Publications

• "Peers at Work" (with A. Mas)

American Economic Review, forthcoming [Paper]

• "The Demand for Sons" (with G. Dahl)

Review of Economic Studies, forthcoming [Paper]

• “Biological Gender Differences, Absenteeism and the Earning Gap” (with A. Ichino)

American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, forthcoming [Paper]

• "Biology As Destiny? Short and Long-Run Determinants of Intergenerational Transmission of Birth Weight" (with J. Currie)

Journal of Labor Economics, 25(2), 2007 [Paper]

• "Did Iraq Cheat the United Nations? Underpricing, Bribes, and the Oil for Food Program" (with C. Hsieh)

Quarterly Journal of Economics,  121(4), 2006 [Paper]

• "Why Do Most Italian Youths Live With Their Parents? Intergenerational Transfers and Household Structure " (with M. Manacorda)

Journal of the European Economic Association, 4(4), 2006 [Paper]

• "Extreme Weather Events, Mortality and Migration" (with O. Deschenes)

Review of Economics and Statistics,   forthcoming [Paper]

• "The Dynamics of Criminal Behavior" (with B. Jacob and L. Lefgren)

Journal of Human Resources, 42(3), 2007 [Paper]

• "Does Voting Technology Affect Election Outcomes? Touch-screen Voting and the 2004 Presidential Elections" (with D. Card)
  Review of Economics and Statistics,   89(4), 2007 [Paper]

• “Private and Social Returns to Education”

Rivista di Politica Economica, 96 (5-6), 2006.

• "Does Managed Care Hurt Health? Evidence from Medicaid Mothers" (with A. Aizer and J. Currie)

Review of Economics and Statistics,   89(3), 2007 [Paper]

• "Workers' Education, Spillovers and Productivity: Evidence from Plant-Level Production Functions" 

American Economic Review 94(3), 2004 [Paper] [Codes]

• "The Effect of Education on Criminal Activity: Evidence from Prison Inmates, Arrests and Self-Reports" (with L. Lochner)

American Economic Review   94(1), 2004 [Paper] [Data]

• "Do Voters Affect or Elect Policies? Evidence from the U.S. House " (with D. Lee and M. Butler)

Quarterly Journal of Economics 119(3), 2004 [Paper] [Data]

• "Can Free Entry be Inefficient? Fixed Commissions and Social Waste in the Real Estate Industry" (with C. Hsieh)

Journal of Political Economy 111(5), 2003 [Paper]

• "Mother's Education and the Intergenerational Transmission of Human Capital: Evidence from College Openings " (with J. Currie)

Quarterly Journal of Economics   118(4), 2003 [Paper]

• "Estimating the Social Return to Higher Education: Evidence From Longitudinal and Repeated Cross-Sectional Data"

Journal of Econometrics 121(1-2), 2004 [Paper]

• "A Small Sample Estimator For Sample Selection" (with A. Golan and J. Perloff)

Econometric Reviews   23(1), 2004 [Paper]

• "Human Capital Externalities in Cities"

Handbook of Regional and Urban Economics, North Holland-Elsevier, 2004 [Paper]

• "Does Education Improve Citizenship? Evidence from the U.S. and the U.K." (with K. Milligan and P. Oreopoulos)

Journal of Public Economics 88(9-10), 2004 [Paper]

• “Is Social Capital the Capital of the Poor? The Role of Family and Community in Helping Insure Living Standards Against Health Shocks”

(with P. Gertler and D. Levine), CESifo Economic Studies, 2006.

• Do Microfinance Programs Help Families Insure Consumption Against Illness?

(with P. Gertler and D. Levine), Health Economics, forthcoming.

• “Did the Introduction of Food Stamps Affect Birth Outcomes in California?” (with J. Currie),

in ""Making Americans Healthier", Russell Sage, 2008.

• “Crime and the Costs of Criminal Justice”

in "The Price We Pay: Economic and Social Consequences of Inadequate Education", Brookings Institution Press, 2007.

• "Do Wages Compensate for Risk of Unemployment? Parametric and Semiparametric Evidence from Seasonal Jobs"

Journal of Risk and Uncertainty 20(1), 2000

• "An Information Based Sample Selection Model of Agricultural Workers' Choice Between Piece Rate and Hourly Work" (with A. Golan and J. Perloff)

American Journal of Agricultural Economics 81(3), 2000

• "Use of Public Transfer Programs and Private Aid by Farm Workers" (with J. Perloff)

Industrial Relations 39(1), 2000

• "Efficiency Wages and Deferred Payments in Agriculture" (with J. Perloff)

American Journal of Agricultural Economics 84(4), 2002

• "Social Networks and Migrations: Italy 1876-1913"

International Migration Review 33(3), 1999

• "Optimal Environmental Policies Under Uncertainty and Irreversibility" (in Italian)

Il Giornale degli Economisti 52(1-3), 1993