SELECTED PAPERS
"Movingto Segregation: Evidence from 8 Italian Cities" (with Tito Boeri, Marta De Philippis, Michele Pellizzari), Working Papers from IGIER, n. 390, Bocconi University, 2011 (Revise and Resubmit The Economic Journal)
"Crime Networks: Who is the Key Player?" (with Lung-Fei Lee, Xiaodong Liu and Yves Zenou), CEPR Discussion paper n. 8772, 2012 (Revise and Resubmit American Economic Review)
"Are Networks Priced? Network Topology and Order Trading Strategies in High Liquidity Markets" (with Ethan Cohen-Cole and Andrei Kirilenko), EIEF Working paper n.11, 2010 (Revise and Resubmit Journal of Financial Economics)
“Ethnic Networks and Employment Outcomes” (2012), Regional Science & Urban Economics, 42, 938-949 (with Y. Zenou)
“Urban Crime and Ethnicity” (2012), Review of Network Economics, 11, 3, art.11 (with Yves Zenou)
"Organized Crime Networks: An Application of NEtwork Analysis Techniques to the American MAfia" (2012), Review of Network Economics, 11,3 art.10 (with Giovanni Mastrobuoni
“Neighborhood Effects and Parental Involvement in the Intergenerational Transmission of Education” (2012), Journal of Regional Science, 51, 5,. 987–1013, (with Y. Zenou) )
“Juvenile Delinquency and Conformism”, Journal of Law, Economics & Organization, 1; 1-31, 2012 (with Y. Zenou)
“Formation and Persistence of Oppositional Identities”, European Economic Review, 55, 1046–1071, 2011 (with A. Bisin, T. Verdier and Y. Zenou)
“Ethnic Identity and Labor-Market Outcomes of Immigrants in Europe”, Economic Policy, 65, 1, 57-92, 2011 (with A. Bisin, T. Verdier and Y. Zenou)
“Urban Sprawl in Europe”, Brookings-Wharton Papers on Urban Affairs, 10, 125-149, 2009 (with Y. Zenou)
“Peer Effects and Social Networks in Education”, Review of Economic Studies, 76, 1239-1267, 2009 (with A. Calvò-Armengol and Y. Zenou)
“On the Sources of the Black-White Test Score Gap in Europe”, Economics Letters , 102, 49-52, 2009 (with Y. Zenou)
“Wages and the City. Evidence from Italy”, Labour Economics, 15, 1040-1061, 2008 (with S. Di Addario)
“Local Analysis of Economic Disparities in Italy: a Spatial Statistics Approach”, Statistical Methods & Applications, 17, 85-112, 2008
“Are Muslim Immigrants Different in Terms of Cultural Integration?”, Journal of the European Economic Association, 6 (2-3), 445-456, 2008 (with A. Bisin, T. Verdier and Y. Zenou)
“The Strength of Weak Ties in Crime”, European Economic Review, 52, 209-236, 2008 (with Y. Zenou)
“Unobserved Heterogeneity or Measurement Errors? Testing for Correlated Effects with Measurement Errors”, Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics,69, 867-880, 2007
“Spatial Dependence in Local Unemployment Rates”, Journal of Economic Geography, 7, 169-191, 2007, (with Y. Zenou)
“Geography and Economic Performance: Exploratory Spatial Data Analysis for Great Britain”, Regional Studies, vol 41.4, 489-508, 2007, (with P. Rice)
“Spatial Determinants of Productivity: Analysis for the Regions of Great Britain”, Regional Science & Urban Economics, 36, 727-752, 2006, (with P. Rice and A.J. Venables)
“Search Intensity, Cost of Living and Local Labour Markets”, Regional Science & Urban Economics, 36, 227-248, 2006, (with Y. Zenou)
“Spatial Mismatch, Transport Mode and Search Decisions in England”, Journal of Urban Economics, 58, 62-90, 2005, (with Y. Zenou)