Recent Interests and Research Papers

My research interests cover the following areas: the economics of education; urban economics; issues in applied growth; the economics of 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:

‘Free to Improve? The Impact of Free School Attendance in England' (with M. Bertoni and G. Haller-Sahlgren); CEP DP1946, LSE.

‘Judge Dread: Court Severity, Repossession Risk and Demand in Mortgage and Housing Markets’ (with P. Montebruno-Bondi and N. Szumilo); CEP DP1766 and Department of Geography and Environment Paper 25, LSE.

‘Marshall at the Times of Marshall’ (with F. Boeri and P. Montebruno-Bondi ); mimeo, LSE (preliminary draft available upon request).

‘School Types: Evidence on the Relative Effectiveness of Different School Arrangements’ (with M. Bertoni, F. Gonschorek and T. Klein), work-in-progress, LSE.

‘The Organizational Economics of School Chains’ (with L. Neri and E. Pasini); IZA DP15442, LSE.

 

Refereed Journal Articles and Chapters:

'School Choice During a Period of Radical Reform. Evidence from the Academy Programme' (with M. Bertoni and S. Gibbons); Economic Policy, vol. 35(104), pp. 739-795 (previously IZA DP 11162; link to web-appendix).

'Tales of the City: What Do Agglomeration Cases Tell Us About Agglomeration in General?’ (with G. Faggio and W. Strange); Journal of Economic Geography, vol. 20(5), pp. 1117-1143, 2020 (previously CEP DP1619).  

‘The Bedroom Tax’ (with S. Gibbons and M. Sanchez-Vidal); Regional Science and Urban Economics, vol. 82(2020), pp. 1-13, 2020 (previously CEP DP 1537).

'Mortgage Debt and Entrepreneurship' (with P. Bracke and C. Hilber); Journal of Urban Economics, vol. 103(1), pp. 52-66 (previously Bank of England Staff WP 560).

'Academies 2: The New Batch' (with A. Eyles and S. Maching); Fiscal Studies, vol. 39(1), pp. 121-158 (previously CEP DP 1370).

‘Neighbourhood Turnover and Teenage Attainment’ (with S. Gibbons and F. Weinhardt); Journal of the European Economic Association, vol. 15(4), pp. 746-783, 2017 (previously IZA DP 8381).

'Heterogeneous Agglomeration' (with G. Faggio and W. Strange); Review of Economics and Statistics, vol. 99(1), pp. 80-94, 2017 (previously SERC DP 0152; link to the web-appendix).

'Self-Employment and Entrepreneurship in Urban and Rural Labour Markets' (with G. Faggio); Journal of Urban Economics, vol. 83(1), pp. 67-85, 2014 (previously SERC DP 0109).

'Targeting Non-Cognitive Skill to Improve Cognitive Outcomes: Evidence from a Remedial Education Intervention' (with H. Holmlund); Journal of Human Capital, vol. 8(2), pp. 126-160 (previously IZA DP 4476).

‘School Structure, School Autonomy and The Tail’ (with S. Machin), in P. Marshall (ed.), The Tail – How England’s Schools Fail One Child In Five and What Can be Done, Profile Books, 2013 (also available as CEP Special Paper CEPSP29).

'Everybody Needs Good Neighbours? Evidence from Students' Outcomes in England' (with S. Gibbons and F. Weinhardt); Economic Journal, vol. 123, pp. 831-874, 2013 (previously IZA DP 5980).

'Valuing School Quality Using Boundary Discontinuity Regressions' (with S. Gibbons and S. Machin); Journal of Urban Economics, vol. 75(1), pp. 15-28, 2013 (previously SERC DP 0018).

'The Good, The Bad and The Average: Evidence on Ability Peer Effects in Schools' (with V. Lavy and F. Weinhardt); Journal of Labor Economics, vol. 30(2), pp. 367-414, 2012 (previously NBER WP 15600).

'Faith Primary Schools: Better Schools or Better Pupils?' (with S. Gibbons), Journal of Labor Economics, vol. 29(3), pp. 589-635, 2011 (previously IZA DP 4089).

'School Quality, Child Wellbeing and Parents' Satisfaction' (with S. Gibbons), Economics of Education Review, vol. 30(2), pp. 312-331, 2011 (previously CEE DP 103).

'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 by 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 (for the 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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