About us We investigate criminal behavior employing detailed data and frontier quantitative methods. We are particularly interested in the activity of criminal organizations pursuing complex illicit businesses such as drug trafficking, corruption, and money laundering. The CLEAN Unit for the Economic Analysis of Crime is part of the BAFFI research center. News Join us through the brand-new INSPIRE INTERNSHIP Program! Applications to the Summer 2026 Round of the INSPIRE Internship Program are now open. CLEAN SEMINAR - Gustavo Bobonis (UofT) The next CLEAN seminar will take place on May 13th 2025 from 12PM CET in Room 5-B3-SR01 Floor 5, Via Röntgen 1. AIBE Workshop 2026 - Call for papers The Call for Papers for the AIBE Workshop 2026 is now open (deadline: April 17, 2026).Submission details are available at this link. Join us through the brand-new LEAP/CLEAN Visiting Program! LEAP and CLEAN are offering one or two visiting fellowships per year to outstanding researchers (faculty members or PhD students) working in one of LEAP/CLEAN’s core research areas. News New IZA Discussion paper - Small Children, Big Problems: Childbirth and Crime A new discussion paper by CLEAN researchers Diogo Britto, Paolo Pinotti, and Breno Sampaio, coathored with Roberto Hsu Rocha, is now available on the IZA website! Keynote Speech: Paolo Pinotti - Bolzano Applied Microeconomics Workshop CLEAN's director Paolo Pinotti was invited as a keynote speaker during the last edition of the Bolzano Applied Microeconomics Workshop, which took place between March 15th and 16th, 2024. Four new papers accepted for publication! We are ecstatic to announce that four new papers from CLEAN researchers have been accepted for publication! CLEAN - LSE Seminar Series - Felipe Valencia Caicedo (University of British Columbia) The next CLEAN seminar, in collaboration with LSE, will take place on Wednesday, May 22nd 2024, from 4-5 p.m. Italian time. Immigration and Crime: An International Perspective Immigrants are often overrepresented among offenders, but immigration does not seem to affect crime rates, and legal status reduces criminality. What gives? Read the paper (published in the Journal of Economic Perspectives) by Olivier Marie and Paolo Pinotti. Newsletter Subscribe and get our newsletter CLEAN Insights SUBSCRIBE People Image Francesca Calamunci Research Fellow Francesca Calamunci is a Tenure-Track Assistant Professor (RTDB) of Political Economy at the University of Catania, and a Research Affiliate at the IZ... Image Martina Vittoria Parisi Research Assistant Martina holds a BSc in International Economics and Management, and an MSc in Economics and Social Sciences from Bocconi University. She has previously... Image Michela Braga Fellow Michela Braga is a Lecturer of the Departement of Economics at Bocconi University since 2003. She obtained a Ph.D. in Economics from Università Boccon... Image Paolo Pinotti Founder and Researcher Paolo Pinotti is Endowed Chair in the Economic Analysis of Crime in the Department of Social and Political Sciences at Bocconi University, Founder of ... Image Francesco Decarolis Research Fellow Associate Professor of Economics at Bocconi University in Milan, Italy, where he teaches and conducts research in industrial organization, with a focu... Image Caio Pedro Castro PhD Student Fellow Caio is a PhD student in Economics at Bocconi University, Milan, Italy. He has a B.A in economics from Insper and a MSc in economics at the University... Image Alexandre Fonseca Research Fellow Alexandre Fonseca is a tax auditor and senior researcher at the Federal Revenue of Brazil. He received his Ph.D. in Economics from the Federal Univers... Image Diego Zambiasi Research Fellow Diego Zambiasi is a Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in Economics at Newcastle University, UK, specialising in the economics of crime. His research exam... Image Massimo Pulejo Research Fellow Massimo Pulejo is an Assistant Professor of Economics (RTT) at Roma Tre University. Prior to joining Roma Tre, he was a postdoctoral fellow at the Uni... Image Lavinia Piemontese Research Fellow Lavinia Piemontese is Assistant Professor of Economics at the University of Bologna. Previously, she was a Marie Skłodowska-Cuire Fellow for the proje... Image Yuri Barreto Research Fellow Yuri Barreto earned his PhD in Economics from the Federal University of Pernambuco (Brazil) in 2023 and is currently a postdoctoral researcher at Bocc... Image Giovanna Marcolongo Research Fellow Giovanna Marcolongo completed her PhD in Economics at Boston University in 2020 and is now a postdoctoral fellow at Bocconi University. She works at t... Image Gianmarco Daniele Executive Director and Researcher Gianmarco Daniele is an Associate Professor at University of Milan. He obtained his PhD in 2015 at Vrije Universiteit Brussel. He has then worked as p... Image Gema Lax Martínez Research Fellow Gema Lax Martínez is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Catholic University of Milan. She holds a PhD in Economics from the University of Lausanne.... Image Caique Melo PhD Student Fellow Caíque Melo is a PhD Student in Social and Political Science at Bocconi University. He earned his BA and MSc in Economics in Brazil. His research delv... Image Diogo Britto Scientific Director Diogo Britto is Assistant Professor of Economics at the University of Milan-Bicocca, Director of the CLEAN Unit at Bocconi University, and UniCredit F... Image Livio Di Lonardo Research Fellow Livio Di Lonardo is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Social and Political Sciences at Bocconi University and a Research Affiliate at the Ca... Image Breno Sampaio Research Fellow Breno Sampaio is Associate Professor in the Department of Economics at Universidade Federal de Pernambuco/UFPE, Brazil and Director of the Group for t... Image Michele Polo Research Fellow Michele Polo (PhD) is Full Professor in Economics and ENI Chair in Energy Markets at Bocconi University (Milan, Italy). His research interests are in ... Image Antonio León Postdoctoral Researcher I am a Postdoctoral Researcher at the CLEAN Research Unit at Bocconi. Before joining Bocconi, I was a PhD student at QMUL, and a visiting scholar... prev next Where we work Our projects take place across several countries, mostly in Europe and North and South America
New IZA Discussion paper - Small Children, Big Problems: Childbirth and Crime A new discussion paper by CLEAN researchers Diogo Britto, Paolo Pinotti, and Breno Sampaio, coathored with Roberto Hsu Rocha, is now available on the IZA website!
Keynote Speech: Paolo Pinotti - Bolzano Applied Microeconomics Workshop CLEAN's director Paolo Pinotti was invited as a keynote speaker during the last edition of the Bolzano Applied Microeconomics Workshop, which took place between March 15th and 16th, 2024.
Four new papers accepted for publication! We are ecstatic to announce that four new papers from CLEAN researchers have been accepted for publication!
CLEAN - LSE Seminar Series - Felipe Valencia Caicedo (University of British Columbia) The next CLEAN seminar, in collaboration with LSE, will take place on Wednesday, May 22nd 2024, from 4-5 p.m. Italian time.
