Research

Working Papers

Optimal Unemployment Insurance Financing: Theory and Evidence from Two U.S. States 

     -- Revise and Resubmit, Quarterly Journal of Economics; 

-- Awards: NTA Honorable Mention 2024;  Upjohn Institute Honorable Mention 2024.

Meet Your Future: Experimental Evidence on the Labor Market Effects of Mentors, with L. Alfonsi and M. Namubiru.  

-- Conditionally accepted based on pre-results review, Journal of Development Economics;  

-- Award: SIEP Etta Chiuri Prize 2023; 

-- Coverage: VoxDev Blog Post.

Publications

Gender Gaps: Back and Here to Stay? Evidence from Skilled Ugandan Workers during COVID-19, with L. Alfonsi and M. Namubiru.  Review of Economics of the Household (2023)  

--Ungated: View Only Open Version; Final Draft;  

--Coverage: IGC Blog Post.

Can Gender Quotas Break the Glass Ceiling? Evidence from Italian Municipal Elections

European Journal of Political Economy (2022)  

--Ungated: Summary Video; Final Draft. 

Work in progress

Designing Severance Insurance: Theory and Evidence from Ethiopia, with G. Abebe, S. Caria, F. Gerard, and L. Hensel.  Baseline data collection completed. 

--Conditionally accepted based on pre-results review, Journal of Development Economics.

Labor Market Effects of Incomplete Wage Taxation, with J. Gruber and A. Guo.  Analysis stage.

Women for Women? Public Response to Gender-Based Violence in Italy, with G. Conti, G. Facchini and F. Marazzi. Data collection in progress.

Data in progress

U.S. Unemployment Insurance Financing Policies Database  

“Each state has stacks of statistics, but they lie largely unused for policy purposes.” R. Lester, 1962, The Economics of Unemployment Compensation.