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PAOLO PINOTTI

PAOLO PINOTTI

Courses a.y. 2023/2024

20687 ECONOMIC ANALYSIS OF CRIME

Courses previous a.y.

I have been teaching principles and methodologies for empirical policy evaluation at both graduate and undergraduate level. I also like to give public lectures and teach short courses to policy makers and practitioners outside academia.


Biographical note

I am Dean of the Faculty at Bocconi University, Professor of Economics at the Department of Social and Political Sciences, and Endowed Chair in the Economic Analysis of Crime. I direct the CLEAN Unit for the Economic Analysis of Crime at the Baffi-Carefin Research Center and I am the Coordinator of Fondazione Rodolfo Debenedetti. Before moving to Milan, I obtained my Ph.D. from Universitat Pompeu Fabra in 2009, and I worked at the Research Department of the Bank of Italy between 2007 and 2011.


About

I hold an ERC Consolidator Grant for the project "Clean Evidence on Dirty Deeds" and I am the PI on the project “Dark Side of the Money”, funded by a PRIN Grant from the Italian Ministry of Education, University and Research.


Research interests

I am an applied economist with a strong interest in social phenomena that are relevant from both a scientific and a policy perspective, such as immigration, discrimination, crime, and mass media. I study these phenomena through the lens of economic principles and employing state-of-the-art econometric methods. My research has been published in leading scientific journals, including the American Economic Review, Econometrica, and Review of Economic Studies. In 2016, I was awarded the “AEJ:Applied Economics” Best Paper Award by the American Economic Association.


Working papers

Alesina A., Carlana M., La Ferrara E., Pinotti P.
Revealing stereotypes: Evidence from immigrants in schools
Revise & Resubmit, American Economic Review

Adda J., Pinotti P., Tura G.
There’s More to Marriage than Love: The Effect of Legal Status and Cultural Distance on Intermarriages and Separations
Revise & Resubmit, Journal of Political Economy

Bhalotra S., Britto D., Pinotti P., Sampaio B.
Job Displacement, Unemployment Benefits, and Domestic Violence
Revise & Resubmit, Review of Economic Studies

Cingano F., Palomba F., Pinotti, P., Rettore E.
Making Subsidies Work: Rules vs. Discretion
Revise & Resubmit, Econometrica

Decarolis F., Fisman R., Pinotti P., Vannutelli S.
Rules, Discretion, and Corruption in Procurement: Evidence from Italian Government Contracting
Revise & Resubmit, Journal of Political Economy Microeconomics

Battiston G., Daniele G., Le Moglie M., Pinotti P.
Fueling violence: Drug crackdown, oil thefts, and violence in Mexico
Revise & Resubmit, Economic Journal

Selected Publications

Britto, Diogo; Pinotti, Paolo; Sampaio, Breno
The Effect of Job Loss and Unemployment Insurance on Crime in Brazil
ECONOMETRICA, 2022

Carlana, Michela; La Ferrara, Eliana; Pinotti, Paolo
Goals and gaps: educational careers of immigrant children
ECONOMETRICA, 2022

Durante Ruben; Pinotti Paolo; Tesei Andrea
The political legacy of entertainment TV
THE AMERICAN ECONOMIC REVIEW, 2019

Alesina, Alberto; Piccolo, Salvatore; Pinotti, Paolo
Organized crime, violence, and politics
REVIEW OF ECONOMIC STUDIES, 2019

Pinotti, Paolo
Clicking on heaven's door: the effect of immigrant legalization on crime
THE AMERICAN ECONOMIC REVIEW, 2017

Mastrobuoni, Giovanni; Pinotti, Paolo
Legal status and the criminal activity of immigrants
AMERICAN ECONOMIC JOURNAL. APPLIED ECONOMICS, 2015

Cingano, Federico; Pinotti, Paolo
Trust, firm organization, and the pattern of comparative advantage
JOURNAL OF INTERNATIONAL ECONOMICS, 2016



F. Cingano; Pinotti, Paolo
Politicians at Work. The Private Returns and Social Costs of Political Connections
JOURNAL OF THE EUROPEAN ECONOMIC ASSOCIATION, 2013

Pinotti, Paolo
Trust, regulation and market failures
THE REVIEW OF ECONOMICS AND STATISTICS, 2012

M. Bianchi; P. Buonanno; Pinotti, Paolo
Do immigrants cause crime?
JOURNAL OF THE EUROPEAN ECONOMIC ASSOCIATION, 2012