Research
Within each area: forthcoming papers and revisions under review, then working papers, then publications. Drafts marked available upon request can be obtained by emailing me.
Technology, Politics and Society
Forthcoming & Revise and Resubmit
Robots and Trade Unions: Granular Data and Evidence from Western Europe
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17864
Conditionally accepted at American Political Science Review
Coverage: IZA World of Labor (commentary)
Adapting to Automation: Genetic Evidence on Workers’ Heterogeneity and Displacement
Revise and Resubmit at Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS)
Working Papers
What If You See It? Generative AI Exposure and Workers’ Divergent Policy Preferences
Submitted. Draft available upon request
Railroads and Populism: Technological Change, Market Integration, and Political Backlash in 19th-Century America
Draft available upon request
Publications
Robots, Automation, and Family Behavior
Journal of Human Resources, 59(2), 443–469, 2024
🏆 Winner, JHR 2025 Highly Cited Paper Award
Coverage: The Washington Post, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Metro, UNILAD, La Repubblica
Individual Vulnerability to Industrial Robot Adoption Increases Support for the Radical Right
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 118(47), e2111611118, 2021
Coverage: The Washington Post, La Repubblica, Il Fatto Quotidiano
Migration Selection
Forthcoming & Revise and Resubmit
The Departed: Italian Migration and the American Mafia
BAFFI Centre Research Paper No. 259
Revise and Resubmit at Review of Economic Studies
Working Papers
Populism and Geographical Sorting
Publications
Rule Breaking, Honesty and Migration
The Journal of Law and Economics, 66(2), 2023
Emigration and Entrepreneurial Drain
American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 15(2), 218–252, 2023
Fertility Drain or Fertility Gain? Emigration and Fertility during the Great Recession in Italy
Demography, 58(2), 631–654, 2021
Does Emigration Delay Political Change? Evidence from Italy during the Great Recession
Economic Policy, 32(91), 551–596, 2017
Coverage: The Washington Post, The New York Times, Corriere della Sera, Oxford University Press Blog
Education and Human Capital
Working Papers
The Spillovers of Child Disability on Peers’ Education
Education during COVID: Policy Choices, Family Compensation and Learning Losses
Draft available upon request
Publications
Foreign Students in College and the Supply of STEM Graduates
Journal of Labor Economics, 41(2), 2023
The Returns to Elite University Education: A Quasi-Experimental Analysis
Journal of the European Economic Association, 18(6), 2824–2868, 2020
The Effects of High School Peers’ Gender on College Major, College Performance and Income
The Economic Journal, 129(618), 553–602, 2019
Gender of Siblings and Choice of College Major
CESifo Economic Studies, 61(1), 53–71, 2015
Gender Gap in Labor Market Outcomes: Less Explored Aspects and Dimensions
In Unexplored Dimensions of Discrimination, Oxford University Press, 2015
Gender Gap in Italy: The Role of College Majors
In Unexplored Dimensions of Discrimination, Oxford University Press, 2015
More Unexplored Dimensions of Gender Gap and College Choice: Attitudes, Choice of Partner, and Peer/Teacher Effects in School
In Unexplored Dimensions of Discrimination, Oxford University Press, 2015
Health and Ageing
Forthcoming & Revise and Resubmit
Willingness to Pay for Workplace Amenities
CESifo Working Paper No. 9469
Accepted at American Economic Journal: Applied Economics
🏆 Winner, SOLE Best Poster Award 2025
Working Papers
Tracing the Genetic Footprints of the UK National Health Service
SSRN Working Paper No. 6175692; also available as arXiv:2602.03751
New working paper
The Political Ageing Trap: Supply and Demand of Age-based Policies
Publications in Italian Journals
Workers and Generative AI: Evidence from Italy
Economia Italiana, 2026
Forthcoming
Financial Constraints and University Attendance in Europe: Can Financial Institutions Lend a Hand?
Politica Economica, no. 2, 261–306, 2023