Davide Dragone

@davidedragone.bsky.social

770 followers 1K following 140 posts

Professor of Economics, Univ. Bologna
Research on risky health behaviors, addiction, obesity, sex work
https://sites.google.com/site/davidedragone/

Videos

Economics 61%

Business 12%

Posts Replies Media Videos

Reposted by Aaron Sojourner, Davide Dragone

Erdal Tekin @erdaltekin.bsky.social · 8d

Let's submit to @au-spa.bsky.social's 15th Workshop on the Economics of Risky Behavior, to be held July 8–9, 2026 in Cagliari, Italy 🇮🇹
Deadline: March 6, 2026.
🎤 Keynote: Paolo Pinotti
👥 Organizers: Erdal Tekin, Claudio Deiana, Ludovica Giua, & Marco Nieddu.
Link: www.american.edu/spa/risky-be...

Reposted by Davide Dragone, Enrique Fatás

Fabio Sabatini @fabiosabatini.bsky.social · 9d

🧵 For the past two days, we’ve been watching something obscene unfold.
The Trump administration is portraying the victim of ICE violence as a terrorist and the killer as a hero shielded by absolute immunity.
On one point, however, they tell the truth.

1/7
civiceconomist.substack.com/p/ice-trumps...

ICE, Trump’s private army

How a federal agency became a paramilitary force, built a parallel prison system, and now answers to the president alone—while Washington lectures Europe on democracy

civiceconomist.substack.com

Davide Dragone @davidedragone.bsky.social · 10d

@healtheconomics @econsky @healtheconall.bsky.social @pietrobiroli.bsky.social @mardelgiu.bsky.social

Reposted by Erdal Tekin, Mirco Tonin, Marina Della Giusta

Davide Dragone @davidedragone.bsky.social · 10d

The program for the Health Economics and Risky Behaviors (HERB 2026) workshop is out! See you in Bologna!

eventi.unibo.it/workshop-her...

HERB 2026 program: 📅 22 January 2026
– From Courtroom to Court of Public Opinion: Secondary Victimization and Intimate Partner Violence — Caterina Muratori (Autonomous University of Barcelona)
– From Awareness to Action: Help-Seeking and Femicides after Gender-Based Violence Campaigns in Italy — Margherita Agnoletto (University of Turin & Collegio Carlo Alberto)
– Rising Temperatures and Domestic Violence in Peru: Evidence and Mechanisms — Fiorella Parra-Mujica (Erasmus University Rotterdam)
– After the Draft: The Lasting Effects of Male Conscription on Well-Being — Chiara Notarangelo (Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies)
– Leader Identity and Cesarean Childbirths: Evidence from Random Allocations of Female Leaders in Indian Villages — Mujaheed Shaikh (Hertie School)
– Qualitative Insights on the Income–Health Behavior Gradient — Manuela Puente-Beccar (Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods)

📅 23 January 2026 — 📍 Department of Economics, University of Bologna
Session 3 (Chair: Ana Armendariz)
– Health After Birth: The Persistent Health Penalty of Becoming a Parent — Jonathan Rossi (Erasmus University Rotterdam)
– Precisely Zero: Migration’s Null Effect on Sex Crimes — Riccardo Ciacci (Universidad Pontificia Comillas)
– Do Drug Consumption Rooms Reduce Drug-Related Hospitalisations? Evidence from Switzerland — Ana Armendariz (University of St Gallen)
Session 4 (Chair: Flavia Cavallini)
– Empowering Parents in the Digital Age — Margaux Suteau (London School of Economics and Political Science)
– Children by Choice, Not Chance: Family Planning Associations and Fertility in Britain — Sara Tozzi (University of Bologna)
– Expectation Shocks and Fertility: The Case of Brexit — Flavia Cavallini (Università della Svizzera italiana)

Reposted by Davide Dragone

Ricardo Ciacci Strina @riccardociacci.bsky.social · Dec 9

As of this writing, the retraction stands with its factually inaccurate notice. I continue
to seek its withdrawal and replacement with a corrective notice that accurately reflects
both the scientific committee’s conclusions and the actual content of the March 2025 publications.

