Leave and Let Leave: Workplace Peer Effects in Fathers’ Take-up of Parental Leave, with Alessandra Casarico, Edoardo Di Porto and Joanna Kopinska [Twitter]
Also available as CESifo Working Paper No. 11795 [older version]
Selected project for the VisitINPS Fellowship on gender inequalities (2021)
One Cohort at a Time: Young Workers’ Outcomes and the Declining Gender Pay Gap, with Jaime Arellano-Bover, Nicola Bianchi and Matteo Paradisi [BlueSky]
Also available as IZA Discussion Paper No. 17621 and NBER working paper no. 32612 [older versions]
Selected project for the VisitINPS Fellowship on gender inequalities (2023)
In the media: KelloggInsight, Marginal Revolution, VoxEU, El Confidencial, Bloomberg, CNBC, Fortune, Allnews, Exame, Rivista Eco
Place-Based Industrial Policies and Local Agglomeration in the Long Run, Rockwool Foundation Discussion Papers No. 19/24, with Lorenzo Incoronato [CESifo Working Paper No. 11397]
Winner of the 2nd edition of the prize for the best paper in the field of public policies awarded by Fondazione Bruno Kessler’s Institute for evaluative research on public policies (IRVAPP)
In the media: Il Sole 24 Ore
Mom’s Out: Employment after Childbirth and Firm-Level Responses, IZA Discussion Paper No. 16908 and Temi di Discussione (Bank of Italy Working Papers) 1458, with Francesca Carta, Alessandra Casarico and Marta De Philippis [Twitter]
Selected project for the VisitINPS Fellowship on gender inequalities (2020)
Non-technical summary in the Gender Annual Report of the Ministry of Economics and Finance - Bilancio di genere (pp. 78-81), and in the Annex to the 24th Annual Report of the Social Security Institute (pp. 23-27)
In the media: Save the Children, Lavoce.info, Linkiesta, Il Fatto Quotidiano, Neodemos
An assessment of occupational exposure to artificial intelligence in Italy, Questioni di Economia e Finanza (Bank of Italy Occasional Papers) 878, with Antonio Dalla Zuanna, Davide Dottori and Elena Gentili [Twitter]
In the media: Milano Finanza, Econopoly, Corriere della Sera, Il Sole 24 Ore 1, Il Sole 24 Ore 2
The Anatomy of Labor Cost Adjustment to Demand Shocks: Germany and Italy During the Great Recession, Temi di Discussione (Bank of Italy Working Papers) 1411, with Francesco D'Amuri and Benjamin S. Smith [R&R Italian Economic Journal]
Austerity and Support for Radical-Right Parties: The Case of Local Fiscal Rules, with Alexandru Savu [R&R Journal of Law, Economics, & Organization]
In the media: Der Spiegel
Exploring Gender Inequality: Firm Contribution and Policy Effects, LSE Public Policy Review, 2025, with Alessandra Casarico [Twitter]
The Peer Effect on Future Wages in the Workplace, Journal of Applied Econometrics, 2025, with Long Hong [WP version] [Replication files] [Twitter]
Parental Labor Market Penalties During Two Years of COVID-19, Review of Economics of the Household, 2025, with Maria De Paola [WP version] [Twitter]
In the media: Lavoce.info
The Increase in Earnings Inequality in Italy: The Role and Persistence of Atypical Contracts, Review of Income and Wealth, 2025, with Domenico Depalo [WP version] [Replication files] [Twitter]
In the media: Lavoce.info, Il Fatto Quotidiano
What Firms Do: Gender Inequality in Linked Employer-Employee Data, Journal of Labor Economics, 2024, with Alessandra Casarico [Web appendix] [Old WP version] [Replication files] [Twitter]
Awarded the Tarantelli Prize for the best paper presented at the annual conference of the Italian Labour Economics society (2019)
Selected project for the VisitINPS Scholars Program (2017)
In the media: IAB-Forum, Lavoce.info, Domani, L'Espresso
Schools and the Transmission of Sars-Cov-2: Evidence from Italy, Economics & Human Biology, 2023 [Old WP version] [Replication files] [Twitter]
In the media: Radio 24 (min. 18:00), Radio Radicale, Domani 1, Domani 2, Internazionale, Il Fatto Quotidiano, Il Foglio, Linkiesta, Repubblica
Worker flows and reallocation during the recovery, Labour Economics, 2023, with Gaetano Basso and Domenico Depalo [Old WP version] [Replication files] [Twitter]
Behind the Child Penalty: Understanding What Contributes to the Labour Market Costs of Motherhood, Journal of Population Economics, 2023, with Alessandra Casarico [Old WP version] [Replication files] [Twitter]
In the media: Domani 1, Domani 2, lavoce.info, Il Foglio, La Stampa, Econopoly, Il Post, Il Tirreno
The Heterogeneous Effects of COVID-19 on Labor Market Flows: Evidence from Administrative Data, The Journal of Economic Inequality, 20, pp. 537-558, 2022, with Alessandra Casarico [Replication files]
Previous draft published in Covid Economics: Vetted and Real-Time Papers, Issue 52, 15 October 2020
In the media: Domani
Women and Local Public Finance, European Journal of Political Economy, 72, 2022, with Alessandra Casarico and Paola Profeta [Replication files] [Twitter]
L'occupazione in Italia dopo la pandemia, Questioni di Economia e Finanza 962, 2025, with Emanuele Ciani, Graziella Mendicino and Eliana Viviano [Twitter]
In the media: Sole 24 Ore
Migration flows and policies in Italy and in other European countries, Questioni di Economia e Finanza 923, 2025, with Gaetano Basso, Elena Gentili and Giacomo Roma [Italian version] [Twitter]
In the media: Rivista Eco, Repubblica
Worker reallocation in Italy and Spain after the COVID-19 pandemic, Latin American Journal of Central Banking, 100105, 2023, with Ángel Luis Gómez
Il sistema di ammortizzatori sociali in Italia: aspetti critici nel confronto europeo, Questioni di Economia e Finanza 697, 2022, with Francesca Carta, Antonio Dalla Zuanna and Salvatore Lo Bello
Who Lost the Most? The Heterogeneous Effects of Covid-19 on the Labor Market, CESifo Forum 22 (4), 20-24, 2021, with Alessandra Casarico [Twitter]
Lifting Restrictions with Changing Mobility and the Importance of Soft Containment Measures: A SEIRD Model of COVID-19 Dynamics, Covid Economics: Vetted and Real-Time Papers, Issue 18, 15 May 2020, with Dario Palumbo [Twitter]
In the media: Lavoce.info, cafoscarinews