Massimo Anelli

Associate Professor, Department of Social and Political Sciences, Bocconi University
Director of AISS — the AI in Social Sciences Research Lab

My research interests include:

  • technological change and its effects on labor markets, politics, and demography
  • emigration selection at origin
  • education
  • job amenities

I am a Research Fellow at CESifo, IZA, the ROCKWOOL Foundation Berlin, the Dondena Centre, IGIER, Baffi Carefin, and the Fondazione Rodolfo DeBenedetti.

Forthcoming & Recent Publications

Robots and Trade Unions: Granular Data and Evidence from Western Europe
with P. Agnolin, I. Colantone, and P. Stanig
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17864
Conditionally accepted at American Political Science Review

Willingness to Pay for Workplace Amenities
with F. Koenig
CESifo Working Paper No. 9469
Accepted at American Economic Journal: Applied Economics
🏆 Winner, SOLE Best Poster Award 2025

Robots, Automation, and Family Behavior
with O. Giuntella and L. Stella
Journal of Human Resources, 59(2), 443–469, 2024
🏆 Winner, JHR 2025 Highly Cited Paper Award

Rule Breaking, Honesty and Migration
with T. Colussi and A. Ichino
The Journal of Law and Economics, 66(2), 2023

Emigration and Entrepreneurial Drain
with G. Basso, G. Ippedico, and G. Peri
American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 15(2), 218–252, 2023

Working Papers

Adapting to Automation: Genetic Evidence on Workers’ Heterogeneity and Displacement
with P. Biroli, E. De Cao, S. Mendolia, and Y. Reichlin
Revise and Resubmit at Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS)

The Departed: Italian Migration and the American Mafia
with P. Pinotti and Z. Porreca
BAFFI Centre Research Paper No. 259
Revise and Resubmit at Review of Economic Studies

Tracing the Genetic Footprints of the UK National Health Service
with N. Martin-Bassols, P. Biroli, E. De Cao, S. von Hinke, and S. Mendolia
SSRN Working Paper No. 6175692; also available as arXiv:2602.03751
New working paper

What If You See It? Generative AI Exposure and Workers’ Divergent Policy Preferences
with I. Colantone, A. Gallego, and P. Stanig
Submitted. Draft available upon request

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