Research
Research
“Big Five Personality Traits and Retirement Decisions” (with Claudio Lucifora). Labour, 2021. Article Link
We estimate the effect of the Big Five personality traits on the retirement decisions of individuals aged between 50 and 80 years in fourteen European countries, using wave 7 from the SHARE data. We investigate the probability of retirement and a measure of the distance between actual retirement and ordinary retirement age. Overall, we find that personality affects retirement decisions, and the effects are similar across gender. Openness to experience, conscientiousness and extraversion are generally associated with a delay in retirement decisions, whereas neuroticism anticipates the exit from the labour market.
"Gender Mix Prescription: Is it the Cure for Job Satisfaction and Retention?" (with M. Agnoletto). Latest Draft Here
We investigate the effects of gender composition within general practices on overall job satisfaction, its associated lower-level domains, service quality and retention rates of general practitioners (GPs). Using data from the nationally representative Medicine in Australia: Balancing Employment and Life (MABEL) panel, we estimate an individual fixed-effects model and address potential endogeneity in several ways. We show that an increase in the female share of GPs within a practice positively influences overall job satisfaction and various well-being components, with female GPs driving the effects. However, we also highlight the importance of gender diversity, as the effects become negative when an increase in the female share comes at the expense of gender balance. To obtain an equivalent effect on overall job satisfaction, gross annual earnings would need to increase by approximately AUD 746,000. Additionally, our findings show positive effects on retention intentions. Potential mechanisms underlying these effects include a greater understanding of work-life balance among colleagues, improved workplace support, and reduced job-related stress.
"The Pandemic's Ripple Effect: Unveiling the Decline in Outpatient Care for Chronic Patients in Italy" (with Claudio Lucifora & Antonio Russo)
In this paper we use the COVID-19 pandemic as a natural experiment to assess the impact of shocks on outpatient care utilisation for chronic patients aged 50 and older in Italy. We merge administrative data on outpatient services with information on excess deaths. To account for confounding factors and individual-level unobserved heterogeneity, we implement an individual level fixed-effects estimator. The results indicate that excess deaths are associated with a decline in receiving outpatient services, that is the probability of receiving at least one medical treatment per month. When conditioned on visiting a healthcare facility, we also find a reduction in terms of the volume of care received. A heterogeneity analysis highlights that the extensive margin reduction is more substantial for sicker patients and is consistent across demographic characteristics. These findings suggest that pandemic shocks also influence health behaviour in terms of healthcare seeking in a group of patients previously thought to have inelastic demand.
"The Impact of COVID-19 Restrictions on Parents’ Mental Health and Substance Use" (with S. Mendez, S. Sawyer & J. Moschion)
"Does the Gender of Physicians Affect Healthcare Utilisation?"
Pursuit Article on Women's Health Funding - here
Chapter 1.1, 1.2, 1.5 in I territori e gli obiettivi di sviluppo sostenibile, Rapporto ASviS 2021, 2021
Contributions in I territori e gli obiettivi di sviluppo sostenibile, Rapporto ASviS 2020, 2020
SDG4 and SDG8 in Rapporto Lombardia 2020, ISBN 978-88-6250-809-4, 113-129, 183-201, 2020
Contributions in Alla ricerca del benessere: desideri, timori, rappresentazioni della Milano che sar`a. Presentazione della ricerca Policy Delphi del laboratorio sul futuro milano2046, Comune di Milano, 2020