Working Papers
Workplace Contact and the Hiring of Refugees: Evidence from Randomized Internships – with Mariajose Silva-Vargas (featured: IPA blog post, VoxDev). [March 2026 Working Paper]
Do Information Frictions and Corruption Perceptions Kill Competition? A Field Experiment on Public Procurement in Uganda – with Emanuele Colonnelli, Edwin Muhumuza and Edoardo Teso (featured: Chicago Booth Review). Also NBER Working Paper 32170. [May 2026 Working Paper]
Contact in the Workplace and Social Cohesion: Experimental Evidence from Uganda – with Mariajose Silva-Vargas. [July 2026 Working Paper]
Work in Progress
Inside the Production Function: the Effect of Financial Contracts on Growing Firms’ Technology Use. Evidence from a Randomized Experiment in Uganda – with Selim Gulesci, Andreas Madestam, and Miri Stryjan. Analysis stage: draft soon available.
Born Again: Experimental Evidence on the Economic and Social Impacts of Religious Renewal – with Andreas Madestam and Jakob Svensson. Preliminary draft.
Innovation Zones, Technological Upgrading, and Firm Productivity – with Cevat Aksoy, Ralph De Haas, and Muhammed Hasan Yilmaz. Analysis stage: draft soon available.
Field work in progress
AI and Early-Stage Entpreneurship (with Claude Raisaro). Pilot stage.
Digital Credit and Financial Behavior (with Vitor Cavalcante and Mattia Fracchia). Pilot stage.
Non-refereed publications
SMEs and Workers During Crises: Evidence from the Covid-19 Pandemic in Uganda, AEA Papers and Proceedings 115: 345–50 – with Selim Gulesci, Andreas Madestam, and Miri Styjan
Articles in the media
We Need More Respectful and Inclusive Experiments in Development Economics: A Proposal (ProMarket.org) – with Mariajose Silva Vargas and Apollo Tumusiime
My interview with local newspaper (Gazzetta del Sud, in Italian)
Policy reports
Improving Access to Labour Markets for Refugees (IGC Policy Report)
Artisanal Jade Mining in Myanmar (IGC Policy Report)
