Biography

He is an Assistant Professor of Economics (RTDB) at the Catholic University of Milan and a Visiting Fellow at CEP (LSE).
He was a Research Economist at the Centre for Economic Performance (LSE) from October 2015 to September 2022.
He completed his ESRC-funded PhD in Economics at “the University of Sussex (2016) and, during his PhD, he consulted for the World Bank on the” unintended impact of restrictive migration policies on labor markets and “school enrollment in Indonesia.”
He has been a member of the Youth Endowment Fund’s Experts Panel since 2019 and a CESifo affiliate since 2021.
His current research focuses on the determinants of crime and the crime-reducing effects of schooling, policing, and early childhood interventions, as well as the use of disciplinary sanctions in schools and their impact on student performance and criminal activity. As part of this research program, he leads the LSE’s Education Policy and Youth Crime in England (EPYCE) project.