Working Papers

The Incapacitation Effect of Incarceration: Evidence From Several Italian Collective Pardons, with Alessandro Barbarino, September 2007

Heterogeneity in Intra-Monthly Consumption Patterns, Self-Control, and Savings at Retirement, with Matt Weinberg, January 2007

Labor Supply Effects of the Recent Social Security Benefit Cuts: Empirical Estimates Using Cohort Discontinuities, November 2006

The Social Security Earnings Test Removal. Money Saved or Money Spent by the Trust Fund?, August 2006

Do Better-Informed Workers Make Better Retirement Choices? A Test Based on the Social Security Statement, April 2006

Does Social Cohesion Affect Mortality?, March 2003

Work-in-Progress

Is Inequality in Injury Rates Rising as Well? Evidence from Italy, with Roberto Leombruni, Mario Pagliero and Tiziano Razzolini

Political Economy of the Social Security Disability Insurance," with Radha K. Iyengar

Measuring Workers' Altruism Using an Ex-Post Evaluation of Their Retirement Decisions," with Jae Song

Published Papers

The Euro Changeover and Its Effects on Price Transparency and Inflation, with Wioletta Dziuda, Journal of Money, Credit, and Banking, forthcoming

Micro Modeling of Retirement Decisions in Germany, with A. Börsch-Supan, R. Schnabel and S. Kohnz in "Social Security and Retirement around the World: Micro-Estimation", NBER, Jonathan Gruber and David A. Wise, editors, Chicago University Press, 2004

Public Pensions in Italy and Germany: A Comparison based on Panel Data, Rivista di Politica Economica, October 2000