Vitellozzi and Lucia Savadori 

The breadwinner dilemma: experimental evidence on gender norms and community seedbank adoption, with Sveva Vitellozzi and Lucia Savadori

Artificially Inspired: An experiment on AI's effects on creative skill enhancement (with Luca Verginer, Ali Seyhun Saral, and Maria Almudena Claassen)