Courses a.y. 2024/2025
Biographical note
I am associate professor of Economics at Bocconi University, Department of Social and Political Sciences.
I am also Research Associate at the Dondena Centre for Research on Social Dynamics and Public Policy, chair of the scientific committee of Fondazione Roberto Franceschi, and founding member of the Forum Disuguaglianze e DiversitĂ . I am member of the editorial board of the Journal of Economic Policy.
Before joining Bocconi, I was assistant professor of Public Economics at the University of Trieste, associate professor of Economics at Pompeu Fabra University, and professor of Macroeconomics at the Master in Business Administration, SDA Bocconi.
I hold a PhD in Economics from Pompeu Fabra University, and a MSc in Economics and Social Sciences from Bocconi University.
Research interests
Public economics, Migration, Labour Economics.
Selected Publications
Downgraded dreams: labor market outcomes and mental health in undocumented migration
SSM - POPULATION HEALTH, 2024
Avoidable hospitalizations and access to primary care: comparisons among Italians, resident immigrants and undocumented immigrants in administrative hospital discharge records
ECLINICALMEDICINE, 2022
Immigrants and legal status: do personal contacts matter?
POPULATION SPACE & PLACE, 2021
Tolerant or segregated? Immigration and electoral outcomes in urban areas
PAPERS IN REGIONAL SCIENCE, 2021
Health care for undocumented immigrants during the early phase of the Covid-19 pandemic in Lombardy, Italy
EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF PUBLIC HEALTH, 2020
Longitudinal employment trajectories and health in middle life: insights from linked administrative and survey data
DEMOGRAPHIC RESEARCH, 2019
Employment of undocumented immigrants and the prospect of legal status: evidence from an Amnesty program
INDUSTRIAL & LABOR RELATIONS REVIEW, 2018
Inequities in immigrants’ access to health care services: disentangling potential barriers
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MANPOWER, 2016
Social Networks, Information and Health Care Utilization: Evidence from Undocumented Immigrants in Milan
JOURNAL OF HEALTH ECONOMICS, 2008
Capital-skill Complementarity and the Redistributive Effects of Social Security Reform
JOURNAL OF PUBLIC ECONOMICS, 2008