All Outputs (12)

Cognitive reserve and individual differences in brain tumour patients (2023)
Journal Article
Tomasino, B., De Fraja, G., Guarracino, I., D’Agostini, S., Ius, T., Skrap, M., & Rumiati, R. I. (2023). Cognitive reserve and individual differences in brain tumour patients. Brain Communications, 5(4), Article fcad198. https://doi.org/10.1093/braincomms/fcad198

The aim of the paper is to determine the effects of the cognitive reserve on brain tumour patients' cognitive functions and, specifically, if cognitive reserve helps patients cope with the negative effects of brain tumours on their cognitive function... Read More about Cognitive reserve and individual differences in brain tumour patients.

A Note on University Admission Tests: Simple Theory and Empirical Analysis (2022)
Journal Article
De Fraja, G., Eleftheriou, K., & Ioakimidis, M. (2022). A Note on University Admission Tests: Simple Theory and Empirical Analysis. The B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy, 22(3), 623-632. https://doi.org/10.1515/bejeap-2021-0173

University admission mechanisms are often quite complex. This paper examines one effect of their design on the students' incentives to exert effort in preparation for the test. We adapt a multi-unit all-pay model of auction to draw the conclusion tha... Read More about A Note on University Admission Tests: Simple Theory and Empirical Analysis.

The Wounds That Do Not Heal: The Lifetime Scar of Youth Unemployment (2021)
Journal Article
De Fraja, G., Lemos, S., & Rockey, J. (2021). The Wounds That Do Not Heal: The Lifetime Scar of Youth Unemployment. Economica, 88(352), 896-941. https://doi.org/10.1111/ecca.12384

This paper uses UK administrative data to study the long-term effects of unemployment on earnings. It is the first paper to pinpoint accurately the relative importance of the timing of employment shocks within workers' lives. We find a strong effect... Read More about The Wounds That Do Not Heal: The Lifetime Scar of Youth Unemployment.

Have you Read This? An Empirical Comparison of the British REF Peer Review and the Italian VQR Bibliometric Algorithm (2021)
Journal Article
Checchi, D., Ciolfi, A., De Fraja, G., Mazzotta, I., & Verzillo, S. (2021). Have you Read This? An Empirical Comparison of the British REF Peer Review and the Italian VQR Bibliometric Algorithm. Economica, 88(352), 1107-1129. https://doi.org/10.1111/ecca.12373

This paper determines the assessment of the publications submitted to the UK research evaluation carried out in 2014, the REF, which would have resulted if they had been assessed with the bibliometric algorithm used by the Italian evaluation agency,... Read More about Have you Read This? An Empirical Comparison of the British REF Peer Review and the Italian VQR Bibliometric Algorithm.

Effects of Passive Smoking on Prenatal and Infant Development: Lessons from the Past (2021)
Journal Article
Ciccarelli, C., Fraja, G. D., & Vuri, D. (2021). Effects of Passive Smoking on Prenatal and Infant Development: Lessons from the Past. Economics and Human Biology, 42, Article 101002. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ehb.2021.101002

This paper studies the effect of passive smoking on child development. We use data from a time when the adverse effects of smoking on health were not known and when tobacco was not an inferior good. This allows us to disentangle the effect on foetuse... Read More about Effects of Passive Smoking on Prenatal and Infant Development: Lessons from the Past.

Zoomshock: The geography and local labour market consequences of working from home (2021)
Journal Article
De Fraja, G., Matheson, J., & Rockey, J. (2021). Zoomshock: The geography and local labour market consequences of working from home. Covid Economics, 1-41

The Covid-19 health crisis has led to a substantial increase in work done from home, which shifts economic activity across geographic space. We refer to this shift as a 'Zoomshock'. The Zoomshock has implications for locally consumed services; the cl... Read More about Zoomshock: The geography and local labour market consequences of working from home.

Incentives and Careers in Academia: Theory and Empirical Analysis (2020)
Journal Article
Checchi, D., De Fraja, G., & Verzillo, S. (2020). Incentives and Careers in Academia: Theory and Empirical Analysis. Review of Economics and Statistics, 103(4), 1-46. https://doi.org/10.1162/rest_a_00916

We study career concerns in Italian academia. We mould our empirical analysis on the standard model of contests, formalised in the multi-unit all-pay auction. The number of posts, the number of applicants, and the relative importance of the criteria... Read More about Incentives and Careers in Academia: Theory and Empirical Analysis.

How Hard Is It to Maximize Profit? Evidence from a 19th century Italian State Monopoly (2020)
Journal Article
Ciccarelli, C., De Fraja, G., & Tiezzi, S. (2021). How Hard Is It to Maximize Profit? Evidence from a 19th century Italian State Monopoly. Oxford Economic Papers, 73(2), 879–902. https://doi.org/10.1093/oep/gpz076

In this paper we study the ability of the 19th century Italian government to choose profit maximizing prices for a multiproduct monopolist. We use very detailed historical data on the tobacco consumption in 62 Italian provinces from 1871 to 1888 to e... Read More about How Hard Is It to Maximize Profit? Evidence from a 19th century Italian State Monopoly.

Academic Salaries and Public Evaluation of University Research: Evidence from the UK Research Excellence Framework (2019)
Journal Article
De Fraja, G., Facchini, G., & Gathergood, J. (2019). Academic Salaries and Public Evaluation of University Research: Evidence from the UK Research Excellence Framework. Economic Policy, 34(99), 523-583. https://doi.org/10.1093/epolic/eiz009

We study the effects of public evaluation of university research on the pay structures of academic departments. A simple equilibrium model of university pay determination shows how the pay-performance relationship can be explained by the incentives i... Read More about Academic Salaries and Public Evaluation of University Research: Evidence from the UK Research Excellence Framework.

Optimal public funding for research: a theoretical analysis (2016)
Journal Article
De Fraja, G. (2016). Optimal public funding for research: a theoretical analysis. RAND Journal of Economics, 47(3), 498-528. https://doi.org/10.1111/1756-2171.12135

This article studies how a government should distribute funds among research institutions and how it should allocate them to basic and applied research. Institutions differ in reputation and efficiency, and have an information advantage. The governme... Read More about Optimal public funding for research: a theoretical analysis.

The desegregating effect of school tracking (2014)
Journal Article
Fraja, G. D., & Martínez-Mora, F. (2014). The desegregating effect of school tracking. Journal of Urban Economics, 80, 164-177. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jue.2014.01.001

This paper makes the following point: “detracking” schools, that is preventing them from allocating students to classes according to their ability, may lead to an increase in income residential segregation. It does so in a simple model where househol... Read More about The desegregating effect of school tracking.

The demand for tobacco in post-unification Italy (2013)
Journal Article
Ciccarelli, C., & De Fraja, G. (2014). The demand for tobacco in post-unification Italy. Cliometrica, 8(2), 145-171. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11698-013-0097-z

This paper studies the demand for tobacco products in post-unification Italy. We construct a very detailed panel data set of yearly consumption in the 69 Italian provinces from 1871 to 1913 and use it to estimate the demand for tobacco products. We f... Read More about The demand for tobacco in post-unification Italy.