Alle radici della paura

Un recente lavoro pubblicato sul Journal of Public Economics dimostra che il flusso di immigrati in Italia tra il 2001 ed il 2008 ha determinato un aumento di voti per la coalizione del centro-destra nelle tre competizioni elettorali nazionali. Gli autori comparano il flusso dei migranti regolari registrati in 8mila municipalità italiane tra il 2001 ed il 2008 con la percentuale di voti ricevuti dall’alleanza di centro-destra. Si stima che un aumento di un punto nella percentuale di immigrati presenti sul territorio è associato ad un aumento di 0,86 punti nella percentuale di voti ottenuti dal centro-destra nelle tre tornate elettorali nazionali.

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Author: Piero

I am Associate Professor of Economics at the Dept. of Economics & Statistics “Cognetti de Martiis” of the Univ. of Turin, and research affiliate at Collegio Carlo Alberto. I studied Political Science at Bachelor’s and Master’s level at the Univ. Federico II in Naples, the lovely city where I grew up and where I’ve learnt how to survive most other places of the world. Then I received the MSc in Development Economics and the PhD in Economic Theory & Institutions at the Univ. of Rome “Tor Vergata”. Although I was trained as an economist my research topics are at the intersection between different social sciences. They include social preferences (e.g. trust, altruism, cooperation), subjective well-being, happiness and development (e.g. microfinance, civil war and natural disasters). I use experimental- and applied-economics methods such as fieldworks, lab-experiments, policy evaluation tools and analysis of survey data. I founded and currently lead CLOSER (Center for LabOratory Simulations and Experimental Research) with the aim of bringing together psychologists, sociologists and economists for a broader understanding of human behavior. I love riding my mountain and road bikes, swimming, traveling, listening to music and playing it with my indie-rock band.