About

I am Gaspare, a re-searcher, economist, and economic historian. Italian by birth, I spent the best part of the last decade living and doing research abroad. I joined LISER as a research associate in January 2021. Before moving to Luxembourg, I was a post-doctoral fellow at Hiedelberg Universität (Germany). I pursued my PhD in Economics at Trinity College Dublin (Ireland).

My research interests revolve around migration, innovation, Economic History, and Development and Labour Economics. I am particularly interested in understanding the causes of mass migrations – e.g. globalization, natural disasters, legal changes, demography –, as well as the dynamics of migrants’ self-selection. Given that ideas move with people, I am also keen on quantifying the role of technology transfers, especially in historical contexts.

My most recent personal projects revolve around the demographic transition in Italy and remittances.

I speak Italian, English, French, and German. I like coding languages too: R, RMarkdown, Quarto, SQL, and Python. You can find some reproducible examples in my posts.

I am an advocate of big pictures, long-term perspectives, economic significance, and all sorts of descriptive statistics.