CV
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Fields of Interest
Health Economics · Education · Law & Economics.
Employment
Oct 2024 –
Research Fellow, MandEval
University of Newcastle & University of Western Australia
Studying the impact of vaccine mandates on uptake using Australian administrative data (AIR-PLIDA).
Sep 2021 – Sep 2024
Research Associate, Economics of Education Knowledge Hub
University of New South Wales, Sydney
Worked on academic and non-academic projects using NSW Education administrative data.
Other Positions & Affiliations
Apr 2024 –
Honorary Associate Lecturer
University of New South Wales
Aug 2023 –
Affiliate, Tax and Transfer Policy Institute
Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University
May 2023 –
Investigator, NHMRC grant APP1127437
National Perinatal Epidemiology and Statistics Unit · Centre for Big Data Research in Health, UNSW
Oct 2020 –
Affiliate, ARC Centre of Excellence for Children and Families over the Life Course
Universities of Sydney, Melbourne, Queensland and Western Australia
Education
2018–2020
Visiting Scholar, University of New South Wales
Awarded Tuition Fee Scholarship.
2016–2020
Ph.D. in Economics, University of Milan
Thesis: Essays in Policy Evaluation. Research topics: Applied Micro, Law & Economics.
Jan 2018
IRVAPP Winter School — Advanced Methods in Impact Evaluation
Topics: discontinuities, causality and machine learning, instrumental variables.
2014–2016
MSc in Economics, University of Nottingham
2011–2014
Undergraduate Degree (Cum Laude) in Philosophy, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Italy
Dissertation: Measurement and Modelling in Economics: An Epistemological Perspective.
Working Papers & Publications
Legal aid eligibility and court outcomes: a design-based double-machine-learning approach.
Forthcoming, Journal of Law & Economics. TTPI WP.
Double-machine-learning approach with administrative data on Legal Aid applicants to estimate the effect of aid refusal on court outcomes.
An open repository of COVID-19 vaccine mandate studies with a worked scoping review of quasi-experimental evidence.
Lead author, with Blyth, C. and the MandEval team. Published in npj Vaccines (2026). Article.
A dataset covering more than 500 papers on COVID-19 mandates, manually curated and with data extracted by an LLM, plus a worked scoping review of the quasi-experimental evidence on uptake and downstream outcomes.
Pull-Forward and Induced Vaccination Under Time-Limited Mandates: Evidence from a Low-Coercion Mandate.
Lead author, with Genie, M., Attwell, K. and the MandEval team. Submitted. arXiv.
Studies a novel COVID-19 vaccine mandate targeting graduating high-school students. A daily panel of linked administrative data (AIR-PLIDA) lets RDD run dynamically, decomposing the effect into pull-forward and induction components. Develops a toy model for external validity.
Career, Family, and IVF: the impact of involuntary childlessness and fertility treatment.
With Maryam Naghsh Nejad. IZA WP.
Dynamic triple DID approach to study the impacts of childlessness and IVF on women’s income and mental health, using Australian administrative data.
Conceiving naturally after IVF: the effect of an ART conception on obstetric outcomes.
With Zhang, X., Rombauts, L. and Chambers, G. arXiv.
Leverages idiosyncratic spontaneous pregnancy after a failed ART cycle to estimate the effect of ART on outcomes such as c-section and birth weight, using Australian administrative data (ANZARD).
Getting Explicit Instruction Right.
With Richard Holden. Submitted. arXiv.
Studies the dramatic effect of a public NSW school introducing the Explicit Instruction pedagogy, using synthetic control on administrative school data.
Grandmaternal health shocks, informal childcare, and maternal outcomes.
With Jan Kabatek. In progress.
Studies the effect of grandmaternal acute health episodes (identified by selected PBS drugs) on the labour outcomes of mothers with children aged 0–4.
Teaching Experience
2021
Lecturer-in-Charge, Environmental Economics
University of New South Wales
2021
Teaching Assistant, Business Decision Making
University of New South Wales
2021
Teaching Assistant, Game Theory & Business Strategy
University of New South Wales
2020
Lecturer-in-Charge, Business and Government
University of New South Wales
2020
Teaching Assistant, Game Theory & Business Strategy
University of New South Wales
2019–2020
Lecturer, Economics Perspectives
University of New South Wales
2017
Teaching Assistant, Advanced Industrial Organisation
University of Milan
Conferences & Invited Seminars
American–European Health Economics Study Group · Australasian Workshop on Econometrics and Health Economics · Invited seminar at CLEAN, Bocconi · STEP UP Conference (‘What Works in Education?’) · Australian Workshop on Public Finance · Labour Econometrics Workshop · Western Economic Association International Conference.
Technical Skills
R (incl. arrow, duckdb, data.table for larger-than-memory data) · Stata · Python · SQL.
Other
- Refereeing experience for Empirical Economics and Health Policy & Technology.
- Mentee at the SOLE Mentoring Program under Amanda Pallais (Harvard) and Basit Zafar (University of Michigan).
References
Available on request.