Persuasion and Gender: Experimental Evidence from Two Political Campaigns
This paper investigates the differential response of male and female voters to competitive persuasion in political campaigns.
Joint with Vincenzo Galasso
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How Do Voters Respond to Information? Evidence from a Randomized Campaign
In collaboration with the reelection campaign of an Italian incumbent mayor, we administred messages about the candidate’s valence or ideology.
Joint with Chad Kendall and Francesco Trebbi
Meet the Press: How Voters and Politicians Respond to Newspaper Entry and Exit
This paper uses an original dataset covering the presence of local news in medium-large Italian cities in the period 1993–2010.
Joint with Francesco Drago and Francesco Sobbrio
Do Better Paid Politicians Perform Better? Disentangling Incentives from Selection
The wage paid to politicians affects both the choice of citizens to run for an elective office and the performance of those who are appointed.
Joint with Stefano Gagliarducci
Measures of social capital for Italian provinces and municipalities
The following data set collects measures of social capital commonly used in the economics and political science literature. The measures refer to Italy and vary either at the province or at the municipality level.
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Dataset on the Italian Members of Parliament from 1987 to 2008
We collected information on the demographic characteristics, political and work experience, legislative accomplishments of the universe of Italian members of Parliament from 1987 to 2008.
Joint with Stefano Gagliarducci and Paolo Naticchioni
Commento all’accordo trilatero spagnolo del 9 maggio 2006 per lo sviluppo e l’occupazione
Come importare il meglio dell’accordo concluso in Spagna tra governo e parti sociali sulla lotta alla precarietà? Si può fare attraverso una strategia di riforma in due mosse, che prima sfoltisca la selva di contratti atipici e individui due sole tipologie di lavoro temporaneo.
Tommaso Nannicini
Electoral Rules and Politicians’ Behavior: A Micro Test
Theory predicts that the majoritarian electoral system should produce more targeted redistribution and lower politicians’ rents than proportional representation.
Joint with Stefano Gagliarducci and Paolo Naticchioni
The Importance of Betting Early
We evaluate the impact of timing on decision outcomes when both the timing and the relevant decision are chosen under uncertainty. Sports betting provides the testing ground, as we exploit an original dataset containing more than one million online bets on games of the Italian Major Soccer League.
Joint with Alessandro Innocenti and Roberto Ricciuti