Articles in refereed Journals
"Home Production, Market Production, and the Gender Wage Gap: Incentives and Expectations" Review of Economic Dynamics, 12, No. 1 (January 2009): 80-107, with Stefania Albanesi.
"Unequal Pay or Unequal Employment? A Cross-country Analysis of Gender Gaps" Journal of Labor Economics 26, no. 4 (October 2008): 621-654, with Barbara Petrongolo.
"Public Enterprises and Labor Market Performance" International Economic Review 48, No. 2 (May 2007): 363-384, with Johannes Horner and Rachel L. Ngai.
"Changes in Women's Aggregate Hours of Work: The Role of Returns to Experience" Review of Economic Dynamics 9, no. 4 (October 2006): 557-587.
"Mothers and Sons: Preference Formation and Female Labor Force Dynamics" Quarterly Journal of Economics 119, no. 4 (November 2004): 1249-1299, with Raquel Fernández and Alessandra Fogli.
"Predictive Ability with Cointegrated Variables" Journal of Econometrics 104, no.2 (September 2001): 315-358, with Valentina Corradi and Norman Swanson.
"Demand Dynamics with Socially Evolving Preferences" Industrial and Corporate Change 8, 2 (June 1999): 353-408, with Roberta Aversi, Giovanni Dosi, Giorgio Fagiolo and Mara Meacci.
Submitted Papers
| Gender Roles and Medical Progress, NBER WP 14873 (April 2009) with Stefania Albanesi. | |
| Formerly "Gender Roles and Technological Progress" available as NBER WP 13179 (June 2007). |
Working Papers and Work in Progress
"Gender Gaps across Countries and Skills: Supply, Demand and the Industry Structure," with Barbara Petrongolo. Preliminary Draft
"Gender and Dynamic Agency: Theory and Evidence on the Compensation of Top Executives" with Stefania Albanesi, April 2008.
"Are Career Women Good for Marriage?" with Zvika Neeman and Andrew F. Newman, April 2008.
"Maternal Health and the Baby Boom" with Stefania Albanesi. SLIDES, July 2009.
"Breaking the Net: Family Structure and Street Children in Zambia" with Mireille Jacobson and Francesco Strobbe.
"Measuring Changes in Returns to Experience: Learning-by-doing and Gender Differentials."
Collective Volume Articles
"Women in the Labour Force: How Well is Europe Doing?" in European Women at Work, T. Boeri, D. Del Boca, and C. Pissarides eds, Oxford University Press (2005), with Chris Pissarides, Pietro Garibaldi, Barbara Petrongolo, and Etienne Wasmer.
" Cognitive Processes, Social Adaptation and Innovation in Consumption Patterns: From Stylized Facts to Demand Theory," in Economic Organization and Economic Knowledge, S. Dow and P. Earl eds (1999), with Roberta Aversi, Giovanni Dosi, Giorgio Fagiolo and Mara Meacci.
Other publications
"Gender and the Labour Market: An International Perspective and the Case of Italy." (May 2009.) Invited essay, Rivista di Politica Economica, V-VI 2008: 3-33.
"Gender Roles, Technology and Papa Leave," VoxEu.org (July 20 2007), with Stefania Albanesi. "
(In Italian) "Stesso salario. Ma senza pari opportunitŕ," LaVoce.Info (February 26 2007), with Barbara Petrongolo