The Economic and Environmental Effects of Seasonality of Tourism: a look at Solid Waste
Tourism is traditionally associated with great opportunities of growth with relatively small investments in physical and human capital, but also with high levels of negative externalizes, particularly referred to the environment. Sometimes those externalizes are easy to be quantified even though are difficult to be internalized because of poor management schemes.A Vector Autoregressive Model for Forecasting Electricity Consumption in France
This paper provides a VARX approach for the estimation of electricity demand in France. Our methodology takes into account the complex relationship between weather variables and electricity demand, as well as the correlation between electricity and macroeconomic variables.Migrant Networks and the Spread of the Coronavirus in Italy
The focus of this ongoing project si to look at migrant networks and the possible role that might have in the spreading of the virus covid-19 in Italy. I propose a spatial econometric model with a distance matrix that proxies the ``social" proximity of Italian provinces, to look at the ``spillover effects" that the government policies have caused in terms spreading of the virus. The purpose of the paper is two-fold: on the one hand it aims at showing the possible endogeneity of the policy instruments used highlighting the counter-productive effects obtained by neglecting the response of individuals; on the other hand it aims at measuring those effects by considering a novel and so far unused measure of network that is not observed producing relevant effects in ``normal" times, but it does in special circumstances. Networks are used widely to implement simulations of virus spreading, but they are mostly approximated by data on human movements in ``normal” times, such as number of flights by route, number of commuters taking the trains etc…, and are most often assumed to be exogenous to policy implementation. In this paper I show that other types of networks that generate less physical interactions in normal times, such as migrant networks, in special circumstances can find themselves ``activated" and produce important effects.Price Elasticity of Electricity Demand in France
Using an unique dataset containing millions of bi-annual meter readings of electricity consumption within France from 2007 and 2015, we estimate the price elasticity of electricity expenditure of private households.
The General Equilibrium Long Term Effects of the Canadian Education Policies
This paper is the result of a study done for the Human Resources and Skill Development of Canada (HRSDC), and aim at providing answers to several questions of importance for policy makers, on the relationship between the Student Loan Program in Canada and its effects on labor productivity.
The effects of public sector employment on the economy
Public sector jobs are created because governments opt to provide goods and services produced directly by public employees. Governments, however, may also choose to regulate the size of the public sector in order to stabilize targeted national employment levels.
Public Wages, Public Employment, and Business Cycle Volatility: Evidence From U.S. Metro Areas
Working Paper, 2016 (with Claire A. Boeing-Reicher, R&R: Review of Economic Dynamics)
Based on data from a cross section of U.S. metro areas, we show that public employment correlates negatively with business cycle volatility, hinting at a stabilizing effect of public employment, while public wages correlate weakly and positively with business cycle volatility, hinting at a destabilizing effect of public wages.
Female Migration, Human Capital and Fertility
Work in Progress
The objective of this paper is to provide a theoretical explanation to some puzzling facts. While among American residents women, Mexicans tend to have higher fertility rates - a total fertility rate (TFR) of about 2.7 as opposed to a TFR of US born women of 2.0 - the fertility rate of Mexicans resident in Mexico is closer to the fertility rate in the US (natives) - 2.1.
Public Employment Policies and Regional Unemployment Differences
Regional Science and Urban Economics, Vol. 63, March 2017, Pages 1–12
This paper contributes to the existing literature on public employment showing that the wage setting policy of the public sector can be an important determinant of private employment and unemployment.
Empirical characteristics of legal and illegal immigrants in the USA
Journal of Population Economics, 27(4), 923-960, 2014. (with M. Plesca),
We combine the New Immigrant Survey (NIS), which contains information on US legal immigrants, with the American Community Survey (ACS), which contains information on legal and illegal immigrants to the USA.
Intergenerational Transmission of Abilities and Self-Selection of Mexican Immigrants
International Economic Review, Vol. 52, No. 2, May 2011
This article presents an intergenerational self-selection model of migration and education that is capable of explaining the evolution of earnings and education across three generations of immigrants.
The Impact of Aggregate and Sectoral Fluctuations on Training Decisions
The B.E. Journal of Macroeconomics (Advances), Vol. 10, Issue 1, 2010 Art. 28 - Arrow Prize for junior economists 2010. (with Burc Kayahan and Miana Plesca)
The literature on training has pointed out that macroeconomic fluctuations can have a positive or a negative effect on training decisions.
Heterogeneous Human Capital and Migration: Who Migrates from Mexico to the US?
Annales de Economie et de Statistique N. 97/98, January/June 2010
This paper first provides evidence of a U-shaped relationship between education and migration among Mexicans.
Post-secondary education in Canada: can ability bias explain the earnings gap between college and university graduates?
Canadian Journal of Economics, Vol. 42, No. 3 August 2009. (with Miana Plesca)
Using the Canadian General Social Survey we compute returns to postsecondary education relative to high school.