Department of Economics, Social Studies, Applied Mathematics and Statistics

Selected research products

Are COVID Fatalities in the US Higher than in the EU, and if so, why?} (with Shoshana Grossbard), Review of Economics of the Household, 2020, p. 1-20.

Political Instability and Birth Outcomes: Evidence from the 23F Military Coup in Spain (with Libertad González), Health Economics, November 2020.

Later onset, fewer deaths from COVID (with Shoshana Grossbard), Pathogens and Global Health, 2020, p. 1-3.

Intergenerational Residence Patterns and COVID-19 Fatalities in the EU and the US} (with Shoshana Grossbard), Economics & Human Biology, 2020, vol. 39, Dec 2020, 100934.

Recessions and Babies' Health (with Libertad González and Judit Vall-Castelló), Economics & Human Biology, Volume 37, May 2020, 100836.

The uneven impact of women's retirement on their daughters' employment, Review of Economics of the Household, 2020, vol. 18(3), pages 795-821, September.

Immigrants move where their skills are scarce: Evidence from English profficiency (with Zoe Kuehn), Labour Economics, Vol. 61, December 2019, 101748

TV or not TV? Subtitling and English skills (with Albert Banal-Estanol, Ricardo Bris, and Augusto Ruperez-Micola), Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, Vol. 158, pages 487-499

Immigrant Networks and Remittances: Cheaper together? (with Zoe Kuehn), World Development, 2018, vol. 111, pages 225-248

English Proficiency and Mathematics Test Scores of Immigrant Children in the US, Economics of Education Review, 2018, vol. 64, issue C, 102-113

Compulsory Schooling Laws and Migration across European Countries (with Zoe Kuehn), Demography, December 2017, Volume 54, Issue 6, pp 2181–2200

Returns to Education and Educational Outcomes: the Case of the Spanish Housing Boom, Journal of Human Capital, Volume 10, Issue 2, Pages 235-265, 2016

Should I Stay or Should I Go? Sibling Effects in Household Formation (with Veruska Oppedisano), Review of Economics of the Household, December 2016, Volume 14, Issue 4, pp 1007–1027

The Effect of Product Market Competition on Job Security, Labour Economics, Volume 35, August 2015, Pages 145-159

Fostering Household Formation: Evidence from a Spanish Rental Subsidy (with Veruska Oppedisano), The B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis and Policy: Contributions, January 2015, Volume 15, Issue 1, Pages 53–84

Working Women and Fertility: The Role of Grandmothers’ Labor Force Participation (with Marian Vidal-Fernández), CESifo Economic Studies (2015) 61 (1): 123-147

Does Foreign Language Proficiency Foster Migration of Young Individuals within the European Union? (with Zoe Kuehn), The Economics of Language Policy, edited by Bengt-Arne Wickstroem and Michele Gazzola, MIT Press (ISBN: 978-0-262-03470-8)

Courses

• ECONOMETRICS (SEM0103)
  Corso di studio in Economia
• MICROECONOMIA (ECO0002)
  Corso di studio in Economia

Research topics

I am a labor economist with a special focus on education, migration and family economics.  In my most recent research I show that: (i) it is possible to measure selection into treatment in many RDD settings and, in particular, parents select high ability children to start school early in Italy, (ii) daughters increase their labor force participation in response to their mothers retirement only in countries with weak family policies and strong family values, and (iii) migrants move where their skills are scarce.

Research groups

• Education, Gender, Health & Labour

Research projects

• Tackling Inequalities in Educational Outcomes: Experimental Evidence from Italian Primary Schools - PRIN 2022
• Sono importanti i contratti di lavoro dei professori?
• Naturalization and Immigrants’ Health
• Supporto all'eccellenza degli studenti in Italia e in Piemonte
• The Impact of Job Security on Workers' Health
• Gender Composition in Teams
• Interazioni tra i minori nel contesto scolastico: Fattori determinanti e conseguenze

Academic bodies

• Consiglio - Dipartimento di Scienze economico-sociali e matematico-statistiche

• Commissione Monitoraggio e Riesame - Cds Economia e Commercio
• Consiglio - Cds Economia