Research

Journal articles:

• This must be the place:  local amenities and superstars' wages. Empirical Economics. Forthcoming. (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)

Media Coverage:  IZA Newsletter; The Telegrah; Spectator; CanalMyNews  

• 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 

• 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). 

Summary in Italian: Lavoce.info // Top 10 Social Media Article at EER / /

Media Coverage: ANSA; VICE; Business Insider; LaRepubblica; Wired; AGI; Open; Open (2); Affari Italiani; TPI; Lettera43; Fuoriluogo; RADIO24; Newz; VICE; IlSecoloXIX; The Vision; TheGreenEntrepeneur; Reuters; NOS (in Dutch) //  Wikipedia

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

Media Coverage: The Health Economists' Blog; Corriere del Trentino; Comminit (Canada) // Wikipedia  

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

Media Coverage: Oxford University Press; Etica & Economia (in Italian)

Book chapters:

Internet use in times of pandemic (with Guglielmo Weber), forthcoming 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.

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

• Too Much Too Young: Relative Age and Adolescent Risky Behaviours  (with L. Fumarco) -  Submitted

• Healthy ageing for all? A health growth incidence curve approach. (with V. Carrieri, A. Jones and M. Speziali)  - Submitted

• Robot adoption and occupational health (with M. Filomena) -  R&R at OBES

• A Neglected Determinant of Eating Behaviors: Relative Age  (with L. Fumarco and S. Hartmann ) - [IZA wp]

• 110% Superbonus, Mafia penetration and workplace accidents.

• Labor market dynamics in a highly competitive industry. (with J. van Ours)

• The political economy of (light) cannabis. (with V. Carrieri, L. Madio and P. Roberti)

• Cannabis and road fatalities.