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Selected publications


Do Cash Transfers Improve Birth Outcomes? Evidence from Matched Vital Statistics, Social Security and Program Data, (with V. Amarante, E. Miguel and A. Vigorito), forthcoming, American Economic Journal: Economic Policy. [paper]


"The Effect of Violence on Birth Outcomes: Evidence from Homicides in Brazil", with M. Koppensteiner, Journal of Development Economics, Volume 119, March 2016,16-33. [paper]


The Cost of Grade Retention, Review of Economics and Statistics, 94, May 2012.[paper]


School Proximity and Child Labor: Evidence from Rural Tanzania, (with F. Kondylis), Journal of Human Resources , 47(1), 2012.[paper]


The Impact of Immigration on the Structure of Male Wages: Theory and Evidence from Britain, (with A. Manning and J. Wadsworth), Journal of the European Economic Association, February 2012.[paper]


Government Transfers and Political Support (with E. Miguel and A. Vigorito), American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 3(3), July 2011 (lead article). [paper]


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


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


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]


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]



Working papers


Liberation Technology: Mobile Phones and Political Mobilization in Africa (with A. Tesei), February 2016, R&R, Econometrica. [paper]


Politics in the Family: Nepotism and the Hiring Decisions of Italian Firms (with. Stefano Gagliarducci, March 2016, submitted.[paper]


Pathways from school to work in the developing world (with G. Dachille, F. Rosati and M. Ranzani), IZA DP 946, October 2015, submitted. [paper]