Working Papers

​​Higher Salaries or Higher Pensions? Inferring Preferences from Teachers' Retirement Behavior  [SSRN]
​Coverage Teacherpensions.org

The Labor Market for Teachers Under Different Pay Schemes  [SSRN] (under review - updated!)
[previously circulated as "Unions, Salaries, and The Market for Teachers"]
NBER Working Paper n. 24813
2016 NAEd/Spencer Dissertation Fellowship; Selected "Best Applied Paper" during the  Econometric Society European Summer Meeting 2016
​Policy brief: Cato Institute
Press coverage: Wall Street Journal (1/31/2017, 10/11/2018, 2/14/2019)

School Finance Equalization Increases Intergenerational Mobility: Evidence from a Simulated Instruments Approach [SSRN] [Appendix] (under review)
NBER Working Paper n. 25600
​Policy brief: Voxeu.org

Effects of Copyrights on Science (with Petra Moser) [SSRN] (Conditionally accepted, American Economic Journal: Microeconomics)
NBER Working Paper n. 24255, CEPR Discussion Paper n. 12651
NBER Digest, March 2018 Issue
Policy briefs & coverage: The Economist, Voxeu.org, Cato Institute, Marginal Revolution

Career Effects of Mental Health (with Michael Dahl and Petra Moser) [SSRN]
Press coverage: Business Insider, 7/16/2015

Work in Progress

"Mental Health and Creativity" (with Michael Dahl and Petra Moser)
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“Equilibrium in Teachers’ Labor Markets with Flexible Pay"  (with ​Chao Fu and John Stromme)

“Flexible Pay, Bargaining, and The Gender Gap” (with Heather Sarsons)

​“The Education-Innovation Gap” (with Song Ma)

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Publications

Biasi, B. 2012. Healthcare and Federalism: a Political Economy Approach. Rivista di Politica Economica, SIPI Spa, issue 4, pages 39-78, October-D.

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