Assistant Professor of Economics and Director of the CLEAN Unit at Bocconi University. He holds a joint PhD degree in Law and Economics at the Universities of Bologna, Hamburg and Erasmus Rotterdam.
He is an applied economist with interests in different topics such as crime, labor, development, gender, and political economy. His research has been published in leading scientific journals, including Econometrica, The Review of Economic Studies, and The Review of Economics and Statistic. Several institutions in different countries funded his work, such as the International Growth Centre (IGC), Steg/CEPR, the Unicredit Foundation, the Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation, and the Italian Ministry for Education, University and Research (Miur).
He is also a Research Affiliate at the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR), a Research Fellow at the Institute of Labor Economics (IZA), a non-resident Senior Research Fellow at the United Nations University Wider (UNU-Wider), and UniCredit Foundation Marco Fanno Fellow.
He also served as a consultant for the World Bank, the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), the Brazilian Ministry of Justice and the Brazilian Superintendency for the Development of the Northeast (SUDENE), and he was a visiting scholar at the University of California Santa Barbara.
