Published research
Publications
Titles link to the publisher or official publication page. Publications are grouped as in the academic CV.
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Books, Chapters, Research Reports and Entries
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Infrastrutture Scolastiche e Stradali: Criticità e Valutazione degli Effetti delle Politiche di Intervento sul Territorio CalabreseResearch report commissioned by FENEAL UIL Calabria, 2022
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Current research
Research
Working papers include abstracts. Early-stage projects are listed separately under work in progress.
Working Papers
When the Right to Work from Home Works Submitted
with M. De Paola and M. Francesconi
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We estimate the labor market effects of Italy’s statutory priority to work from home (WFH) for parents of children under age twelve. Using population-wide administrative data and a sharp regression discontinuity design, we find that eligibility raises mothers’ annual earnings by 1.6–2.3 percent in high-WFH-intensity firms, alongside increases in paid days and weeks. Mothers in low-WFH-intensity firms and fathers in general show no detectable effects. The estimates have an intention-to-treat interpretation and persist beyond the pandemic. Placebo tests show no effects before the pandemic, in firms that never adopted WFH, or among manual workers, consistent with a WFH mechanism.
Running a Tight Ship: Female Political Representation and Discretion in Public Procurement Submitted
with P. Giacobbe and A. Mosca
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This paper examines whether female political representation affects the use of discretion in local public procurement. Combining Italian municipal political records with contract-level procurement data for 2010–2019, we exploit Law 56/2014, which mandated gender balance in executive committees above 3,000 inhabitants. We instrument the female share of aldermen with reform exposure, jointly determined by population eligibility and first post-reform election timing. A one-standard-deviation increase in women’s representation lowers direct awards and threshold bunching by 0.19 and 0.33 standard deviations, respectively. It also increases the number of bidders, without affecting repeat winners or worsening contract governance. Direct-award effects extend across several sectors, while disability-related procurement shows both a larger contract share and less threshold bunching. The findings are not explained by educational selection or mayoral gender, are larger in the South, and remain robust across alternative samples and specifications, placebo tests, and staggered difference-in-differences estimates.
Work in Progress
Do Dedicated Victim-Support Spaces Increase Sexual Crime Reporting? Evidence from Listening Rooms in Italy In progress
with D. De Luca, P. Ordine and G. Rose
From Funds to Frontiers: How PON E&C Shapes Efficiency in Italian Manufacturing Sector In progress
with C. Mastromarco
Tax Evasion, Quality of Public Expenditure and Deterrence: A Theoretical Model In progress
with E. D’Agostino and G. Sobbrio
Courses and instruction
Teaching
Undergraduate, postgraduate and doctoral teaching in public economics, economic policy, microeconomics, macroeconomics, statistics and econometrics.
University of Calabria
2025–2026
Public Economics, B.Sc. in Economics; Principles of Economics and Economics of the Public Sector, B.Sc. in Political Science and International Relations.
2024–2025
Public Economics, B.Sc. in Economics; Principles of Economics and Economic Policy, B.Sc. in Political Science.
2023–2024
Public Economics, B.Sc. in Economics; Principles of Economics, B.Sc. in Political Science; Microeconomics, B.Sc. in Business Administration.
2022–2023
Public Economics, B.Sc. in Economics; Collective Choice and Public Intervention, B.Sc. in Public Administration.
2021–2022
Macroeconomics, B.Sc. in Economics; Collective Choice and Public Intervention, B.Sc. in Public Administration.
2020–2021
Applied Econometrics using Stata, Ph.D. in Economics; Macroeconomics, B.Sc. in Economics; Collective Choice and Public Intervention, B.Sc. in Public Administration.
University of Messina
2018–2019
Public Economics across Economics, Political Science and Public Administration programs; Microeconomics, B.Sc. in Economics.
2017–2018
Statistics Pre-module, Master in Banking and Finance; Public Economics, B.Sc. in Political Science; Econometrics, B.Sc. in Economics, Banking and Finance.
2016–2017
Applied Econometrics using Stata, Ph.D. in Economics, Management and Statistics; Econometrics; Public Economics, undergraduate and postgraduate programs.
2015–2016
Statistics, Ph.D. in Economics, Management and Statistics; Public Economics, B.Sc. in Marketing and Management.
2014–2015
Regional Economics, M.Sc. in Economics; Mathematics, Ph.D. in Economics, Management and Statistics.
International and Other Teaching
October 2025
Education and Human Capital, Universidad Pablo de Olavide, Seville, through the Erasmus Programme.
April 2025
Evaluation of Education Policies, IMPACT – Scuole di Politiche, University of Calabria.
January 2024
The Role of the State in the Modern Economy and Public Intervention and Fiscal Federalism, Master in Management of Public Administrations, University of Calabria.
2012–2018
Lecturer in mathematics, statistics, econometrics and quantitative methods at Queen Mary University of London.
2011–2012
Lecturer in Quantitative Methods, M.Sc. in Finance, BPP Business School, London and Manchester.
A complete year-by-year teaching record is available in the Curriculum Vitae.
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