Recent Interests and Research Papers

My research interests cover the following (rather broad...) areas: economics of education; urban economics; issues in applied growth; entrepreneurship. I mainly carry out applied research using micro-economic data; as a result I am also interested in applications of micro-econometrics and the study of causality.

Here below you can find some of my papers and work in progress. Please, send any feedback you might have!

 

Research Papers and Work in Progress

'Are Homeowners More Entrepreneurial?' (with C. Hilber); work-in-progress, 2009.

'Faith Primary Schools: Better Schools or Better Pupils?' (with S. Gibbons), mimeo 2007, updated as IZA DP 4089.

'School Quality, Child Wellbeing and Parents' Satisfaction' (with S. Gibbons); CEE DP 103.

'Targeting Non-Cognitive Skill to Improve Cognitive Outcomes: Evidence from a Remedial Education Intervention' (with H. Holmlund); IZA DP 4476.

'The Good, The Bad and The Average: Evidence on the Scale and Nature of Ability Peer Effects in Schools' (with V. Lavy and F. Weinhardt); NBER WP 15600.

'Valuing School Quality Using Boundary Discontinuity Regressions' (with S. Gibbons and S. Machin); SERC DP 0018.

 

Refereed Journal Articles and Chapters:

'Choice, Competition and Pupil Achievement' (with S. Gibbons and S. Machin), Journal of the European Economic Association, vol. 6(4), pp. 912-947, 2008 (previously IZA DP 2214).

'Urban Density and Pupil Attainment' (with S. Gibbons), Journal of Urban Economics, vol. 63(1), pp. 631-650, 2008 (previously IZA DP 2728).

'Why So Many Local Entrepreneurs?' (with C. Michelacci), Review of Economics and Statistics, vol. 89(4), pp. 615-633, 2007 (previously CEMFI WP 0506 and CEPR DP 5828).

'The Jack-of-All-Trades Entrepreneur: Innate Talent or Acquired Skill?', Economics Letters, vol. 97, pp. 118-123, 2007 (previously IZA DP 2264).

'New Technology in Schools: Is there a Payoff?' (with S. Machin and S. McNally), Economic Journal, vol. 117, pp.1145-1167, 2007 (previously IZA DP 2234). You can also access an online data appendix for this paper clicking here!

'Competition and Accessibility in School Markets: Empirical Analysis Using Boundary Discontinuities' (with S. Gibbons), in T.J. Gronberg and D.W. Jansen (eds.), IMPROVING SCHOOL ACCOUNTABILITY: CHECK-UPS OR CHOICE?, Advances in Applied Microeconomics, Vol.14, Elsevier, 2006 (working paper version click here).

'Not only Nokia: What Finland tells us about new economy growth' (with F. Daveri), Economic Policy, vol.19, issue 38, 2004.

'Web Appendix for Not only Nokia: What Finland tells us about new economy growth' (with F. Daveri), Economic Policy, vol.19, issue 38, 2004.

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