Here's last year's program. The conference is generously funded by Brown University through the Orlando Bravo Center for Economic Research and the PPE Center

4/ I test this using a novel dataset tracking mafia expansion from the 1960s onward. By scraping historical newspapers and validating with judicial data, I create the first municipal-level, time-varying measure of mafia presence in Italy. 📰

Female politicians face an additional gender gap: they are 3️⃣ times more likely to experience violence while in office.

We study the reasons and consequences of violence in a new paper, summarized in this column cepr.org/voxeu/column...

With @mpulejo.bsky.social and Gianmarco Daniele