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Short-id: ple964

Working Papers

2024

1. Causal inference and policy evaluation without a control group
   Papers, arXiv.org

2023

2. Too Rare to Dare ? Leveraging Household Surveys to Boost Research on Climate Migration
   Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank

2022

3. Market proximity, resilience, and food security: A cross-country empirical analysis
   Working Papers, Sapienza University of Rome, DISS
4. Understanding the Climate Change-Migration Nexus through the Lens of Household Surveys: An Empirical Review to Assess Data Gaps
   Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank

2021

5. Electoral Earthquake: Natural Disasters and the Geography of Discontent
   GLO Discussion Paper Series, Global Labor Organization (GLO) View citations (1)
   Also in Discussion Paper series in Regional Science & Economic Geography, Gran Sasso Science Institute, Social Sciences (2021) View citations (1)
6. Local inequalities of the COVID-19 crisis
   GLO Discussion Paper Series, Global Labor Organization (GLO) View citations (3)
   See also Journal Article Local inequalities of the COVID-19 crisis, Regional Science and Urban Economics, Elsevier (2022) View citations (12) (2022)
7. Was there a COVID-19 harvesting effect in Northern Italy?
   Papers, arXiv.org View citations (2)

2020

8. Local economies amidst the COVID-19 crisis in Italy: a tale of diverging trajectories
   MPRA Paper, University Library of Munich, Germany View citations (4)
9. Local mortality estimates during the COVID-19 pandemic in Italy
   Discussion Paper series in Regional Science & Economic Geography, Gran Sasso Science Institute, Social Sciences View citations (7)
   Also in Working Papers, Sapienza University of Rome, DISS (2020) View citations (8)
   See also Journal Article Local mortality estimates during the COVID-19 pandemic in Italy, Journal of Population Economics, Springer (2021) View citations (21) (2021)
10. Predicting Corruption Crimes with Machine Learning. A Study for the Italian Municipalities
    Working Papers, Sapienza University of Rome, DISS View citations (2)

2018

11. Resilience thresholds to temperature shocks in rural Tanzania: a long-run assessment
    Working Papers, Sapienza University of Rome, DISS

2017

12. Temperature shocks, growth and poverty thresholds: evidence from rural Tanzania
    Working Paper Series, Department of Economics, University of Sussex Business School
    Also in Working Papers, Sapienza University of Rome, DISS (2017)

2016

13. Weather, climate and total factor productivity
    Working Paper Series, Department of Economics, University of Sussex Business School View citations (19)
    See also Journal Article Weather, Climate and Total Factor Productivity, Environmental & Resource Economics, Springer (2019) View citations (68) (2019)

Journal Articles

2023

1. Electoral earthquake: Local shocks and authoritarian voting
   European Economic Review, 2023, 156, (C) View citations (4)

2022

2. Gotham city. Predicting ‘corrupted’ municipalities with machine learning
   Technological Forecasting and Social Change, 2022, 184, (C) View citations (2)
3. Local inequalities of the COVID-19 crisis
   Regional Science and Urban Economics, 2022, 92, (C) View citations (12)
   See also Working Paper Local inequalities of the COVID-19 crisis, GLO Discussion Paper Series (2021) View citations (3) (2021)
4. Predicting household resilience with machine learning: preliminary cross-country tests
   Empirical Economics, 2022, 63, (4), 2057-2070 View citations (2)
5. Weather shocks, traders' expectations, and food prices
   American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 2022, 104, (3), 1100-1119 View citations (10)

2021

6. Local mortality estimates during the COVID-19 pandemic in Italy
   Journal of Population Economics, 2021, 34, (4), 1189-1217 View citations (21)
   See also Working Paper Local mortality estimates during the COVID-19 pandemic in Italy, Discussion Paper series in Regional Science & Economic Geography (2020) View citations (7) (2020)

2020

7. Evaluating Program Impact on Resilience: Evidence from Lesotho’s Child Grants Programme
   Journal of Development Studies, 2020, 56, (12), 2212-2234 View citations (10)

2019

8. Recovering the counterfactual as part of ex-ante impact assessments: an application to the PASIDP – II project in Ethiopia
   Economics Bulletin, 2019, 39, (3), 1844-1854
9. Resilience Thresholds to Temperature Anomalies: A Long-run Test for Rural Tanzania
   Ecological Economics, 2019, 164, (C), - View citations (4)
10. Spatial heterogeneity in price (dis)incentives: evidence from the Ugandan maize value chain
    Economics Bulletin, 2019, 39, (1), 495-501
11. Weather, Climate and Total Factor Productivity
    Environmental & Resource Economics, 2019, 73, (1), 283-305 View citations (68)
    See also Working Paper Weather, climate and total factor productivity, Working Paper Series (2016) View citations (19) (2016)

2018

12. Temperature shocks, short-term growth and poverty thresholds: Evidence from rural Tanzania
    World Development, 2018, 112, (C), 13-32 View citations (25)
13. The impact of cultural policies in Apulia. Factual and counterfactual assessment on touristic attractiveness
    Economia della Cultura, 2018, (4), 491-508