BIAGIO SPECIALE

Paris School of Economics
Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne
Room 48, 6th floor 
48 Boulevard Jourdan
75014 Paris; France
Email:               biagio.speciale@univ-paris1.fr














CV 

Research

Teaching

Research








WORKING PAPERS

  • “Tell me what you eat, I will tell you who you are”. Migrants' integration and big data on food consumption, 2019. With Simone Bertoli (Université Clermont Auvergne), Fosca Giannotti (ISTI-CNR), Riccardo Guidotti (ISTI-CNR), Dino Pedreschi (Università di Pisa) and Hillel Rapoport (PSE).


PUBLICATIONS IN REFEREED JOURNALS

  • The effect of language training on immigrants' economic integration. Empirical evidence from France, 2019. With Alexia Lochmann (PSE) and Hillel Rapoport (PSE). European Economic Review 113,  265-296.
  • How do regulated and unregulated labor markets respond to shocks? Evidence from immigrants during the Great Recession, 2018. With Sergei Guriev (Sciences Po) and Michele Tuccio (Université Paris-Dauphine). Forthcoming Journal of Law, Economics and Organization.
  • Arab Spring protests and women's labor market outcomes: evidence from the Egyptian revolution, 2018. With Nelly El-Mallakh and Mathilde Maurel (Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne). Journal of Comparative Economics 46 (2), 656-682.
  • Illegal migration and consumption behavior of immigrant households, 2017. With Christian Dustmann (University College London) and Francesco Fasani (Queen Mary - University of London). Journal of the European Economic Association 15 (3), 654–691.
  • Social constraints and women's education: Evidence from Afghanistan under radical religious rule, 2016. With Abdul Noury (New York University - Abu Dhabi). Journal of Comparative Economics 44 (4), 821-841.
  • Does immigration affect public education expenditures? Quasi-experimental evidence, 2012. Journal of Public Economics 96 (9-10), 773-783.
  • Are educational policies elitist?, 2012. Oxford Economic Papers 64 (3), 439-463.
  • Immigrants' legal status, permanence in the destination country and the distribution of consumption expenditure, 2011. Applied Economics Letters 18(4), 1341-1347. With Matteo Barigozzi (London School of Economics and Political Science).
  • Financial leverage and managerial compensation: evidence from the UK, 2011. Research in Economics 65 (1), pp. 36-46. With Gianluca Papa (ECARES).

OTHER WORKS (BOOK CHAPTERS, POLICY PAPERS, PERMANENT WORKING PAPERS, ETC.)

  • Immigration policies in the EU: challenges and priorities, 2010. Reflets et perspectives de la vie économique XLIX (2-3).
  • Le rimesse degli immigrati residenti in Italia (Remittances of immigrants living in Italy), 2009. With Francesco Fasani (IAE). In Fondazione ISMU ed.: XIV Rapporto sulle migrazioni 2008. Franco Angeli (in Italian).
  • Migration and educational policies, 2008. Reflets et perspectives de la vie économique XLVII (3).
  • Consumption, saving and remittance behaviour of undocumented migrants in Italy, 2008. With Gian Carlo Blangiardo (Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca) and Francesco Fasani (IAE). In L. Di Comite, F. Galizia and O. Garavello eds.: Sviluppo demografico ed economico nel Mediterraneo, Cacucci Editore.
  • How much does infrastructure matter to growth in Sub-Saharan Africa?, 2005. With Antonio Estache (ECARES) and David Veredas (ECARES). Prepared for the World Bank.
  • Remittances and public spending on education, 2011.






Teaching

My current teaching activities at Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne: - The Economics of Migration, - Microéconomie,  - Introduction générale à l'économie (TD) and  - Mondialisation et intégration regionale.