Professor of Econometrics at the Dept. of Economics and Management, University of Padova, and affiliated to FBK-IRVAPP (Trento). His research interests cover a variety of fields of econometrics, ranging from methodological aspects to more applied work in labor economics and program evaluation. On these topics he has published in various journals, including the American Economic Review, the Journal of Econometrics, the Review of Economics and Statistics. He has extensively worked in the evaluation of welfare and labor market programs in Italy. He is a Section Editor of the Springer Nature Handbook “Labor, Human Resources and Population Economics” for Program and Policy Evaluations.