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I was born
in Lecce (Italy) where
I spent my first eighteen years. Then I moved to Milan where I met Paola and
I got my laurea at the Universita' "L.
Bocconi", final dissertation on Wage differentials
between Private and Public sectors. I worked as a researcher at the
Fondazione Rodolfo Debenedetti (FRDB) in
Milan, with Prof. Tito Boeri. I hold an MSc in
Economics from the University
of Warwick, final dissertation in applied microeconometrics,
advisor: Mark Stewart. My PhD is in development,
labor economics, applied microeconometrics, main advisor Richard Blundell,
at the Department of
Economics of the University College London. Paola and I got married
in Hackney, London, on May 4, 2006. In July 2006 I joined the Department of
Economics at Stanford University.
From August 2010 to July 2011 I have been on leave at UC-Berkeley. From August 2012 to June 2013 I will be on
leave at Columbia
University as the Wesley Mitchell visiting professor. I
will also be a regular visitor of the NY-Fed. I am currently working
on: Climate and development; Risk sharing and consumption insurance; Business
literacy and formalization; Indirect and general equilibrium effects of aid
policies; Demand estimation; Social interactions; Consumption inequality,
Migration; Evaluation of ALMP’s. My work has appeared in
the American Economic Review, the AEJ: applied, the Journal of Public
Economics, the Journal of the European Economic Association. I teach
Development Economics, Labor Economics, Economics of Human Resources,
Advanced Econometrics and co-organize the Applications-Development Seminar. |
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