Publications

The Transmission of Health across Seven Generations in China, 1789-1906 (with J.F. Maystadt), Journal of Health Economics (2021), volume 79, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhealeco.2021.102493

Impacts of Great Recession on sport: evidence from english football league attendance demand (with B. Buraimo and R. Simmons)
Oxford Economic Papers, March (2021), https://doi.org/10.1093/oep/gpaa055.

Widespread swabs testing and the fight against the COVID-19 outbreak (with M. Fer- raresi, L. Rizzo, R. Secomandi), Regional Studies, Regional Science (2021), volume 8, https://doi.org/10.1080/21681376.2021.1897658

Spatial Variations and clustering in the rates of youth unemployment and NEET: A Comparative analysis of Italy, Spain and the UK (with S. Bradley and M. Navarro Paniagua)
Journal of Regional Science, November (2020), Volume 60, Issue 5, Pages 1074-1107. https://doi.org/10.1111/jors.12501.

Spatial Interaction in Spending Decisions among Italian Municipalities: An Empirical Analysis (with M. Ferraresi, F. Nordi, L. Rizzo, R. Secomandi)
Scienze Regionali, Italian Journal of Regional Science (2020), vol.2 pp. 249-273, doi: 10.14650/97088.

The effects of the 2006 tuition fee reform and the Great Recession on university student dropout behaviour in the UK (with S. Bradley)
Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, August (2019), Volume 164, Pages 331-356, doi: 10.1016/j.jebo.2019.06.002

Does Inter-municipal Cooperation promote efficiency gains? Evidence from Italian municipal unions (with M. Ferraresi and L. Rizzo)
Journal of Regional Science, November (2018), Volume 58, Issue 5, Pages 1017-1044.

Estimates of the Causal Effects of Education on Earnings over the Lifecycle with Cohort Effects and Endogenous Education (with I. Walker)
CESifo Economic Studies, September (2018), Volume 64, Issue 3, Pages 516-544

Spillover effects in local public spending (with M. Ferraresi and L. Rizzo) Regional Studies, January (2018), Volume 52, pp.1570-1584, https://doi.org/10.1080/00343404.2017.1415429.

Personality traits, forgone health care and high school dropout: Evidence from US ado- lescents (with E. Zucchelli)
Journal of Economic Psychology, October (2017), Volume 62, Pages 98-119.

An Analysis of Consumer Response to Corruption: Italys Calciopoli scandal (with B. Babatunde and R. Simmons)
Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, February (2016), vol.78, n.1, pp. 22-41.

The effects of the specialist schools education policy on school and post-school outcomes in England (with S. Bradley) Labour, December (2014), vol. 28, Issue 4.

Funding, School Specialisation and Test Scores: An Evaluation of the Specialist Schools Policy Using Matching Models (with S. Bradley e J. Taylor) Journal of Human Capital, Spring (2013), vol.7, n.1.

Funding higher education and wage uncertainty: Income contingent loan versus mort- gage loan, Economics of Education Review, December (2012), vol. 31, Issue 6, pp.871- 889.

The joint evaluation of multiple educational policies: the case of specialist schools and Excellence in Cities policies in Britain (with S. Bradley) Education Economics, (2012), vol. 20, no. 3, pp. 322-342.

Did the Single Market Cause Competition in Excise Taxes? Evidence from EU coun- tries (with B. Lockwood) The Economic Journal, (2009), vol. 119 (536).

Editorial (with C. Green), Education Economics, Taylor and Francis Journals, vol.22(4), pages 345-346, 2014

Editorial (with C. Green), Education Economics, Taylor and Francis Journals, vol. 21(3), pages 211-212, 2013.

Editorial (with C. Green), Education Economics, Taylor and Francis Journals, vol. 19(3), pages 227-228, 2011.

The Tax System in the United Kingdom, in Tax Systems and Tax Reforms in Europe, Routledge Studies in the Modern World Economy, United Kingdom, October 2003.

Operation Allied Force: Unintended Consequences of the NATO Bombing on Children (with L. Lebedinski, M. Popovic and S. Vujic) under review at Labour Economics

High school dropout and the intergenerational transmission of crime (with D. Dragone and E. Zucchelli)

The effect of extracurricular activities on students’ dropout. Evidence from vocational education in Italy (with R. Iraci Capuccinello).
Lancaster University, Department of Economics, 2018. (Economics Working Papers Series).

Projects on: the effects of the UK higher education reform on postgraduate participa- tion; the effects of EU structural funds on youth unemployment; the effects of video assistant referee (VAR) on players behaviour and team performance; effects of risky health behaviours on education and health.