Reposted by Davide Dragone

Fabio Sabatini @fabiosabatini.bsky.social · Dec 8

🧵L’Europa non sta censurando nessuno. Sta provando a impedire che la manipolazione digitale inquini il dibattito democratico.
Da quando la Commissione Europea ha multato X, gli oligarchi russi e americani gridano alla censura.
Ma la realtà è completamente diversa. 👇

1/18

Reposted by Davide Dragone

Fabio Sabatini @fabiosabatini.bsky.social · Nov 27

🧵 Se non riuscite a orientarvi nella telenovela in cui si è trasformata la politica estera mondiale, qui c'è tutto ciò che bisogna sapere sulle telefonate del "falso mediatore" americano in preparazione del falso "piano di pace" di Putin e Trump: 👇

1/12

Davide Dragone @davidedragone.bsky.social · Nov 24

Deadline expires soon!
Apply and share!
@healtheconall.bsky.social @eshconference.bsky.social #healtheconomics #econsky

Davide Dragone @davidedragone.bsky.social · Oct 21

𝐂𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐏𝐚𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐬 – 𝐈𝐭𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐚𝐧 𝐖𝐨𝐫𝐤𝐬𝐡𝐨𝐩 𝐨𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐇𝐞𝐚𝐥𝐭𝐡 𝐄𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐨𝐦𝐢𝐜𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐑𝐢𝐬𝐤𝐲 𝐁𝐞𝐡𝐚𝐯𝐢𝐨𝐫𝐬 (HERB 2026)

📍 𝐁𝐨𝐥𝐨𝐠𝐧𝐚, January 22–23, 2026

🗓 𝐃𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐞: November 30, 2025

🔗 𝐀𝐩𝐩𝐥𝐲 here: eventi.unibo.it/workshop-herb

#healtheconomics @healtheconomics.bsky.social #econsky

Health Economics of Risky Health Behavior (HERB)

eventi.unibo.it

Davide Dragone @davidedragone.bsky.social · Nov 14

Save the date! Fantastic VERB-IHEA seminar, Dec. 1, Sebastian Tello @sebastiantt.bsky.social @healtheconall.bsky.social #healtheconoics #econsky

Davide Dragone @davidedragone.bsky.social · Nov 3

In one hour!

Reposted by Catherine H. MacLean

Davide Dragone @davidedragone.bsky.social · Oct 30

Next VERB seminar. Add it to your calendar!
healtheconomics.org/event/do-vap...

#healtheconomics #econsky

Reposted by Stephen P. Jenkins, Jörg Oechssler, Kris Inwood , and 5 more Stephen P. Jenkins, Jörg Oechssler, Kris Inwood, Aaron Sojourner, Davide Dragone, Paul Goldsmith-Pinkham, Todd Pugatch, Georg Weizsäcker

Joshua Goodman @joshua-goodman.com · Oct 30

I'd love to help make BlueSky one of the places where young scholars introduce themselves and their work to the world.

If you're a PhD student whose work at least partially focuses on economics of education or education policy, reply to this thread and I'll highlight your work.

Reposted by John Mullahy, Davide Dragone, David Slusky

John Cawley @johncawley.bsky.social · Oct 29

Registration is open for the Fifth Ireland Masterclass in Health Economics, which will be held March 18-20, 2026 in Galway at @uniofgalway.bsky.social.

To register, email Ciaran O'Neill at [email protected]

More info here:
www.maxwell.syr.edu/research/cen...

Ireland Masterclass in Health Economics

www.maxwell.syr.edu

Davide Dragone @davidedragone.bsky.social · Oct 21

This workshop is friendly, informal, and collaborative. No fees, good food 😊

Preference will go to young presenters and full papers, but extended abstracts and senior researchers are also welcome.

Please share!

Davide Dragone @davidedragone.bsky.social · Oct 21

𝐇𝐄𝐑𝐁 brings together researchers studying the economics of health and risky behaviors, including gender violence, substance use, sex work, gambling, and LGBTQIA+ studies.

