Working Papers
Insult Politics in the Age of Social Media (Job Market Paper)
Draft coming soon
Short Abstract: Offensive rhetoric by politicians boosts engagement and electoral support, revealing incentives for incivility that deepen partisan polarization.
Experience, Narratives and Climate Change Beliefs, with Milena Djourelova, Ruben Durante and Eleonora Patacchini
Revise and resubmit Journal of the European Economic Association
Short Abstract: Shared shocks do not generate shared beliefs, as natural disasters heighten climate polarization by activating partisan narratives.
Publications
Media Slant and Public Policy Views, with Milena Djourelova, Ruben Durante and Eleonora PatacchiniAmerican Economic Association Papers and Proceedings. May 2024.
Short Abstract: Exposure to partisan cable news systematically shifts citizens’ policy preferences in the direction of each channel’s slant.
Work in progress
Jury Composition and Sentencing Decisions, with Marie Beigelman
Short Abstract: Exploiting quasi-random jury assignment in French criminal courts, we study how laypeople's social identities affect high-stakes judicial decisions.
Media Bias of Conflict, with Ricardo Baeza-Yates, Marta Reynal-Querol and Federico Scabbia
Short Abstract: Analyzing 10 million news articles with LLMs, we map the anatomy of global conflict coverage, examining how international ties drive bias and shape downstream economic outcomes.
Pre-doctoral publications
The road to recovery: the role of poverty in the exposure, vulnerability and resilience to floods in Accra, with Alvina Erman, Radhika Goyal, Akosua Asare, Shinya Takamatsu, Xiaomeng Chen, Silvia Malgioglio, Alexander Skinner, Nobuo Yoshida, and Stéphane HallegatteEconomics of Disasters and Climate Change (2020), 4: 171-193