Research / Publications

Research.

Journal articles, books and working papers. Publisher open-access versions are marked separately; DOI links are provided where verified.

Journal articles

Using Newspaper Obituaries to Nowcast Daily Mortality: Evidence from the Italian COVID-19 Outbreak

Health Policy

With Marcello Puca

Estimating the Severity of COVID-19: Evidence from the Italian Epicenter

PLOS ONE Open access

With Sergio Galletta and Marcello Puca

Inequality, Crime, and the Long-Run Legacy of Slavery

Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization

With Juan F. Vargas

How Much Should We Trust Crime Statistics? A Comparison Between EU and US

European Journal of Law and Economics

With Francesco Drago, Roberto Galbiati and Pietro Vertova

Political Regimes and Government's Reaction to Terrorism: A Simple Model

Peace Economics, Peace Science and Public Policy

With Nicola Brugali and Mario Gilli

Social Closure, Surnames and Crime

Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization

With Paolo Vanin

The Crime Kuznets Curve

Journal of Quantitative Criminology

With Leopoldo Fergusson and Juan F. Vargas

Organized Crime and Electoral Outcomes: Evidence from Sicily at the Turn of the XX Century

European Journal of Political Economy

With Giovanni Prarolo and Paolo Vanin

Advocatus, et Non Latro? Testing the Excess of Litigation in the Italian Courts of Justice

Review of Law & Economics

With Matteo Maria Galizzi

Migrating Mafias

Regional Science and Urban Economics

With Matteo Pazzona

Response of Crime to Unemployment: An International Comparison

Journal of Contemporary Criminal Justice

With Francesco Drago and Roberto Galbiati

Bowling Alone, Drinking Together

Empirical Economics

With Paolo Vanin

Housing Prices and Crime Perception

Empirical Economics

With Daniel Montolio and Josep Maria Raya-Vílchez

Thank You for Not Smoking: Evidence from the Italian Smoking Ban

Health Policy

With Marco Ranzani

Crime and Social Sanction

Papers in Regional Science

With Giacomo Pasini and Paolo Vanin

Crime in Europe and in the US: Dissecting the Reversal of Misfortunes

Economic Policy

With Francesco Drago, Roberto Galbiati and Giulio Zanella

Does Social Capital Reduce Crime?

Journal of Law and Economics

With Daniel Montolio and Paolo Vanin

Early Labour Market Returns to College Subject

LABOUR

With Dario Pozzoli

Juvenile Crime in Spain

Applied Economics Letters

With Daniel Montolio

Non-Market Effects of Education on Crime: Evidence from Italian Regions

Economics of Education Review

With Leone Leonida

Expert and Peer Pressure in Food and Wine Tasting: Evidence from a Pilot Experiment

Enometrica

With Giovanni Caggiano, Matteo Maria Galizzi, Leone Leonida and Paolo Vanin

Identifying the Socio-Economic and Demographic Determinants of Crime Across Spanish Provinces

International Review of Law and Economics

With Daniel Montolio

Crime and Labour Market Opportunities in Italy (1993–2002)

LABOUR

Crime, Education and Peer Pressure

Rivista di Politica Economica

Education and Crime: Evidence from Italian Regions

Applied Economics Letters

With Leone Leonida

Endogenous Induced Technical Change and the Costs of Kyoto

Resource and Energy Economics

With Carlo Carraro and Marzio Galeotti

Emission Trading Restrictions with Endogenous Technological Change

International Environmental Agreements: Politics, Law and Economics

With Carlo Carraro, Efrem Castelnuovo and Marzio Galeotti

Working papers

Voting After Gendered Shocks: The Impact of Femicides on Electoral Preferences

Conditionally accepted · Public Choice

With Pasquale Giacobbe and Andrea Mosca

Geography, Ancient Connectivity, and Social Closure: Evidence from Surname Distributions

Revised & resubmitted · Journal of Population Economics

Building Consistent Territorial Units over Time: A Graph-Based Method for Historical Data

Revise & resubmit · European Review of Economic History

With Bianca Cattaneo, Giampaolo Lecce, Vitantonio Mariella and Laura Ogliari

Social Adaptation to Diseases and Inequality: Historical Evidence from Malaria in Italy

Revise & resubmit · Journal of Development Economics

With Elena Esposito and Giorgio Gulino

Violence, Political Selection, and State Formation: Evidence from Post-Unification Italy

Reject & resubmit · Journal of Economic Growth

With Giampaolo Lecce, Laura Ogliari and Giacomo Plevani

The Political Economy of Femicides: Local Spending Responses, Electoral Incentives

Submitted

With Andrea Mosca and Pasquale Giacobbe

Planting the Seeds of Polarization: Sharecropping, Agrarian Conflict and Enduring Political Divides

Submitted

With Giacomo Plevani

From Fields to Factories: Malaria Eradication and Structural Transformation in Post-War Italy

Submitted

With Giampaolo Lecce, Vitantonio Mariella and Laura Ogliari

Books Go Public: The Consequences of Monastic Libraries Expropriation on Innovation

Under revision

With Francesco Cinnirella, Elona Harka and Marcello Puca

Work in progress

The Geography of Italian Fascism: Malaria, Land Inequality, and the Roots of Authoritarian Support

Work in progress

With Giorgio Gulino and Elena Esposito

The Long Shadow of Slave Trades: Historical Sexual Regimes, Intimate Partner Violence, and Child Health and Maltreatment in Africa

Work in progress

With Elena Pisanelli

Sharecropping and Gender Roles

Work in progress

With Giacomo Plevani and Elena Pisanelli

The Sense of the State

Work in progress

With Elena Esposito and Giacomo Plevani

Books

Book chapters & reference entries

The Changing Nature of Economics of Crime

Book chapter

With Paolo Vanin and Juan Vargas

Prison

Encyclopedia of Law and Economics

With Juan F. Vargas

Crime: Economics of, the Standard Approach

Encyclopedia of Law and Economics

With Juan F. Vargas

Centralized vs. Decentralized Police Hiring in Italy and the US

MIT Press

With Giovanni Mastrobuoni

L’approccio economico alla criminalità e una analisi econometrica del caso italiano

Book chapter

With Leone Leonida

Efficiency and Equity of Emissions Trading with Endogenous Environmental Technical Change

Kluwer

With Carlo Carraro, Efrem Castelnuovo and Marzio Galeotti

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