Costanza Giannantoni

PostDoc @DiSSE_Sapienza | interested in public, regional economics and political economy | visited @CanadaBlanchLSE | sachertorte lover

[Costanza Giannantoni @__costanza]

Finally sharing my JMP, about the efficiency and distributional effects of administrative decentralization.

The question: Does admin dec improve public spending efficiency everywhere, or does it widen the gap between institutionally strong and weak municipalities? Which are the fiscal and political mechanisms behind?

Joint w/ @augusto_cerqua

Full paper: https://t.co/S02DQNQYlQ

JMP Thread (1/12) #EconTwitter #EconJobMarket

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In aula al processo della strage di #Cutro come rappresentante di Amnesty International, l’attrice Valeria Solarino: “Seguiamo con curiosità morbosa ogni fatto di cronaca, mentre 94 migranti morti, tra cui 34 minori, non fanno più notizia”.
Gli inviati mai arrivati

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📢 Hiring a Research Assistant! Looking for an undergraduate student interested in public & gender to help with data digitization and analysis for ongoing research projects. Knowledge of Italian is required. Paid position. DM/email if interested, and please share!

[Costanza Giannantoni @__costanza]

@Masek_F @SapienzaRoma @c_cantore @FlorinBilbiie congrats again Frantisek! :))

[Costanza Giannantoni @__costanza]

📄 Read the full paper "Femicides, anti-violence centers, and policy targeting" here: https://t.co/ZuDKfmlwov
Data available on our companion site (https://t.co/eAfnste4Fy)
#EconTwitter

[Costanza Giannantoni @__costanza]

New 🧵: Femicides remain a critical systemic failure, even in countries where general homicide rates are decreasing.

How can we better target policy interventions? And how can we optimize the deployment of Anti-Violence Centers (AVCs) to maximize their impact?

In our new paper in European Economic Review, we use ML & Causal Inference to find out. #EconTwitter🧵👇

w/ @augusto_cerqua, @marco_lett, @gabrieleaopinto, data available on companion website: https://t.co/RxyXDM9NW4

[Costanza Giannantoni @__costanza]

Our takeaways for policymakers:
1. Femicides have systematic territorial predictors; they are not just "random" individual tragedies.
2. Predictive analytics (ML) can improve resource allocation.
3. AVCs work, but we need to increase their coverage, particularly in the right places, and should be complemented by additional policies against gender-based violence.

[Costanza Giannantoni @__costanza]

The main takeaway:

Administrative decentralization generates efficiency gains on average but it’s not neutral and creates a trade-off

It benefits the strong but imposes economic costs on the weak. Without adequate bureaucratic capacity admin dec risks widening territorial disparities

Full paper here: https://t.co/S02DQNQYlQ
Comments more than welcome!

12/12

[Costanza Giannantoni @__costanza]

Finally sharing my JMP, about the efficiency and distributional effects of administrative decentralization.

The question: Does admin dec improve public spending efficiency everywhere, or does it widen the gap between institutionally strong and weak municipalities? Which are the fiscal and political mechanisms behind?

Joint w/ @augusto_cerqua

Full paper: https://t.co/S02DQNQYlQ

JMP Thread (1/12) #EconTwitter #EconJobMarket

[Costanza Giannantoni @__costanza]

Finally, the consequences for local economic well-being

High-capacity municipalities maintain their pre-reform income growth path

Low-capacity municipalities experience a persistent loss in income per capita, showing the distributional consequences of uniform administrative decentralization

11/12