In journals

Government Transfers and Political Support (with E. Miguel and A. Vigorito), American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 3 (3), July 2011 (lead article). href="http://personal.lse.ac.uk/manacorm/panes_paper.pdf">paper]


The Cost of Grade Retention, forthcoming, Review of Economics and Statistics.[paper]


School Proximity and Child Labor: Evidence from Rural Tanzania, (with F. Kondylis), forthcoming, Journal of Human Resources .[paper]


The Impact of Immigration on the Structure of Male Wages: Theory and Evidence from Britain, (with A. Manning and J. Wadsworth), forthcoming (with comments by D. Card, C. Dustmann and G. Borjas), Journal of the European Economic Association .[paper]


Minimum Wages and Earnings Inequality in Urban Mexico, with (M. Bosch), American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2(4), 2010.[paper]


Industrial Structure and Child Labor. Evidence from Brazil, (with F. C. Rosati), forthcoming, Economic Development and Cultural Change, 59(4), 2011. .


Local labor Demand and Child Labor, (with F. C. Rosati), Research in Labor Economics, 31, 2010.


Changes in Returns to Education in Latin America: The Role of Demand and Supply of Skills, (with C. Sanchez-Paramo and N. Schady), Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 63, 2010.[paper]


Giving Children a Better Start: Preschool Attendance and School-Age Profiles, (with S. Berlinski and S. Galiani), Journal of Public Economics, 92 (5), 2008.[paper]


Child Labor and the Labor Supply of Other Household Members, Evidence from 1920 America, American Economic Review, 96(5), 2006.[paper]


Why Do Most Italian Youths Live With Their Parents?, Intergenerational Transfers and Household Structure, (with E. Moretti), Journal of the European Economic Association, 4, 2006. [paper]


Shifts in the Demand and Supply of Skills. A single index model with a continuous distribution of skills, (with A. Manning), Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 69, 2007.


Regional Mismatch and Unemployment. Theory and Evidence from Italy, 1977-1998, (with B. Petrongolo), Journal of Population Economics, 19, 2006.


Can the Scala Mobile Explain the Fall and Rise of Earnings Inequality in Italy? A Semiparametric Analysis, 1977-1993, Journal of Labor Economics, 22, 2004.[paper]


Telecommunication reforms, access regulation, and Internet adoption in Latin America, (with Antonio Estache and Tommaso Valletti), Economia: Journal of the Latin American and Caribbean Economic Association, 2, 2002.


Skills Mismatch and Unemployment in OECD Countries, (with B. Petrongolo), Economica, 66, 1999.




Working papers

Do Cash Transfers Improve Birth Outcomes? Evidence from Matched Vital Statistics, Social Security and Program Data, (with V. Amarante, E. Miguel and A. Vigorito), December 2011. [paper]




Book chapters

Youths in the Labor Market and Transition from School to Work in Tanzania, (with F. Kondylis) in J. Fares and M. Garcia (eds.). Youth in Africas Labor Markets, The World Bank, Washington. D.C., 2008.


School-to-Work Transitions in Sub-Saharan Africa: an overview, (with L. Guarcello, F. Rosati, J. Fares, S. Lyon and C. Valdivia), in J. Fares and M. Garcia (eds.). Youth in Africas Labor Markets, The World Bank, Washington, D.C., 2008.


Wage Indexation and the Evolution of Returns to Education in Italy, 1979-1992, in Richard B. Freeman (ed.), Inequality Around the World, Palgrave, 2002.


European vs. US Unemployment: Different Responses to Increased Demand for Skills?, (with R. Jackman, R. Layard and B. Petrongolo) in R. Layard, Tackling Unemployment, MacMillan & S. Martin's Press, 1999.