Eleonora Patacchini
Biographic Data
| ID | 635912 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Eleonora Patacchini |
| GIVEN NAMES | Eleonora |
| FAMILY NAME | Patacchini |
| SIGNATURE | PATACCHINI E |
| AFFILIATIONS | Cornell University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3510-2969 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 31 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 94 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 31 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Special issue on Immigration Economics at Journal of Economic Geography
Dynamic Choices with Social Interactions
We introduce the study of dynamic, forward-looking equilibrium choices in environments characterized by social interactions. Agents’ preferences capture inter-temporal links - such as, e.g., habits and addictions - as well as attitudes to conform to a social reference group. We characterise equilibrium behaviour as a system of linear non-stationary Markovian policy rules, for each individual and in each time period. We then derive conditions for …
Interactions with Powerful Female Colleagues Promote Diversity in Hiring
We study the effect of hearing cases alongside female judicial colleagues on the probability that a federal judge hires a female law clerk. Federal judges are assigned to judicial panels at random and have few limitations on their choices of clerks. Using a unique dataset of federal case records merged with judicial hiring information, we find a significant effect of the fraction of copanelists who are female on a male judge’s likelihood of hirin…
Information Transmission in a Social Network: A Field Experiment
Using an app for smartphones, we run an experiment among high-school students to study the pattern of aggregation of sparsely distributed information. Agents are randomly arranged in small networks and can share only non-verifiable pieces of information. Results show that while information exchange is high, the level and the distribution of centralities among network members are important to shape the overall level of information aggregation. A r…
Experimental Methods for Measuring Social Networks without Censoring
We elicit social networks among students in an Italian high school either by measuring the complete network in an incentive-compatible way or by using a truncated elicitation of at most five links. We find that truncation undercounts weak links by up to 90% but only moderately undercounts the time spent with strong friends. We use simulations to demonstrate that the measurement error induced by censoring might be particularly significant when stu…
Abstentions and Social Networks in Congress
We study the extent to which personal connections among legislators influence abstentions in the U.S. Congress. Our analysis is conducted by observing representatives' abstention for the universe of roll call votes held on bills in the 109th-113th Congresses. Our results show that a legislator's propensity to abstain increases when the majority of his or her alumni connections abstains, even after controlling for other well-known predictors of ab…
Who is the Key Player? A Network Analysis of Juvenile Delinquency
This article presents a methodology for empirically identifying the key player, whose removal from the network leads to the optimal change in aggregate activity level in equilibrium [Ballester, C., Calvó-Armengol, A., and Zenou, Y. (2006), “Who’s Who in Networks. Wanted: The Key Player,” Econometrica, 74: 1403–1417], allowing the network links to rewire after the removal of the key player. First, we propose an IV-based estimation strategy for the…
Treatment Effects With Heterogeneous Externalities
This article proposes a new method for estimating heterogeneous externalities in policy analysis when social interactions take the linear-in-means form. We establish that the parameters of interest can be identified and consistently estimated using specific functions of the share of the eligible population. We also study the finite sample performance of the proposed estimators using Monte Carlo simulations. The method is illustrated using data on…
Social Groups and the Effectiveness of Protests
We present an informational theory of public protests, according to which public protests allow citizens to aggregate privately dispersed information and signal it to the policy maker. The model predicts that information sharing of signals within social groups can facilitate information aggregation when the social groups are sufficiently large even when it is not predicted with individual signals. We use experiments in the laboratory and on Amazo…
Friendship and Female Education: Evidence from a Field Experiment in Bangladeshi Primary Schools
We randomly assigned 115 primary schools in Bangladesh to one of two settings: children studying in groups with friends and children studying in groups with peers. The groups consisted of four people with similar average cognitive abilities and household characteristics. While the achievement of male students was not affected by the group assignment, low-ability females with friends outperformed low-ability females working with peers by roughly 0…
Effectiveness of Connected Legislators
Important work has been done to measure legislative effectiveness in the U.S. Congress and to explain the individual characteristics that drive it. Much less attention, however, has been devoted to study the extent to which legislative effectiveness depends on the legislators' social connections. We address this issue with a new model of legislative effectiveness that formalizes the role of social connections, and we test its predictions using th…
Influencing Connected Legislators
This paper studies how interest groups allocate campaign contributions when congressmen are connected by social ties. We establish conditions for the existence of a unique Nash equilibrium in pure strategies for the contribution game and characterize the associated allocation of the interest groups’ moneys. While the allocations are generally complex functions of the environment (the voting function, the legislators’ preferences, and the social n…
Bend it like Beckham: Ethnic identity and integration
Racial identity and education in social networks
Neighborhood Effects in Education
Immigration, Housing Discrimination and Employment
