Department of Economics and Statistics "Cognetti de Martiis"

Research products

All my research products

Selected research products

1 Publications in peer reviewed journals

Di Tommaso M.L., Contini D., De Rosa D., Ferrara F., Piazzalunga D. and Ornella Robutti, (2024) Tackling the Gender Gap in Math with Active Learning Methodologies. Economics of Education Review, Economics of Education Review, 100, 102538. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.econedurev.2024.102538

Contini D, Di Tommaso ML, Piazzalunga D. (2022) Pandemia di COVID-19 e apprendimenti scolastici: che cosa abbiamo imparato? [Lesson learnt about learning in Italy during the COVID-19 pandemic]. Epidemiologia & Prevenzione. 46(4):236-237. doi: 10.19191/EP22.4.A549.072. PMID: 36259340.

Contini, D., Di Tommaso, M.L., Muratori, C., Piazzalunga, D., Schiavon, S. (2022) Who lost the most? Mathematics achievement during the COVID-19 pandemic", The B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis and Policy, 22(2), pp 399–408 https://doi.org/10.1515/bejeap-2021-0447

Leif Andreassen, Maria Laura Di Tommaso & Anna Maccagnan (2022) Do Men Care? Estimating Men’s Preferences for Spending Time with Their Children, Journal of Human Development and Capabilities. 23 (4), pp 562-592, DOI: 10.1080/19452829.2021.2023486

Marina Della Giusta, Maria Laura Di Tommaso, Sarah Jewell, and Francesca Bettio (2021) Quashing demand or changing clients? Evidence of criminalisation of sex work in the UK. Southern Economic Journal. 88(2), pp 527-544 https://doi.org/10.1002/soej.12532

Di Tommaso M.L. Maccagnan A. Mendolia S. (2021), The Gender Gap in Attitude and Test Scores: a New Construct of the Mathematical Capability, Feminist Economics, 27 (3), pp 161-187 https://doi.org/10.1080/13545701.2021.1908574

Piazzalunga D., Di Tommaso M. L., 2019, “The increase of the gender wage gap in Italy during the 2008-2012 economic crisis”, Journal of Economic Inequality, 17 (2), pp 171–193.
Doi 10.1007/s10888-018-9396-8

Andreassen, L. Di Tommaso M.L. (2018), “Estimating capabilities with random scale models. Women’s freedom of movement”, Social Choice and Welfare, 50(4), pp 625-661, doi.org/10.1007/s00355-017-1099-8

Bettio F. Della Giusta M. Di Tommaso M.L. (2017), “Sex work and trafficking: Moving beyond dichotomies”, Feminist Economics, 23(3), pp 1-22.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13545701.2017.1330547

Contini D., Di Tommaso M.L., Mendolia S. (2017), “The gender gap in mathematics achievement:
Evidence from Italian data.” Economics of Education Review, 58, pp 32-42. doi
10.1016/j.econedurev.2017.03.001

Andreassen, L., Di Tommaso, M.L, Strøm S. (2017), Nurses and physicians: A longitudinal analysis of mobility between jobs and labor supply. Empirical Economics, 52 (4) pp 1235-1269 doi:10.1007/s00181-016-1116-2.

Della Giusta, M., Di Tommaso M.L., Jewell S. (2017) Stigma and Risky Behaviors Among Male clients of Sex Workers in the UK in 2001, Feminist Economics, 23(3). pp 23-48
doi: 10.1080/13545701.2016.1203453

Della Giusta, M., Di Tommaso M.L., Jewell S. (2017), Men buying sex. Differences between urban and rural areas in the UK. Urban Studies, 54(3) pp713-729.
Addabbo T. Di Tommaso M. L., Maccagnan A. (2016), Education capability: a focus on gender and science. Social Indicators Research. 128 (2):793-812.

Addabbo T. Di Tommaso M. L., Maccagnan A. (2014), “Gender Differences in Italian Children Capabilities”, Feminist Economics, vol. 20, 2, pp 90-121.

Andreassen, L. Di Tommaso, M. L., Strøm S. (2013), “Do medical doctors respond to economic incentives?” Journal of Health Economics, vol 32, pg 392-409.

