I am an Assistant Professor at Collegio Carlo Alberto and a researcher at the University of Turin (ESOMAS).
Research
Working Papers-
Demographic Transition and Structural Transformation [updated September 2026] (with Tania Barham, Randall Kuhn, and Patrick Turner) [STEG Working Paper]
Notoriety: STEG
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Immigrants, Imports, and Welfare: Evidence from Household Purchase Data [updated July 2026] (with Christoph Albert and Torsten Jaccard)
Notoriety: Wim Meeusen Prize 2024
- Research Choices of Agentic Artificial Intelligence, October 2026, Vol. 269, Economics Letters
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Immigrants, Legal Status, and Illegal Trade, November 2024, Vol. 152, Journal of International Economics
[published version] [replication package]
Notoriety: Political Violence at a Glance, Nada es Gratis (in Spanish), How to Sell Drugs (podcast), Young Italian Economist Award 2021
- How Much Are Car Purchases Driven by Home Equity Withdrawal? Evidence from Household Surveys (with Daniel J. Vine and Karen Pence), 2019, Vol. 51, No. 5, Journal of Money, Credit, and Banking.
- When Local News Ownership Changes: Minority Group Portrayals and Hate Crime in the United States (with Wookun Kim and Jun Luo).
- Is Underemployment Underestimated? Evidence from Panel Data (with Geng Li), May 2016, FEDS Notes.
Software
Tads — a lightning-fast desktop viewer for Parquet and CSV files with Stata-style data exploration: browse millions of rows instantly, filter, pivot, and compute summary statistics with familiar commands.
Download: Windows, macOS (Apple Silicon), macOS (Intel), Linux [all releases, GitHub]
Resources
- Generative AI and Economics Research [slides, March 2026]