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Working Papers

2026

1. Violence, Political Selection, and State Formation: Evidence from Post-Unification Italy
   CEPR Discussion Papers, Centre for Economic Policy Research

2025

2. Building Consistent Territorial Units over Time: A Graph-Based Method for Historical Municipal Boundaries in Italy
   CEPR Discussion Papers, Centre for Economic Policy Research
3. From Fields to Factories: Malaria Eradication and Structural Transformation in Post-War Italy
   CEPR Discussion Papers, Centre for Economic Policy Research
4. Smithian Growth in Britain before the Industrial Revolution, 1500-1800
   CEPR Discussion Papers, Centre for Economic Policy Research
   Also in Economic History Working Papers, London School of Economics and Political Science, Department of Economic History (2025)

2023

5. Persistent Specialization and Growth: The Italian Land Reform
   CEPR Discussion Papers, Centre for Economic Policy Research
   See also Journal Article Persistent specialization and growth: The Italian land reform, Explorations in Economic History, Elsevier (2026) (2026)

2022

6. Persistent Specialization and Growth
   Research Report, University of Groningen, Research Institute SOM (Systems, Organisations and Management)
7. State Formation, Social Unrest and Cultural Distance: Brigandage in Post-Unification Italy
   CEPR Discussion Papers, Centre for Economic Policy Research

2021

8. Birth and Migration of Scientists: Does Religiosity Matter? Evidence from 19th-Century France
   Development Working Papers, Centro Studi Luca d'Agliano, University of Milano View citations (16)
   See also Journal Article Birth and migration of scientists: Does religiosity matter? Evidence from 19th-century France, Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, Elsevier (2021) View citations (8) (2021)
9. Mobilization and the Strategy of Populism Theory and Evidence from the United States
   CEPR Discussion Papers, Centre for Economic Policy Research View citations (11)
10. Resistance to Institutions and Cultural Distance: Brigandage in Post-Unification Italy
    Development Working Papers, Centro Studi Luca d'Agliano, University of Milano
    Also in Cowles Foundation Discussion Papers, Cowles Foundation for Research in Economics, Yale University (2017) View citations (2)
    Cowles Foundation Discussion Papers, Cowles Foundation for Research in Economics, Yale University (2017) View citations (1)

2019

11. Intertemporal Evidence on the Strategy of Populism
    CEPR Discussion Papers, Centre for Economic Policy Research View citations (2)
    Also in Working Papers, IGIER (Innocenzo Gasparini Institute for Economic Research), Bocconi University (2019) View citations (1)

2017

12. Institutional Transplant and Cultural Proximity: Evidence from Nineteenth-Century Prussia
    Working Papers, IGIER (Innocenzo Gasparini Institute for Economic Research), Bocconi University View citations (4)
    Also in CESifo Working Paper Series, CESifo (2015) View citations (1)
    See also Journal Article Institutional Transplant and Cultural Proximity: Evidence from Nineteenth-Century Prussia, The Journal of Economic History, Cambridge University Press (2019) View citations (8) (2019)

2011

13. The Electoral Consequences of Large Fiscal Adjustments
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations (65)
    See also Chapter The Electoral Consequences of Large Fiscal Adjustments, NBER Chapters, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc (2012) View citations (18) (2012)

Journal Articles

2026

1. Persistent specialization and growth: The Italian land reform
   Explorations in Economic History, 2026, 100, (C)
   See also Working Paper Persistent Specialization and Growth: The Italian Land Reform, CEPR Discussion Papers (2023) (2023)

2022

2. State formation, social unrest and cultural distance
   Journal of Economic Growth, 2022, 27, (3), 453-483 View citations (2)

2021

3. Birth and migration of scientists: Does religiosity matter? Evidence from 19th-century France
   Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2021, 187, (C), 274-289 View citations (8)
   See also Working Paper Birth and Migration of Scientists: Does Religiosity Matter? Evidence from 19th-Century France, Development Working Papers (2021) View citations (16) (2021)

2019

4. Institutional Transplant and Cultural Proximity: Evidence from Nineteenth-Century Prussia
   The Journal of Economic History, 2019, 79, (4), 1060-1093 View citations (8)
   See also Working Paper Institutional Transplant and Cultural Proximity: Evidence from Nineteenth-Century Prussia, Working Papers (2017) View citations (4) (2017)

Chapters

2012

1. The Electoral Consequences of Large Fiscal Adjustments
   A chapter in Fiscal Policy after the Financial Crisis, 2012, pp 531-570 View citations (18)
   See also Working Paper The Electoral Consequences of Large Fiscal Adjustments, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc (2011) View citations (65) (2011)