Bonomi, G., Brosio G. Di Tommaso M.L. (2013) “The Impact of Gender Quotas on Votes for Women Candidates: Evidence from Italy”, Feminist Economics, vol. 19, 4, pp 48-75. DOI:10.1080/13545701.2013.825375.
Di Tommaso M. L (2012), Book review of “Women, Work, and Politics: The Political Economy of Gender Inequality”, by Torben Iversen and Frances Rosenbluth. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2010. 224 pp. ISBN-13: 9780300153101, Feminist Economics, vol 18, 3, pg 146-150. DOI:10.1080/13545701.2012.717176

Di Tommaso M.L., Saether E.M., Strøm S. (2009). “Nurses Wanted. Is the job too harsh or is the wage too low?” Journal of Health Economics, vol. 28, pp 748-757.

Di Tommaso M.L., Shima I., Strøm S. Bettio F. (2009) “As bad as it gets. Well-being deprivation of sexually exploited trafficked women.” European Journal of Political Economy, vol. 25, pp. 143-162.

Della Giusta M., Di Tommaso M.L., Strøm S. (2009) “Who’s Watching? The market for Prostitution Services.” Journal of Population Economics, Vol. 22, 2, pp. 501-516.

Della Giusta, M., Di Tommaso M.L., Shima I., Strøm S. (2009) “What money buys: clients of street sex workers in the US” (with Della Giusta, Shima, Strøm), Applied Economics, vol.41,18, pp.2261-2277.

Di Tommaso M.L., Raiser M., Weeks M. (2007) “Home Grown or Imported? Initial Conditions, External Anchors, and the Determinants of Institutional Reform in the Transition Economies”, Economic Journal, vol 117, pp 858-881.
Di Tommaso M.L. (2007) “Children capabilities: a structural equation model for India.” Journal of Socio Economics, vol 36, pp 436-450.
Di Tommaso M.L. (2007) Book Review of “Sex Work, Mobility and Health in Europe”, (eds Sophie Day and Helen Ward), Feminist Economics 2007, vol 13, pp. 123-127.

Colombino U. Di Tommaso M.L. (2000) “Identifying Demand and Supply of Part-time Using Personnel Data. An Application to Italy”, Labour, vol. 14, 4, pp 609-622.

Di Tommaso M.L. (1999) “A trivariate model of participation, fertility and wages: the Italian case”, Cambridge Journal of Economics, vol 23, 5, pp 623-640.

Di Tommaso M.L. (1997) “Nora Federici e l’economia della famiglia”(with D. Del Boca) Storia del pensiero economico, vol. 33-34, pp 183-191.

Colombino U. Di Tommaso M.L. (1996) “Is the Preference for Children so Low or is the Price of Time so High? A simultaneous model of fertility and participation in Italy with cohort effects”, (with U.Colombino) Labour, vol.10, 3, pp 475-493.

Di Tommaso M.L. (1994) “Effetto della riduzione dell’orario standard di lavoro sull’occupazione” (Effect of the reduction of the working time length on occupation), Economia e Lavoro, 3-4, pp 235-240.

2 Books

Della Giusta M. Di Tommaso M.L. Strøm S. (2008) Sex markets: a denied industry, Routledge, London.

3 Contributions to books/ International reports

Agnoletto M., M.L. Di Tommaso, S. Mendolia (2024). COVID-19 and Changes in the Household: Fertility, Divorce and Domestic Violence. In Klaus Zimmermann (ed) Handbook of Labor, Human Resources and Population Economics, forthcoming. Springer Nature.

Contini D., Della Giusta M., Di Tommaso M.L., Piazzalunga D. (2024). The Covid-19 Pandemic: Learning Loss and Educational Inequalities in Italy. In Kenneth A. Couch (ed) Handbook on Inequality and COVID-19, forthcoming, Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd.

Ferrara, F., Ferrari, G., Robutti, O., Contini, D. & Di Tommaso, M.L. (2021). When gender matters: A study of gender differences in mathematics. In Inprasitha, M., Changsri, N., Boonsena, N. (Eds.), Proceedings of the 44th Conference of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education (Vol. 2, pp. 255-263). Khon Kaen, Thailand: PME

Villosio C., Di Tommaso M.L, Grinza E., Rossi M.C., Piazzalunga D., Mantouvalou K.and Caisl J. (2017). Economic benefits of gender equality in the European Union. Literature review: existing evidence and methodological approaches. European Institute for Gender Equality (EIGE) ISBN 978-92-9493-197-9 doi:10.2839/3096

Della Giusta M. Di Tommaso M.L. (2016) Affluent and Devout. Men’s paying for sex in the United Kingdom. Chapter 6 in Cunningham S. and Shah M. (2016), Handbook of the Economics of Prostitution, Oxford University Press.

