Giacomo Battiston

About

I am currently a Postdoctoral researcher at the ROCKWOOL Foundation in Berlin and a Research Associate of the Berlin School of Economics. My interests include political economy and labor economics, with a particular focus on the economics of migration. In my work, I apply structural econometric models to broad questions in political economy, and I use experimental methods to investigate the determinants of migration.

In `Rescue on Stage: Border Enforcement and Public Attention in the Mediterranean', I study border enforcement at the southern borders of the EU. I investigate the conflicting objectives of policy in managing migration flows, and the role of public and media attention in influencing policy decisions. Find here a post about this paper on the World Bank Development Impact Blog.

With coauthors, I ran a randomized controlled trial in the Republic of Guinea, where we evaluate the impact of an information intervention about risk and economic outcomes of migration on migration decisions.