Piera Bello

Biographic Data

ID3605638
NAMEPiera Bello
GIVEN NAMESPiera
FAMILY NAMEBello
SIGNATUREBELLO P
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Bergamo
ORCID0000-0001-7066-875X
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS7
TOTAL CITATIONS2
WORKS AS AUTHOR7
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2014
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX1

  • Gender stereotypes and children’s performance in primary schools

    Open AccessPiera Bello, Annalisa Cristini et al.ARTICLEReview of Economics of the…2026

    This paper investigates the impact of exposure to teacher stereotypes on student achievement in primary schools. We measure both implicit and explicit stereotypes using item-based questions available in the European Value Survey and the Gender-Science Implicit Association Test. By exploiting the random assignment of students to teachers with different levels of stereotypes, we show that the gender gap in math performance, defined as the differenc…

  • Study strategies during emergency-related distance learning. The role of gender and field of study

    Open AccessPiera Bello, Annalisa Cristini et al.ARTICLEThe Journal of Economic Inequality2025References: 1

    We study the impact of distance learning on students’ exam choices and achievement in higher education, pointing to the mediating role of the field of study and gender. Identification relies on the exogenous shift from in-person to online teaching during the second semester of the 2019–2020 academic year in Italy due to the sudden outbreak of COVID-19. We estimate Difference-in-Differences models using administrative data for different cohorts of…

  • Research Similarity and Women in Academia

    Open AccessPiera Bello, Alessandra Casarico et al.ARTICLEThe Economic Journal2025

    We investigate the extent to which research similarity between senior and junior researchers is related to promotion in academia and study implications for gender diversity among academic staff. Using data on the universe of job applications for tenure track assistant professor positions in economics in Italy, and applying NLP techniques (i.e., document embeddings) to the abstract of each publication of the scholars in our dataset, we propose a n…

  • Education and Covid-19 excess mortality

    Open AccessPiera Bello, Lorenzo RoccoARTICLEEconomics & Human Biology2022

  • The politics of ageing and retirement

    Piera Bello, Vincenzo GalassoARTICLEPopulation Studies2021Cited by: 2

    Ageing threatens the financial sustainability of pay-as-you-go pension systems, since it increases the share of retirees to workers. An often-advocated policy response is to increase retirement age. Ironically, however, the political support for this policy may actually be hindered by population ageing. Using Swiss administrative voting data at municipal level from pension reform referenda (and individual survey data), we show in fact that indivi…

  • Exchange rate effects on cross-border commuting

    Open AccessPiera BelloARTICLEJournal of Economic Geography2019References: 1

    Are cross-border workers responsive to changes in the exchange rate between the home and host countries’ currencies? I answer this question by examining the effects of the appreciation of the Swiss franc (CHF) relative to the euro (EUR) on labour supply decisions of Italian cross-border workers. I use hourly data on traffic flows in Ticino, the southernmost canton of Switzerland, together with three additional datasets (the Cross-border Commuter …

  • Gender quotas and the quality of politicians

    Open AccessAudinga Baltrunaite, Piera Bello et al.ARTICLEJournal of Public Economics2014