Addabbo T. Di Tommaso M.L. Maccagnan A. (2012) Capacità cognitive e sviluppo umano, in L. Tronti (ed) “Il capitale umano. Definizione e misurazioni ”, Padova, Cedam-Kluwer, ISBN: 978-88-13-33528-1.

Di Tommaso M.L. (2012) Un approccio economico al mercato del sesso a pagamento. In C. Cipolla, E. Ruspini (eds) “Prostituzioni visibili e invisibili”, pg 333-346, Milano, Franco Angeli.

Addabbo T. Di Tommaso M.L.(2011)‘Children's Capabilities and Family Characteristics in Italy: Measuring Imagination and Play', pp 222-242 in Jerome Ballet, Mario Biggeri and Flavio Comim (ed), Children and the Capability Approach, New York, Palgrave Macmillan, ISBN: 978-0-230-28481-4.

Di Tommaso M.L (2006) Children capabilities: conceptualisation and measurement issues. Chapter in Reboud, V., "Amartya Sen : un économiste du développement?", Notes et Documents, Agence Française de Développement, Paris.

Di Tommaso M.L, Krkoska, Raiser M., Structural Change in Transition, chapter 4 in the Transition Report 1999 –Ten years of transition, European Bank for Reconstructing and Development, London, UK, October 1999.

4 Working papers

Contini, D., Di Tommaso, M.L., Muratori, C., Piazzalunga, D., Schiavon, S. (2023), A Lost Generation? Impact of COVID-19 on High School Students’ Achievements, IZA DP No. 16008

Dalit Contini, Maria Laura Di Tommaso, Anna Maccagnan and Silvia Mendolia, (2023) Gender Differences in High School Choices: Do Math and Language Skills Play a Role?" IZA Discussion Paper No. 16584; Working Paper Dipartimento di Economia e Statistica Cognetti de Martiis, no. 01/2023.

Courses

• Violenza maschile contro le donne: dal riconoscimento alla risposta operativa (GIU1003)
  Corsi di Studio del Dipartimento di Giurisprudenza

Research topics

Current research projects include:

Tackling Inequalities in Educational Outcomes: Experimental Evidence from Italian Primary Schools. Funded by Italian Ministry of University (PRIN 2022). Coordinator of Torino unit.

For a description of the project click here

Human capital and education policies. Spoke 3 of the project: Growing Resilient, Inclusive and Sustainable (GRINS). Funded by PNRR (National Recovery and Resilience Plan). PI for Torino unit.

The effect of COVID-19 pandemic on children well-being in Piedmont. Funded by Cassa di Risparmio di Torino Foundation. 

Research groups

• Economia del lavoro, della famiglia, di genere

Research projects

• HORIZON2020 IN-HABIT INclusive Health And wellBeing In small and medium size ciTies
• Affrontare il divario di genere in matematica in Piemonte
• How to measure and value freedom of choice? Operationilizing Sen's capability approach with a gender perspective

Activities in agenda

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Academic bodies

• Consiglio di Dipartimento

Office hours

Il ricevimento si svolge a distanza o in presenza (stanza 3D117 del CLE) su appuntamento il giovedì dalle 15 alle 16. Inviate una mail per prendere appuntamento.
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Procedura per richiesta tesi di laurea.
Finestre per inviare le richieste: 15-30 settembre;15-30 gennaio; 1-15 aprile.

Inviare una mail con nome cognome, corso di laurea, anno di corso, possibile data tesi. Inoltre si richiede di inviare un file word che contenga
1) Titolo proposto per la tesi
2) Descrizione della domanda di ricerca e la metodologia che si vuole adottare nella tesi (circa 300 parole senza bibliografia)
3) bibliografia scritta nel formato harvard (https://www.citethisforme.com/harvard-referencing). Deve contenere almeno 10 riferimenti bibliografici

Non aspettatevi una risposta da parte mia prima della chiusura della finestra. Infatti poichè ho molte richieste, valuterò sulla base del dettaglio e della qualità della proposta e sulla base della mia capacità a seguire lo specifico argomento, quali tesi potrò seguire.
Pertanto vi invito a scrivere con attenzione sia la vostra proposta che la bibliografia scientifica.