We use a new data set on Italy and a novel identification strategy to analyse the relationship between migrants' employment status and the percentage of non‐Italians living nearby. Our data contain information at the very local level and are representative of both legal and illegal migrants. Identification exploits the physical characteristics of local buildings as a source of exogenous variation in the incidence of migrants. We find that migrant…
Female labour market participation in Europe: Novel evidence on trends and shaping factors
We investigate the changes in women’s participation patterns across 15 EU countries over the last 20 years using individual data from ECHP and EUSILC databases. Our findings show that the observed trends in female participation differ substantially both across countries and across different groups of women. We explore such heterogeneity in trends by looking at the effects of policies and labour market institutional factors on the participation of…
Unexplored dimensions of discrimination in Europe: Homosexuality and physical appearance
Peer effects in the demand for housing quality
Ethnic identity and labour market outcomes of immigrants in Europe: Immigrants and the Labour Market
We study the relationship between ethnic identity and labour market outcomes of non-EU immigrants in Europe. Using the European Social Survey, we find that there is a penalty to be paid for immigrants with a strong identity. Being a first generation immigrant leads to a penalty of about 17% while second-generation immigrants have a probability of being employed that is not statistically different from that of natives. However, when they have a st…
Formation and persistence of oppositional identities
Bend It Like Beckham: Ethnic Identity and Integration
We propose a theoretical framework to study the determinants of ethnic and religious identity along two distinct motivational processes which have been proposed in the social sciences: cultural conformity and cultural distinction. Under cultural conformity, ethnic identity is reduced by neighborhood integration, which weakens group loyalties and prejudices. On the contrary, under cultural distinction, ethnic minorities are more motivated in retai…
Bend it Like Beckham: Ethnic Identity and Integration
Peer Effects and Social Networks in Education
Are Muslim Immigrants Different in Terms of Cultural Integration
Using the UK Fourth National Survey of Ethnic Minorities, we explore the determinants of religious identity for Muslims and non-Muslims. We find that Muslims integrate less and more slowly than non-Muslims. A Muslim born in the UK and having spent there more than 50 years shows a comparable level of probability of having a strong religious identity than a non-Muslim just arrived in the country. Furthermore, Muslims seem to follow a different inte…
Immigration, Housing Discrimination and Employment
We use a new data set on Italy and a novel identification strategy to analyse the relationship between migrants' employment status and the percentage of non‐Italians living nearby. Our data contain information at the very local level and are representative of both legal and illegal migrants. Identification exploits the physical characteristics of local buildings as a source of exogenous variation in the incidence of migrants. We find that migrant…
Effectiveness of Connected Legislators
Important work has been done to measure legislative effectiveness in the U.S. Congress and to explain the individual characteristics that drive it. Much less attention, however, has been devoted to study the extent to which legislative effectiveness depends on the legislators' social connections. We address this issue with a new model of legislative effectiveness that formalizes the role of social connections, and we test its predictions using th…
Unexplored dimensions of discrimination in Europe: Homosexuality and physical appearance
Spatial mismatch, transport mode and search decisions in England
Spatial dependence in local unemployment rates
By explicitly considering the spatial dimension of local regional labor markets, we develop a simple dynamic model that explains the spatial correlation between unemployment rates. We then test this model by using UK local data. Our evidence shows a significant spatial dependence that has been growing over time and characterized by a low distance decay. Highly localized effects are explained by commuting flows. These results are consistent with t…
Geography and Economic Performance: Exploratory Spatial Data Analysis for Great Britain
Patacchini E. and Rice P. (2007) Geography and economic performance: exploratory spatial data analysis for Great Britain, Regional Studies 41, 489–508. This paper uses the techniques of exploratory spatial data analysis to analyse patterns of spatial association for different indicators of economic performance, and in so doing it identifies and describes the spatial structure of economic performance for Great Britain. This approach enables one to…
Influencing Connected Legislators
This paper studies how interest groups allocate campaign contributions when congressmen are connected by social ties. We establish conditions for the existence of a unique Nash equilibrium in pure strategies for the contribution game and characterize the associated allocation of the interest groups’ moneys. While the allocations are generally complex functions of the environment (the voting function, the legislators’ preferences, and the social n…
Peer effects in the demand for housing quality
Spatial mismatch, transport mode and search decisions in England
Spatial determinants of productivity: Analysis for the regions of Great Britain
Active Labor Market Policies in Europe
Are Muslim Immigrants Different in Terms of Cultural Integration
Spatial dependence in local unemployment rates
By explicitly considering the spatial dimension of local regional labor markets, we develop a simple dynamic model that explains the spatial correlation between unemployment rates. We then test this model by using UK local data. Our evidence shows a significant spatial dependence that has been growing over time and characterized by a low distance decay. Highly localized effects are explained by commuting flows. These results are consistent with t…
Geography and Economic Performance: Exploratory Spatial Data Analysis for Great Britain
Patacchini E. and Rice P. (2007) Geography and economic performance: exploratory spatial data analysis for Great Britain, Regional Studies 41, 489–508. This paper uses the techniques of exploratory spatial data analysis to analyse patterns of spatial association for different indicators of economic performance, and in so doing it identifies and describes the spatial structure of economic performance for Great Britain. This approach enables one to…
