Research
Publications in peer reviewed journals
Why are lower socioeconomic background students underrepresented in Erasmus? A focus on the selection into mobility and degree course organization -with Sylke Schnepf - Studies in Higher Education, forthcoming (https://doi.org/10.1080/03075079.2024.2349963 - OPEN ACCESS)
Covid-19 heterogeneous effects on Italian workers' income: the role of jobs routinization and teleworkability - with Giovanni Gallo and Michele Raitano - International Journal of Manpower, forthcoming (https://doi.org/10.1108/IJM-08-2023-0474 - OPEN ACCESS) [WP version]
Study abroad programmes and graduates' academic performance: Evidence from Erasmus Applications - with Enkelejda Havari, Gianluca Mazzarella and Sylke Schnepf - Economics of Education Review, 2024 (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.econedurev.2024.102510 - OPEN ACCESS)
Early Influences and the choice of college major: Can policies reduce the gender gap in scientific curricula (STEM)? - Journal of Policy Modeling, 2023 (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jpolmod.2023.04.006 - OPEN ACCESS)
Book chapters
COVID-19 and the European Education Performance Decline: A Focus on Primary School Children's Reading Achievement between 2016 and 2021 - with Sylke Schnepf - in Schnepf, S. V., Volante, L., Klinger, D. A., Giancola, O. and Salmieri, L. (eds), The Pandemic, Socioeconomic Disadvantage and Learning Outcomes: Cross-National Impact Analyses of Education Policy Reforms, Publications Office of the European Union, Luxembourg, 2024, doi:10.2760/800165, JRC132452 [IZA WP]
Learning and Human Development - with Enkelejda Havari and Sylke Schnepf - in Àlvaro Choi (ed), Educational Foundations, Volume 5: Economic Foundations of Education, Bloomsbury, London, 2023, ISBN 9781350171220
Pandemia e distribuzione dei redditi da lavoro e familiari in Italia nel 2020 - with Giovanni Gallo and Michele Raitano - in Felice Roberto Pizzuti, Michele Raitano e Massimiliano Tancioni (eds), Rapporto sullo Stato Sociale 2022, Sapienza University Press, 2022, ISBN 9788893772143
Policy papers
An evaluation of the impact of RDI State aid in Slovenia on firms' performance - with Elena Crivellaro, JRC Technical Report, Publications Office of the European Union, Luxembourg, 2023 [DOWNLOAD]
An evaluation of the CAP impact: A discrete policy mix analysis - with Montezuma Dumangane, Marzia Freo, Athanasios Lapatinas and Gianluca Mazzarella, JRC Technical Report, Publications Office of the European Union, Luxembourg, 2021 [DOWNLOAD]
Causal estimates of Geographical Indications' effects on territorial development: feasibility and application - with Montezuma Dumangane, Athanasios Lapatinas and Gianluca Mazzarella, JRC Technical Report, Publications Office of the European Union, Luxembourg, 2021 [DOWNLOAD]
The evaluation of the Youth Employment Initiative in Portugal using Counterfactual Impact Evaluation methods - with Nuno Duarte, Andrea Geraci, Gianluca Mazzarella and Maria João Mortaua, JRC Technical Report, Publications Office of the European Union, Luxembourg, 2020 [DOWNLOAD]
Administrative data for the evaluation of Pay Transparency measures - with Giulia Santangelo, JRC Technical Report, Publications Office of the European Union, Luxembourg, 2020 (available upon request)
Media
Il telelavoro per le donne ai tempi del Covid: più flessibilità o più equilibrismo? - con Sara Flisi e Giulia Santangelo, Menabò di Etica ed Economia n.136/2020 [link]
Work in progress
Shall I try it again or maybe later? Number and schedule of exam sessions and university dropout - with Massimiliano Bratti and Enkelejda Havari
Studying During a Pandemic: the Impact of Covid19 on Higher Education Choices in the Netherlands - with Marco Colagrossi, Gianluca Mazzarella and Elena Meroni
Estimating the returns to R&D subsidies - with Elena Crivellaro, Antonella Ferrara and Frederic Warzynski
The role of the EU CAP in the adoption of risk-mitigating strategies in agriculture: evidence from a Generalised Propensity Score approach - with Annalisa Frigo