MASSIMO ANELLI
MASSIMO ANELLI
ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR
ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR
Bocconi University
Bocconi University
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My research follows an interdisciplinary, policy-focused agenda that spans the impact of technology on society, job amenities, labor unions, migration selection and education.
I investigate how technological change is reshaping labor markets, demography, institutions and politics, drawing on concepts and methods from economics, political science and demography.
My work also contributes to key policy debates by studying how migration selection shapes labor markets and demographic dynamics at origin and destination, how education policies influence long-term economic opportunities, and how individual genetic footprints and health shocks impact social and economic inequalities.
A defining feature of my research is the use of original administrative data, often derived from digitized archives, social security records, and government registries. I employ rigorous empirical methods—including Regression Discontinuity Designs, Kink/Notch Designs, Bartik instruments, and network-based identification strategies—to uncover causal relationships that inform evidence-based policy-making across multiple disciplines.
Publications
Publications
Robots, Marriageable Men, Family, and Fertility
(with O. Giuntella and L. Stella)
Journal of Human Resources Mar 2024, 59 (2) 443-469.
Winner of the JHR 2025 Highly Cited Paper Award
ERC funding
In the media: The Washington Post, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung,
Rule Breaking, Honesty and Migration (with T. Colussi and A. Ichino)
The Journal of Law and Economics, Volume 66, Number 2, May 2023 Online Appendix, Accessible working paper, Non-technical summary
Emigration and Entrepreneurial Drain
(with G. Basso, G. Ippedico and G. Peri),
American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 15 (2): 218-52, April 2023
Previously circulated as Youth Drain, Entrepreneurship and Innovation NBER Working paper 26055, July 2019
In the media: Il Sole 24 Ore
Foreign Students in College and the Supply of STEM Graduates
(with K. Shih and K. Williams), Journal of Labor Economics, Volume 41, Number 2, April 2023
Individual vulnerability to industrial robot adoption increases support for the radical right
(with I. Colantone, and P. Stanig)
PNAS November 23, 2021 118 (47)e2111611118.
Funded by "Horizon 2020 - project MICROPROD"
In the media: La Repubblica, PsyPost, Reddit
Fertility Drain or Fertility Gain? Emigration and Fertility during the Great Recession in Italy (with N. Balbo)
Demography, 1 April 2021; 58 (2): 631–654.
In the media: Population Europe
Returns to elite university education: a quasi-experimental analysis
Journal of the European Economic Association, Volume 18, Issue 6, December 2020, Pages 2824–2868.
Awarded with the Distinguished CESifo Affiliate award
The Effects of High School Peers' Gender on College Major, College Performance and Income (with G. Peri)
Economic Journal, Volume 129, Issue 618, February 2019, 553–602
In the media: Featured CESifo working paper
Does Emigration Delay Political Change? Evidence from Italy during the Great Recession (with G. Peri)
Economic Policy, Volume 32, Issue 91, 1 July 2017, Pages 551–596
In the media: Oxford University Press Blog, Corriere della Sera
Gender of Siblings and Choice of College Major (with G. Peri)
CESifo Economic Studies (2015) 61 (1): 53-71.
WORKING PAPERS
WORKING PAPERS
Willingness to Pay for Workplace Amenities (with F. Koenig)
Revise And Resubmit at American Economic Journal: Applied Economics
CESifo Working Paper No. 9469, December 2021
Winner of the SOLE Best Poster Award 2025
Robots Replacing Trade Unions: Novel Data and Evidence from Western Europe (With P. Agnolin, I. Colantone and P. Stanig)
Revise and Resubmit at American Political Science Review
Cariplo Grant - Technology and Society funding
IZA DP No. 17864, April 2025
The Departed: Italian Migration and The American Mafia (With P. Pinotti and Z. Porreca) Submitted
BAFFI Centre Research Paper No. 259, Available at SSRN
ERC funding
What if you see it? Workers’ perceptions of and reactions to LLMs (With I. Colantone, Aina Gallego and P. Stanig) Submitted
Draft available upon request
Tracing the Genetic Footprints of the UK National Health Service
with Martin-Bassols , Pietro Biroli , Elisabetta De Cao and Silvia Mendolia
Draft available upon request
EU Recovery Fund - PRIN-PNRR funding
The Interplay Between Genetic Endowment and Automation: Evaluating Worker Vulnerability to Employment Shocks from Robotics (With Pietro Biroli, Elisabetta De Cao, Silvia Mendolia, Yannick Reichlin)
Draft available upon request
EU Recovery Fund - PRIN-PNRR funding
Railroads and Populism: Technological Change, Market Integration, and Political Backlash in 19th-Century America
(With Massimo Morelli and Marvin Pappalettera)
Draft available upon request
PRIN funding
Education during COVID: Policy Choices, Family Compensation and Learning Losses (with S. Griselda, V. Galasso, H. Van de Werfhorst)
Draft available upon request
RESEARCH IN PROGRESS
The Political Ageing Trap: Supply and Demand of Age-based Policies (With I. Colantone, L. Lupo, P. Stanig)
EU Recovery Fund - PNRR - Partenariato Age-IT funding
Populism and Geographical Sorting
(with I. Colantone, M. Morelli, A. Romarri, and P. Stanig).
The spillovers of child disability on peers' education (With Alice Dominici, Nicoletta Balbo, Sofia Sierra Vasquez)
ERC funding
The long-run labor market effects of university field of study
Draft available upon request. Policy Brief available
In the media: Corriere Della Sera 1, Corriere Della Sera 2, Corriere Della Sera 3, Sole 24 ore 1, Sole 24 ore 2, Radio 24, Vanity Fair
BOOK CHAPTERS
Gender Gap in Labor Market Outcomes: Less Explored Aspects and Dimensions (with G. Peri)
Unexplored Dimensions of Discrimination, ed. Tito Boeri, Eleonora Patacchini, and Giovanni Peri (Oxford University Press, London UK, 2015.) Cite
Gender Gap in Italy: The Role of College Majors (with G. Peri)
Unexplored Dimensions of Discrimination, ed. Tito Boeri, Eleonora Patacchini, and Giovanni Peri (Oxford University Press, London UK, 2015.) Cite
More Unexplored Dimensions of Gender Gap and College Choice: Attitudes, Choice of Partner, and Peer/Teacher Effects in School (with G. Peri)
Unexplored Dimensions of Discrimination, ed. Tito Boeri, Eleonora Patacchini, and Giovanni Peri (Oxford University Press, London UK, 2015.) Cite
OTHER WORK IN ITALIAN
Il Valore Economico della Scelta Universitaria (with G. Peri)
Published by Fondazione Rodolfo DeBenedetti, November 2013
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