Are Muslim Immigrants Different in Terms of Cultural Integration
Using the UK Fourth National Survey of Ethnic Minorities, we explore the determinants of religious identity for Muslims and non-Muslims. We find that Muslims integrate less and more slowly than non-Muslims. A Muslim born in the UK and having spent there more than 50 years shows a comparable level of probability of having a strong religious identity than a non-Muslim just arrived in the country. Furthermore, Muslims seem to follow a different inte…
Peer Effects and Social Networks in Education
Bend It Like Beckham: Ethnic Identity and Integration
We propose a theoretical framework to study the determinants of ethnic and religious identity along two distinct motivational processes which have been proposed in the social sciences: cultural conformity and cultural distinction. Under cultural conformity, ethnic identity is reduced by neighborhood integration, which weakens group loyalties and prejudices. On the contrary, under cultural distinction, ethnic minorities are more motivated in retai…
Bend it Like Beckham: Ethnic Identity and Integration
Ethnic identity and labour market outcomes of immigrants in Europe: Immigrants and the Labour Market
We study the relationship between ethnic identity and labour market outcomes of non-EU immigrants in Europe. Using the European Social Survey, we find that there is a penalty to be paid for immigrants with a strong identity. Being a first generation immigrant leads to a penalty of about 17% while second-generation immigrants have a probability of being employed that is not statistically different from that of natives. However, when they have a st…
Formation and persistence of oppositional identities
Female labour market participation in Europe: Novel evidence on trends and shaping factors
We investigate the changes in women’s participation patterns across 15 EU countries over the last 20 years using individual data from ECHP and EUSILC databases. Our findings show that the observed trends in female participation differ substantially both across countries and across different groups of women. We explore such heterogeneity in trends by looking at the effects of policies and labour market institutional factors on the participation of…
Unexplored dimensions of discrimination in Europe: Homosexuality and physical appearance
Peer effects in the demand for housing quality
Neighborhood Effects in Education
Immigration, Housing Discrimination and Employment
We use a new data set on Italy and a novel identification strategy to analyse the relationship between migrants' employment status and the percentage of non‐Italians living nearby. Our data contain information at the very local level and are representative of both legal and illegal migrants. Identification exploits the physical characteristics of local buildings as a source of exogenous variation in the incidence of migrants. We find that migrant…
Bend it like Beckham: Ethnic identity and integration
Racial identity and education in social networks
Influencing Connected Legislators
This paper studies how interest groups allocate campaign contributions when congressmen are connected by social ties. We establish conditions for the existence of a unique Nash equilibrium in pure strategies for the contribution game and characterize the associated allocation of the interest groups’ moneys. While the allocations are generally complex functions of the environment (the voting function, the legislators’ preferences, and the social n…
Treatment Effects With Heterogeneous Externalities
This article proposes a new method for estimating heterogeneous externalities in policy analysis when social interactions take the linear-in-means form. We establish that the parameters of interest can be identified and consistently estimated using specific functions of the share of the eligible population. We also study the finite sample performance of the proposed estimators using Monte Carlo simulations. The method is illustrated using data on…
Social Groups and the Effectiveness of Protests
We present an informational theory of public protests, according to which public protests allow citizens to aggregate privately dispersed information and signal it to the policy maker. The model predicts that information sharing of signals within social groups can facilitate information aggregation when the social groups are sufficiently large even when it is not predicted with individual signals. We use experiments in the laboratory and on Amazo…
Friendship and Female Education: Evidence from a Field Experiment in Bangladeshi Primary Schools
We randomly assigned 115 primary schools in Bangladesh to one of two settings: children studying in groups with friends and children studying in groups with peers. The groups consisted of four people with similar average cognitive abilities and household characteristics. While the achievement of male students was not affected by the group assignment, low-ability females with friends outperformed low-ability females working with peers by roughly 0…
Effectiveness of Connected Legislators
Important work has been done to measure legislative effectiveness in the U.S. Congress and to explain the individual characteristics that drive it. Much less attention, however, has been devoted to study the extent to which legislative effectiveness depends on the legislators' social connections. We address this issue with a new model of legislative effectiveness that formalizes the role of social connections, and we test its predictions using th…
Who is the Key Player? A Network Analysis of Juvenile Delinquency
This article presents a methodology for empirically identifying the key player, whose removal from the network leads to the optimal change in aggregate activity level in equilibrium [Ballester, C., Calvó-Armengol, A., and Zenou, Y. (2006), “Who’s Who in Networks. Wanted: The Key Player,” Econometrica, 74: 1403–1417], allowing the network links to rewire after the removal of the key player. First, we propose an IV-based estimation strategy for the…
Economics (21 works) · Sociology (15 works) · Demographic economics (12 works) · Political science (12 works) · Psychology (11 works) · Law (10 works) · Computer Science (9 works) · Social Psychology (9 works) · Ethnic group (7 works) · Mathematics (7 works)