Published Papers

'Minimum Wages and Earnings Inequality in Urban Mexico. Revisiting the Evidence', (with Mariano Bosch), forthcoming, American Economic Journal: Applied Economics. [paper]

'Industrial Structure and Child Labor. Evidence from Brazil', (with Furio Rosati), forthcoming, Economic Development and Cultural Change.

'Changes in Returns to Education in Latin America: The Role of Demand and Supply of Skills',(with Carolina Sanchez-Paramo and Norbert Schady), Industrial and Labor Relations Review, p.307-326, 63, January 2010.

'Local Labor Demand and Child Labor', (with Furio Rosati), forthcoming, Research in Labor Economics (special issue on Child Labor).

'Giving Children a Better Start: Preschool Attendance and School-Age Profiles', (with Samuel Berlinski and Sebastian Galiani), Journal of Public Economics, 92 (5), p.1416-1440, June 2008. [paper]

'Child Labor and the Labor Supply of Other Household Members: Evidence from 1920 America', American Economic Review, December 2006, 96(5) 1788-1800. [paper].

'Why Do Most Italian Young Men Live With Their Parents? Intergenerational Transfers and Household Structure', (with Enrico Moretti), Journal of the European Economic Association, 4 (4), 2006, 800-829. [paper]     

'Can the Scala Mobile Explain the Fall and Rise of Earnings Inequality in Italy? A Semiparametric Analysis, 1977-1993', Journal of Labor Economics, 2004, vol. 22, no. 3, 585-613. [paper]

'Regional Mismatch and Unemployment. Theory and Evidence from Italy, 1977-1998', (with B. Petrongolo), Journal of Population Economics, vol. 19, 1, 137-162, 2006.[paper]

'Shifts in the Demand and Supply of Skills in the OECD', (with Alan Manning), Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 69, 2007, 635-666.

Working Papers Submitted

'The Cost of Grade Retention', December 2009, revise and resubmit, The Review of Economics and Statistics. [paper].

'The Impact of Immigration on the Structure of Male Wages: Theory and Evidence from Britain', (with Alan Manning and Jonathan Wadsworth), June 2009, revise and resubmit, Journal of the European Economic Association. [paper]

'Governement Transfers and Political Support', (with Ted Miguel and Andrea Vigorito), revised January 2010, submitted. [paper]

Older Papers

'Skills Mismatch and Unemployment in OECD Countries' (with B. Petrongolo), Economica, 66, 181-207, 1999.