Expertise
- Applied micro-econometrics and causality
- Economics of education
- Measurement of welfare and social inequalities
- Design and evaluation of public interventions
- Labor and Public Economics
- Migration and Urban Economics
Biography
Biography:
Dr. Erich Battistin is a professor in the Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics at the University of Maryland. He is also a Faculty Associate at the Maryland Population Research Center (MPRC), Senior Research Fellow at IRVAPP, Research Fellow at the Institute for the Study of Labour (IZA), and Research Fellow at the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR). He previously worked at Queen Mary University of London, the University of Padova, the Institute for Fiscal Studies and the Centre for the Evaluation of Development Policies in London.
Professor Battistin's research interests cover a variety of fields of applied economics, ranging from applied work in labor economics to more methodological aspects in policy evaluation and measurement. On these topics he has published in various journals, including the American Economic Review, the Journal of Political Economy and the Journal of Econometrics. He was the principal investigator of projects funded by the Economic and Social Research Council, the Italian Ministry of Education, Universities and Research and the Italian Ministry of Welfare and participated as co-investigator in several other projects funded by international organisations in Europe and in the United States. He was consultant with the World Bank for the implementation of agriculture development programs in Nigeria, and he is now involved in regional research projects on welfare measurement for the Middle East and North Africa.
Education:
Ph.D. in Statistics, University of Padua
Laurea in Statistics summa cum laude, University of Padua
Research
Work in Progress:
Fast-Tracked Jobs Help Asylum Seekers Integrate Faster (with G. Abbiati, P. Monti and P. Pinotti).
The Long-Term Effects of Teacher Wage Differentials (with M. Vega-Monge).
Child Penalties: Demand-Side vs. Supply-Side Mechanisms (with M. De Nadai and M. Padula).
Reducing Inequality Through Efficient Policing (with R. Hahn and B. Sun).
Racial Preferences in Low-Stakes Decisions (with M. De Nadai and L. Neri).
Fiscal Incentives, Return Migration and the Housing Market (with M. Ovidi and D. Vuri).
Publications
Publications:
Quantiles of the Gain Distribution of an Early Child Intervention (with C. Lamarche and E. Rettore), Journal of Applied Econometrics, 2024, Volume 39, Issue 6, pp. 1045-1064.
School Performance, Score Inflation and Neighborhood Development (with L. Neri), Journal of Labor Economics, 2024, Volume 42, Number 3, pp. 753-792.
The Insights and Illusions of Consumption Measurements (with M. De Nadai and N. Krishnan), Journal of Development Economics, 2023, Volume 161, 102991.
More Choice for Men? Marriage Patterns after World War II in Italy (with S. Becker and L. Nunziata), Journal of Demographic Economics, 2022, Volume 88, Issue 3, pp. 447-472.
Rising Stars: Expert Reviews and Reputational Yardsticks in the Research Excellence Framework (with M. Ovidi), Economica, 2022, Volume 89, pp. 830-848.
Threat of Grade Retention, Remedial Education and Student Achievement: Evidence from Upper Secondary Schools in Italy (with A. Schizzerotto), Empirical Economics, 2019, Volume 56, Issue 2, pp. 651-678.
Counting Rotten Apples: Student Achievement and Score Manipulation in Italian Elementary Schools (with M. De Nadai and D. Vuri), Journal of Econometrics, 2017, Volume 200, Issue 2, pp. 344-362.
In a Small Moment: Class Size and Moral Hazard in the Mezzogiorno (with J.D. Angrist and D. Vuri), American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2017, Volume 9, Number 4, pp. 216-249.
The Effects of Private Equity on Targets: Majority versus Minority Investments (with P. Bortoluzzi, F. Buttignon, and M. Vedovato), Journal of Management and Governance, 2017, Volume 21, Issue 3, pp. 659-684.
Should We Increase Instruction Time in Low Achieving Schools? Evidence from Southern Italy (with E. Meroni), Economics of Education Review, 2016, Volume 55, pp. 39-56.
Survey Instruments and the Reports of Consumption Expenditures: Evidence from the Consumer Expenditure Surveys (with M. Padula), Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series A – Statistics in Society, 2016, Volume 179, Issue 2, pp. 559-581.
Identification and estimation of Engel curves with endogenous and unobserved expenditures (with M. De Nadai), Journal of Applied Econometrics, 2015, Volume 30, Issue 3, pp. 487-508.
Misreported Schooling, Multiple Measures and Returns to Educational Qualifications (with M. De Nadai and B. Sianesi), Journal of Econometrics, 2014, Volume 181, Issue 2, pp. 136-150.
Treatment Effect Estimation with Covariate Measurement Error (with A. Chesher), Journal of Econometrics, 2014, Volume 178, Issue 2, pp. 707-715.
Food and Cash Transfers: Evidence from Colombia (with O. Attanasio and Alice Mesnard), Economic Journal, 2012, Volume 122, Issue559, pp. 92-124.
Connections and Performance in Bankers’ Turnover (with C. Graziano and B. Parigi), European Economic Review, 2012, Volume 56, Number 3, pp. 470-487.
Misclassified Treatment Status and Treatment Effects: An Application to Returns to Education in the UK (with B. Sianesi), Review of Economics and Statistics, 2011, Volume 93, Number 2, pp. 495-509.
Providing Employers with Incentives to Train Low-Skilled Employees: Evidence from the UK Employer Training Pilots (with L. Abramovsky, E. Fitzsimons, A. Goodman and H. Simpson), Journal of Labor Economics, 2011, Volume 29, Number 1, pp. 153-192.
Why is Consumption More Log Normal Than Income? Gibrat’s Law Revisited (with R. Blundell and A. Lewbel), Journal of Political Economy, 2009, Volume 117, Number 6, pp. 1140-1154.
The Retirement Consumption Puzzle: Evidence from a Regression Discontinuity Approach (with A. Brugiavini, E. Rettore and G. Weber), American Economic Review, 2009, Volume 99, Number 5, pp. 2209-2226.
Ineligibles and Eligible Non-Participants as a Double Comparison Group in Regression Discontinuity Designs (with E. Rettore), Journal of Econometrics, 2008, Volume 142, Issue 2, pp.715-730.
Choosing Among Alternative Classification Criteria to Measure the Labour Force Status (with E. Rettore and U. Trivellato), Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series A – Statistics in Society, 2007, Volume 170, Number 1, pp. 5-27.
What Can We Learn From Recall Consumption Data? (with R. Miniaci and G. Weber), Journal of Human Resources, 2003, Volume 38, Number 2, pp. 354-385.
Testing for Programme Effects in a Regression Discontinuity Design with Imperfect Compliance (with E. Rettore), Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series A – Statistics in Society, 2002, Volume 165, Number 1, pp. 39-57.
