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Email: troiano@ugotroiano.org
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Position: Associate Professor, with tenure, at the University of California Riverside
Op-Eds
- The blind spot in global antitrust. Press-Enterprise and San Diego Union Tribune. November 29 2025.
- Who should pay for society’s shocks? Press-Enterprise and SCNG. October 25 2025.
- When crime spikes, trust fades – and democracy suffers. Press-Enterprise and SCNG. October 15 2025.
- When is it Right to Bomb a Hospital? Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. April 2 2025.
- A Better Way to Deal with Asylum-Seekers. Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. July 6 2024.
- Shaming Those Who Skip Out on Taxes (with R. Perez-Truglia). New York Times. April 15 2015.
Working Papers
- Justice at What Cost? Penalties, Rape Deterrence, and the Incentive to Murder, with R. Bansal. 2025. Submitted.
- Social Insurance During Lockdowns: Fiscal Policy with Systemic Occupational Risk. 2025. Submitted.
- Career Sacrifice in Couple Formation: Social Norms or Labor Market Realities?
- The Consequences of State Policy Ideology for Education and Inequality.
- Intergovernmental Cooperation and Tax Enforcement.
- The Political Economy of Violent Crime, Social Capital and the Rise of Conservativism. 2025. Submitted.
Published Papers
- Women in the Labor Market and Experienced Political Institutions. Forthcoming, Economics&Politics.
- Social Capital, Government Expenditures, and Growth, with G. A M Ponzetto. Journal of the European Economic Association, 2024.
- Income Tax, Fiscal Capacity, and Migration: Evidence from U.S. States, with T. Cassidy and M. Dincecco. American Economic Journal: Economic Policy. vol. 16, no. 1, (pp. 359–93). Selected media coverage: Washington Post.
- Shaming Tax Delinquents: Evidence from a Field Experiment in the United States, with R. Perez-Truglia. Selected media coverage: New York Times, U.S. News, National Review, NPR (includes audio), WSB-TV Atlanta (includes video), Palm Beach Post, New Orleans Local News, Charlotte News, Atlanta News, VoxEu, Pew Charitable Trust, Z24 (in Dutch), CafeBiz (in Vietnamese). Published in the Journal of Public Economics (2018)
- Old and Young Politicians, with A. Alesina and T. Cassidy. Covered by VoxEu, Business Spectator, Die Presse, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Veja. Economica (2019)
- What Happens When a Woman Wins an Election? Evidence from Close Races in Brazil, with F. Brollo. Journal of the Development Economics. Covered by Le Monde (in French), L’Espresso (in Italian). 2016.
- Do Fiscal Rules Matter?, with V. Grembi and T. Nannicini. American Economic Journal: Applied Economics. 2016
- Ghost-House Busters: The Electoral Response to a Large Anti Tax Evasion Program, with L. Casaburi. Media Coverage (L’Espresso) in Italian. Quarterly Journal of Economics. 2016
- Law Economics and Culture: Theory of Mandated Benefits and Evidence from Maternal Leave Policies (2012), Journal of Law and Economics, vol. 55(2), pages 339-364, with Y. Givati. Covered by U.S. News, KVInfo (in Danish).
- Social Capital and Political Accountability (2012), American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, vol. 5(2), pages 222-250, with T. Nannicini, A. Stella and G. Tabellini. Covered by Linkiesta( in Italian), Knowledge Bocconi.
Other Papers
Review of Peterson and Nadler, The Global Debt Crisis: Haunting U.S. and European Federalism (2014), Journal of Economic Literature, Vol. 52 No. 4