Research

PUBLICATIONS

Journal articles:

Robot adoption and occupational health. - Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics. Forthcoming. (with M. Filomena)

Health's Kitchen: TV, Edutainment and Nutrition.- Journal of Human Resources. Forthcoming. (with V. Carrieri)

Healthy ageing for all? A health growth incidence curve approach. Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics. 2025. (with V. Carrieri, A. Jones and M. Speziali)

This must be the place: local amenities and superstars' wages. Empirical Economics. 2024. (with M. Filomena)

Who supports liberal policies? A tale of two referendums in Italy. Economics Letters. 2023. (with L. Madio)

Online health information seeking and Covid-19 vaccine hesitancy. Health Policy. 2023. (with G. Weber)

WHO and for how long? An empirical analysis of the consumers’ response to red meat warning. Food Policy. 2022. (with V. Carrieri)

Racial Bias in Newspaper Ratings of Professional Football Players. European Economic Review. 2022. (with J. Van Ours)

More goals, fewer babies? On national teams’ performance and birth rates. Economics Letters. 2021. (with L. Fumarco)

The transfer system in European football: a pro-competitive no-poaching agreement? International Journal of Industrial Organization. 2021. (with S. Hoey & T. Peeters)

Media Coverage: FIFPro Video: YouTube ROSES

Do-it-Yourself medicine? The impact of (unintended) light cannabis liberalization on drug prescriptions in Italy. Journal of Health Economics. 2020. (with V. Carrieri and L. Madio)

Death by austerity? The impact of cost containment on avoidable mortality in Italy. Health Economics. 2020. (with E. Van Doorslaer & E. Arcà)

Productivity shocks and labour market outcomes for top earners: evidence from Italian Serie A. Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics. 2020. (with V. Carrieri & A.M. Jones).

Light cannabis and organised crime. Evidence from (unintended) liberalization in Italy. European Economic Review. 2019. (with V. Carrieri & L. Madio).

Vaccine Hesitancy and (Fake) News: Quasi-experimental Evidence from Italy. Health Economics. 2019. (with V. Carrieri & L. Madio)

What makes you 'super rich'? New evidence from an analysis of football players' wages. Oxford Economic Papers. 2018. (with V.Carrieri & M. Raitano).

Book chapters:

Empirical Health Economics for Evidence-Based Policies: Some Lessons From Italy (with V. Carrieri), 2024. Contributions to Economic Analysis: Recent developments in health econometrics (Issue in honor of Andrew Jones), Volume 297: 111-125.

Internet use in times of pandemic (with Guglielmo Weber), 2023. In Axel Börsch-Supan, Agnieszka Chłoń-Domińczak, Anita Abramowska-Kmon, Florence Jusot, Šime Smolić, Karen Andersen-Ranberg, Agar Brugiavini, Guglielmo Weber, Howard Litwin, Life of people aged 50+ during the Covid-19 pandemic: First results from the SHARE Corona Surveys.

WORKING PAPERS

Causal Mechanisms of Relative Age Effects on Adolescent Risky Behaviours (with L. Fumarco and L. Laffers)
Influence of Within-Class Age Differences on Adolescents’ Eating Behaviors. (with L. Fumarco and S. Hartmann ) - [IZA wp] R&R at Economics of Education Review
Labor market dynamics in a highly competitive industry. (with J. van Ours) - [CEPR wp] R&R at Labour Economics
Positional Concerns in Economic and Health Decisions. (wth N. Muller, F. Fallucchi and M. Suhrcke)- Submitted
Mafia penetration and worker health- Submitted
CBD at work: The impact of cannabidiol access on workplace health (with M. Filomena) - R&R at Journal of Population Economics

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