Research

Publications

• Flexible learning environments for a sustainable teachers’ life-long learning process in the school context. 2023 (with Francesca Sangiuliano Intra, Carla Nasti , Rita Massaro, Armando Junior Perretta, Antonella Brighi and Pietro Biroli). Sustainability, 15(14), 11237.

• Family Life in Lockdown (with Biroli, Pietro, Bosworth, Steven, Della Giusta, Marina, Jaworska, Sylvia, & Vollen, Jeremy (2021). Frontiers in psychology, 12, 687570.

• Risk preferences of children and adolescents in relation to gender, cognitive skills, soft skills, and executive functions (with James Andreoni, John A. List, Anya Samek). Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2019.

• Subjective Belief Distributions and the Characterization of Economic Literacy (with Harrison, Glenn W. and Lau, Morten I. and Swarthout, J. Todd). IZA Discussion Paper No. 9856, 2016.

• The role of gender composition and size of the group in a minimum effort game (with Drouvelis, Michalis). Economics Letters, vol. 137, pp. 168-170, 2015.

• Subjective Belief Distributions and the Characterization of Economic Literacy (with Glenn W. Harrison, Morten Lau; J. Todd Swarthout). Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics, Vol. 59, 12, p. 1-12, 2015.

• Risk and time preferences of entrepreneurs: evidence from a Danish field experiment (with Andersen, Steffen, Di Girolamo, Amalia, Harrison, Glenn W. & Lau Morten I.) Theory and Decision, Volume 77, Issue 3, 2014.

• Essays in Pension Economics, University of Tor Vergata Digital Library, 2011.

Working Papers

Talent is Everywhere, Opportunity is Not: Online Role Model Mentoring and Students’ Aspirations (with Pietro Biroli, Giuseppe Sorrenti and Maddalena Totarelli). 

Do default options affect children’s generosity? (with Michalis Drouvelis and Julen Zarate-Pina)

Dictator Giving and Taking: Evidence from Schoolchildren (with Michalis Drouvelis and Julen Zarate-Pina)

Institutional Transmition of Social Capital (with Michele Giannola and Julen Zarate Pina).

Cheating in group versus cheating alone (with Anya Samek)

Cognition, personality, and in-group favouritism among children (with Pietro Biroli, Michalis Drouvelis, Matteo Pinna). 

Gender Differences in Spatial Abilities Arise During Early Childhood (with Pietro Biroli, Vincenzo Paolo Senese and Ida Sergi). 

Framing the Predicted Impacts of COVID-19 Prophylactic Measures in Terms of Lives Saved Rather Than Deaths Is More Effective for Older People ” with Pietro Biroli, Steven J. Bosworth, Marina Della Giusta, Sylvia Jaworska, Jeremy Vollen IZA Discussion Paper No. 13753, 2020. 

Family Life in Lockdown with Pietro Biroli, Steven J. Bosworth, Marina Della Giusta, Sylvia Jaworska, Jeremy Vollen. HCEO working paper and IZA working paper N.13398, 2020.

Risk Preferences Predict Cognitive Skills and Executive Functions in Children and Adolescents (with James Andreoni, John List, Claire Mackevicius and Anya Samek), NBER WORKING PAPER 2019.

Keep Calm and Carry On: the Pros and Cons of Endurance (with Sophie Clot and Marina Della Giusta) MPRA_paper_91482. 

Have your cake and eat it too: real effort and risk aversion in schoolchildren (with Marina Della Giusta) MPRA_paper_89528. 

Characterizing Financial and Statistical Literacy (with Glenn W. Harrison, Morten Igel Lau, J. Todd Swarthout). Experimental Economics Center Working Paper Series, 2013.

What makes you change your mind? Evaluating the effectiveness of financial education using a field experiment.

Trusting the Pension Funds: why Italian Workers do not invest into the Complementary Pension System.

Work in Progress

Testing Cognitive Versus Socio Emotional Capabilities on primary school children: A Field Experiment (with Demis Basso, Pietro Biroli and Antonella Brighi )

The Effect of Social-Emotional teacher training on Social Preference

Talent is Everywhere, Opportunity is Not: Online Role Model Mentoring and Students’ Aspirations (with Pietro Biroli, Giuseppe Sorrenti and Maddalena Totarelli). 

The Evolution of Cognitive and Socio Emotional Abilities in primary school children: new measurement instruments (with Pietro Biroli, Antonella Brighi, Carla Nasti, Vincenzo Paolo Senese and Ida Sergi).

Development of the Default Effect on individual choices.

 Testing the Pollution Theory of discrimination on an online job market: a field experiment.

The Financial Literacy Effect: ten years later follow up.