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Articles in International Academic Journals/Scholarly Articles

Articles in Italian Journals

  • “L’economia dei conflitti nei paesi in via di sviluppo”, Rivista Italiana degli Economisti, 12(3), 39-53, 2007.
  • “Public Capital and Economic Performance: Evidence from Italy,” with F. Bonaglia and M. Marcellino, Giornale degli Economisti e Annali di Economia, 60(2), 221-44, 2000.

Working Papers

Research Papers/Reports

Reviews and Chapters in Books

  • “The Media as a Tool for Institutional Change in Development”, in J.-M. Baland, F. Bourguignon, J.-P. Platteau and T. Verdier (eds), The Handbook of Economic Development and Institutions, Princeton University Press, January 2020.
  • “Social and Economic Impacts of the Media” (with S. DellaVigna), in S. Anderson, D. Stromberg and J. Walfogel (eds.), Handbook of Media Economics, Elsevier, 2015.
  • “Financial markets and conflict in the developing world”, in T. Besley and R. Jayaraman (eds.), Institutional Microeconomics of Development, MIT Press, 2010, ch. 3.
  • “Family and kinship ties in development: An economist’s perspective”, in J.-P. Platteau (ed.), Culture, Institutions and Development, Routledge, 2010, ch. 5.
  • “TFP, Costs, and Infrastructure: An Equivocal Relationship” (with M. Marcellino), in M. Artis, A. Banerjee and M. Marcellino (eds.), The Central and Eastern European Countries and the European Union, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005.
  • “Solidarity in Heterogeneous Communities”, in Ph. Van Parijs (ed.), Cultural Diversity versus Economic Solidarity, Bruxelles: De Boeck, 2004.
  • Book Review of “Income Distribution and High Quality Growth’’ (edited by V. Tanzi and K. Chu), The Economic Journal, 110(461), F234-6, 2000.
  • “Exchange Allocation Mechanism Reform’’ (with G. Castillo and J. Nash), in J. Nash and F. Foroutan (eds), Trade Policy and Exchange Rate Reform in Sub-Saharan Africa, ch.4, National Centre for Development Studies, The Australian National University, 1997.
  • “Public Debt”, in R.E. Hall e J.B. Taylor, Macroeconomics, Milan: Hoepli, ch.14, 1995.

Ongoing Projects

  • Changing Harmful Norms through Information and Coordination: Experimental Evidence from Somalia (with P. De Souza, S. Gulseci, D. Smerdon and M. Sulaiman).
  • Norms Replacement: A Field Experiment on ending Female Genital Cutting (with L. Corno).
  • Turkish Soap Operas and Women’s Empowerment in Egypt (with S. Gulesci and D. Ubfal).
  • The Nerds, the Cool and the Central: Peer Education and Teen Pregnancy in Brazil (with E. Baumgartner, E. Breza, V. Orozco and P. Rosa-Dias).
  • Impact of the Land Tenure Regularization program in Rwanda (with D. Ali, K. Deininger and M. Goldstein).
  • Property Rights and Women’s Empowerment in Côte d’Ivoire (with A. Donald, M. Goldstein, A. Hartmann, M. O’Sullivan and A. Voena).