Giuseppe Migali Curriculum Vitae – February 2022
General Information
Giuseppe Migali
Department Giurisprudenza, Economia, Sociologia, Magna Graecia University, Catanzaro, Italy
email: g.migali@unicz.it
Professional Experience
Full Professor of Economics, from 1st October 2021 – Department of Law, Economics and Sociology
Magna Graecia University, Catanzaro, Italy
Visiting Professor in Economics since October 2011 – Department of Economics Lancaster University, UK
Previous positions
Department of Law, Economics and Sociology Universita’ Magna Graecia, Catanzaro, Italy
Associate Professor of Public Economics, 2015-2021
Assistant Professor of Public Economics, 2008-2015
Department of Economics Lancaster University, UK
ESRC Postdoctoral Fellow Award Holder, 2009
Senior Research Associate, October 2007
Department of Economics University of Warwick, Coventry (UK) – Research and Teaching Assistant, from 2003/04 to 2005/06
Dipartimento di Economia, Universita’ Bocconi e Dipartimento Economia Pubblica, Universita’ di Pavia – Research and Teaching Assistant, 2000/01 – 2001/02.
Education
Ph.D. in Economics, 2008 University of Warwick, Coventry, UK
Dottorato di Ricerca in Public Finance, 2005 Universita’ degli Studi di Pavia, Italy
Master of Science in Economics, September 2003 University College London, London, UK
Honors Degree in Economics, February 2000 Universita’ Commerciale Luigi Bocconi, Milan, Italy
Professional Qualification
Abilitazione nazionale ai sensi dell’art.16 Legge n.2410/2010 – Professore di prima fascia nel settore concorsuale 13/A3, settore scientifico disciplinare SECS/P03, April 2019
Abilitazione nazionale ai sensi dell’art.16 Legge n.2410/2010 – Professore di prima fascia nel settore concorsuale 13/A1, settore scientifico disciplinare SECS/P01, July 2018
Higher Education Academy Fellowship, December 2015 ATLAS Professional Experience Pathways: Fellowship.
Visiting Positions
Department of Economics and Institute of Policy Research Northwestern University, US
Visiting Faculty, April – May 2014
Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania, US – Visiting Faculty, April – May 2012
Visiting Faculty, September 2010 – March 2011
Department of Economics, European University Institute, Firenze – Visiting PhD Student, September 2006 – March 2007
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).
Editorials
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.
Chapters in books
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.
Papers under R&R
The effect of test anxiety on academic performance: evidence from an RCT using biomarkers (with E. Macri’) under review at the Oxford Economics Papers.
Papers under review
Operation Allied Force: Unintended Consequences of the NATO Bombing on Children (with L. Lebedinski, M. Popovic and S. Vujic) under review at Labour Economics
Papers under submission
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.
Works in progress
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.
Grants and Conference organization
11th International Workshop on Applied Economics of Education, Catanzaro 21 and 22 June, 2021
10th International Workshop on Applied Economics of Education, Catanzaro 23 and 25 June, 2019 – Grant from Magna Graecia University – EUR 10,000.
9th International Workshop on Applied Economics of Education, Catanzaro 17 and 19 June, 2018 – Grant from Magna Graecia University – EUR 10,000.
8th International Workshop on Applied Economics of Education, Catanzaro 18 and 20 June, 2017 – Grant from Magna Graecia University – EUR 10,000.
Lancaster University Employment & Recruitment Service, January 2016 Grant for hiring temporary member of staff : GBP 4,000.
Project: Contribution of top-level managers to organisational performance.
(with Prof. R. Simmons)
7th International Workshop on Applied Economics of Education, Catanzaro 19 and 21 June, 2016 – Grant from Magna Graecia University – EUR 10,000.
Radical Futures in Social Science ESRC Grant
“Assessing the consistency of dropping out of health treatments and education: evi- dence on young pupils” joint project with Dr Eugenio Zucchelli, Health Division Lan- caster University. February 2014 – March 2015. – Award: GBP 10,000
6th International Workshop on Applied Economics of Education, Catanzaro 14 and 16 June, 2015 – Grant from Magna Graecia University – EUR 15,000.
LUMS Pump-priming, Lancaster University
“Effects of the UK Higher Education Reform on Students Dropout”. May 2012 – May 2013.
Award: GBP 5,000.
5th International Workshop on Applied Economics of Education, Catanzaro 22 and 24 June, 2014 – Grant from Magna Graecia University – EUR 20,000.
4th International Workshop on Applied Economics of Education, Catanzaro 23 and 25 June, 2013 – Grant from Magna Graecia University
EUR 20,000.
Calabria Region – Department of Education
Principal Investigator for the project “School Resources and Dropout behaviour in post-compulsory education in Italy” April 2011 – April 2013
Grant: EUR 101,000
3rd International Workshop on Applied Economics of Education, Catanzaro 17 and 19 June, 2012 – Grant from Magna Graecia University
EUR 20,000.
2nd International Workshop on Applied Economics of Education, Catanzaro 20 and 21 June, 2011 – Grant from Magna Graecia University
EUR 20,000.
International Workshop on Applied Economics of Education, Catanzaro 14 and 15 June, 2010 – Grant from Magna Graecia University
EUR 20,000.
Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC), UK October 2009 – September 2011.
Principal Investigator for the project “A theoretical and Econometric Evaluation of Secondary and Higher Education in the UK, Funding, Financing and Educational Out- comes”. Funder project reference PTA-026-7-2256 – Award: GBP 172,995.
