Valentino Larcinese

Department of Government

London School of Economics

Houghton Street

London WC2A 2AE

United Kingdom

Tel +44 (0) 20 7849 4602

Fax +44 (0) 20 7955 6352

Email: V.Larcinese@lse.ac.uk

Acropolis

The road to hell is paved with good intentions,

rational expectations and efficient markets

Position: senior lecturer in public policy and public choice

Education

● PhD in economics (LSE)

● Doctorate in economics (Milan)

● MSc in economics (York)

● Laurea in economic and social disciplines (Bocconi)

Working papers

- Enfranchisement and Representation: Italy 1909-1913

- Changing Needs, Sticky Budget: Evidence from the Geographic Distribution of US Federal Grants (with Leo Rizzo and Cecilia Testa)

- Blissful ignorance? Evidence from a natural experiment on the effect of individual feedback on performance (with Oriana Bandiera & Imran Rasul)

- Why Do Small States Receive More Federal Money? US Senate Representation and the Allocation of Federal Budget (with Leo Rizzo and Cecilia Testa)

- Policy Restrictions, Democratic Deficit and Redistribution

Publications in refereed journals

- Testing Models of Distributive Politics Using Exit Polls to Measure Voter Preferences and Partisanship (with Jim Snyder and Cecilia Testa), British Journal of Political Science, forthcoming

- Partisan Bias in Economic News: Evidence on the Agenda Setting Behavior of US Newspapers (with Jim Snyder and Riccardo Puglisi), Journal of Public Economics, 95 (9-10), 1178-1189 [2011]

- Working or Shirking? Expenses and Attendance in the UK Parliament, (with Timothy Besley), Public Choice, 147, 291-317 [2011]

- Heterogeneous class size effects. New evidence from a panel of university students (with Oriana Bandiera & Imran Rasul), Economic Journal, 549, 1365-1398 [2010]

- Information Acquisition, Ideology and Turnout: Theory and Evidence from Britain, Journal of Theoretical Politics, 21(2), 237-276. [2009]

- A Discrepancy Index for the Study of Participation with an Application to the Case of Higher Education in Italy, Social Indicators Research, 88(3), 483-496. [2008]

- The Instrumental Voter Goes to the News-Agent: Information Acquisition, Marginality and the Media, Journal of Theoretical Politics, 19(3), 249-276 [2007]

- Does Political Knowledge Increase Turnout? Evidence from the 1997 British General Election, Public Choice, 131, 387-411. [2007]

- Voting over Redistribution and the Size of the Welfare State: the Role of Turnout , Political Studies, 55, 568-585. [2007]

- Allocating the US Federal Budget to the States: the Impact of the President (with Leo Rizzo & Cecilia Testa), Journal of Politics, 68 (2), 447-456. [2006] Click here for statistical appendix

- Electoral Competition and Redistribution with Rationally Informed Voters, Contributions to Economic Analysis & Policy: Vol. 4: No. 1, Article 4. [2005]

- Personal and Household Income Taxation in a Progressive Tax System: Evidence from Italy, Economics Bulletin, Vol. 8, No. 1, pp. 1-9. [2005]

Other academic publications

- The Political Economy of Public Spending: Evidence from the US States (with James Snyder and Cecilia Testa), in Fabio Padovano & Alessandro Petretto (eds.) Public Choice and Political Economy, pp. 143-163, Franco Angeli [2010]

- Review of "Communication Revolutions: Critical Junctures and the Future of Media" by R.W. McChesney, Journal of Economics, 95(3), 271-276. [2008]

- The Channeled Italian Voters, in Fabio Padovano & Roberto Ricciuti (eds.) Institutional Reforms in Italy: a Public Choice Perspective, pp 221-247, Springer. [2008]

click here for other writings (mostly in Italian)

l ink to my webpage at the Department of Government

link to my STICERD webpage

video: how elections are financed in Italy (in Italian)

video: euro crisis and Italian credibility