Roles at Magna Graecia University
President of Postgraduate degree in Public Administration and Society – from 2021
Founder and Organizer (with Colin Green, NTNU) of the International Workshop on Applied Economics of Education (IWAEE), 2010-present.
Erasmus students Coordinator and Erasmus staff mobility program Coordinator, from 2016 to current.
Member of the committee for the evaluation of the performance of post-doc students in economics, from 2010 to current.
Member of the Department Executive Committee, 2017-20.
Member of the Committee for the planning and strategic development of the Depart- ment at Magna Graecia University, 2017.
Member of the committee for ECTS credit recognition recognition at Magna Graecia University, 2010-2016.
Member of the committee for the promotion and the recognition of the performance pay award of the university administrative staff, January-March 2016.
From 2010, I have been included in several panels for the hiring of new postdoc students and temporary lecturers.
International Reviewer for the National Science Foundation’s Economic Program, US. International Reviewer for the NRO Programme Council for Fundamental Education Research, Netherlands.
Member of the scientific committee of the PhD programme in Law and Economics, Magna Graecia University, from 2019.
Co-editor Education Economics Conference Issue for IWAEE, 2010-2014.
Member of the scientific committee of the PhD programme in Economics, partnership between the Universities of Messina, Palermo, Catania and Catanzaro, 2013-2016. Member of the Health Economics at Lancaster (HEAL) research group, from 2014. External affiliate of the Health Econometrics and Data Group (HEDG), University of York.
Presentations
2020
The Royal Economic Society Annual Conference, Queen’s University Belfast 6-8 April 2020 (cancelled for COVID-19 outbreak)
2018
Italian Society of Public Economics (SIEP), XXX Conference, University of Padova, 20-21 September.
Italian Health Economics Association (AIES), XXIII Conference, University of Napoli, 27-28 September.
2016
Italian Society of Public Economics (SIEP), XXVIII Conference, University of Lecce, 22-23 September.
Economics Departmental seminar, University of Ferrara, 27 April.
2015
Italian Society of Public Economics (SIEP), XXVII Conference, University of Ferrara, 24-25 September.
The European Economic Association Annual Conference, Mannheim University, Ger- many, 24 -27 August.
Economics Departmental seminar, University of Ferrara, 20 May.
The Royal Economic Society Annual Conference, University of Manchester, UK, 30 March -1 April.
2014
8th International Conference on Computational and Financial Econometrics (CFE 2014), Pisa, Italy, 6-8 December 2014.
Fifth International Workshop on Applied Economics of Education, Catanzaro, 22-24 June.
Society of Labour Economists (SOLE) annual conference, Arlington, Washington DC Area (US), 2-3 May.
Economics Departmental seminar, University of Ferrara, 4 June. Economics Departmental seminar, Lancaster University, 19 February
2013 Economics Departmental seminar, University of Ferrara, 8 May.
2012 Italian Society of Public Economics (SIEP), XXIV Conference, Pavia, 24-25 September.
2011
Second International Workshop on Applied Economics of Education, Catanzaro, 20-21 June.
Economics Departmental seminar, University of Bath, 20 February. Economics Departmental seminar, University of Sheffield, 24 January.
2010
Society of Labor Economists (SOLE), Third World Conference EALE – SOLE, London, June 18-21.
International Workshop on Applied Economics of Education, Catanzaro, Italy, June 15-16.
The Royal Economic Society Annual Conference, Surrey, UK, March 23-26.
2009
Economics Seminar, Institute of Education, London November 18.
The European Association of Labour Economists Annual Conference, Tallin, Septem- ber 10-12.
The European Economic Association Annual Conference, Barcelona Graduate School of Economics, Barcelona, August 23-27.
Lancaster Economics Seminar, Lancaster University Management School, Department of Economics, June 8.
Scottish Economic Society Annual Conference, Perth, Scotland, April 27-29.
2008
Lancaster Economics Seminar, Lancaster University Management School, Department of Economics, November 12.
The European Economic Association Annual Conference, Bocconi University, Milan, August 27-31.
The Royal Economic Society Annual Conference 2008, University of Warwick, March.
2007
Summer School on Fiscal Federalism: Tax Competition and Urban Public Finance Institut d’Economia de Barcelona, June 25-29.
Public Economics Seminar, University of Warwick, June.
Economics Seminar, Department of Economics, University of Wien, May 4.
Royal Economic Society – Job Market Conference, 28 January 2007, LSE London.
2006-05 25th Arne Ryde Symposium 2006, The Economics of Higher Education and the Edu- cation of Economists, November 2-3, Lund, Sweden
Public Economics Seminar, University of Warwick, June 2006 and May 2005.
The Royal Economic Society Annual Conference 2006, University of Nottingham, April 2006.
8th IZA European Summer School in Labor Economics, 18-24 April 2005, Ammersee Lake, Munich, Germany.
Referee
International Economic Review, Economic Journal, Journal of Public Economics, Jour- nal of Royal Statistics Society, Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, Journal of Regional Science, Labour Economics, Economics of Education Review, Journal of Sport Economics, International Journal of Manpower, Education Economics, Empiri- cal Economics, Economics Bulletin, China Economic Review, International Journal of Sport Finance, European Journal of Comparative Economics.
Award
Gold medal for “Best Graduates” at Bocconi University.