Reposted by John Mullahy, Valerie Mueller, Aaron Sojourner

Davide Dragone @davidedragone.bsky.social · Oct 21

Health Economics of Risky Health Behavior (HERB)

eventi.unibo.it

Davide Dragone @davidedragone.bsky.social · Oct 18

Congrats!! Well deserved!

Davide Dragone @davidedragone.bsky.social · Sep 23

Hedgehog of the day. Mints removed. Next, please!

Davide Dragone @davidedragone.bsky.social · Sep 4

@pierluigisacco.bsky.social

Davide Dragone @davidedragone.bsky.social · Aug 19

My daughter is so jealous!

Reposted by Davide Dragone

Aaron Sojourner @aaronsojourner.org · Aug 16

"Mussolini himself probably did not know what he was going to do—except stay in power. A parliamentary majority backed the fascist govt at the beginning, & most of the people thought fascism was a temporary interlude... thought Italy could later return to freedom"
www.historians.org/resource/the...

When the king called on Mussolini to form a government in October 1922, very few people in the world had any idea of what was meant by a totalitarian form of government. Mussolini himself probably did not know what he was going to do—except stay in power. A parliamentary majority backed the fascist government at the beginning, and most of the people thought fascism was a temporary interlude. They thought Italy could later return to freedom, and in the meantime fascism could take care of the crisis.

When Mussolini stepped into power, fascism had none of the superior-race, blood-and-soil trappings that came to Germany with Hitlerism. All the other elements of fascism were there, however: belief in violence, disbelief in legal processes, rabid nationalism, and so on. But the regime was not totalitarian in its first three years. Opposition parties were still legal, a strong opposition press operated under difficulties, and Mussolini kept talking about a return to normalcy

Reposted by Davide Dragone

Fabio Sabatini @fabiosabatini.bsky.social · Aug 11

🧵 It sounds like Mao’s China, but it’s the United States of America. From now on, research funding will be screened by government-appointed political commissioners, tasked with assessing whether projects advance the “president’s policy priorities” and align with “American values.”

#EconSky

1/9

Science under Big Brother’s thumb

Trump aims to turn public science into a tool of ideological propaganda. Stripping away scientific autonomy is a way to rewrite reality and entrench authoritarian rule

civiceconomist.substack.com

Reposted by Davide Dragone

Marina Della Giusta @mardelgiu.bsky.social · Aug 2

📢🧵 New paper! #EconTwitter
How does intensive social media use affect puberty timing and risky behaviours in adolescence?
📄 Riskonnected: Social Media, Puberty and Risky Behaviours in Adolescence with Margherita Agnoletto
and Silvia Mendolia #ChildDevelopment #DigitalWellbeing

Reposted by Davide Dragone

Ricardo Ciacci Strina @riccardociacci.bsky.social · Aug 1

Today, I encountered yet another instance where a scholar, influenced by a targeted harassment campaign on social media, formed a misrepresented view of my research after reading certain posts and working papers. How much longer will I have to endure this? 1/2

Reposted by Davide Dragone

Fabio Sabatini @fabiosabatini.bsky.social · Aug 1

La proposta di Meloni di istituire un fondo europeo per sussidiare le imprese esposte ai dazi è sbagliata e dannosa.
Ho provato a spiegarlo nel nuovo post sul mio blog - nonché nuovo episodio del mio podcast. 👇
fabiosabatini.substack.com/p/lautolesio...

L’autolesionismo di Trump e Meloni

Diversamente dalla narrazione dominante, l’UE non è stata umiliata e Trump ha solo danneggiato l'economia americana. Ma la proposta miope e autolesionista di Meloni rischia di ribaltare la situazione

fabiosabatini.substack.com

Davide Dragone @davidedragone.bsky.social · Jul 30

#econsky #healtheconomics @libertadgonzalez.bsky.social @mardelgiu.bsky.social

Reposted by Davide Dragone

Ricardo Ciacci Strina @riccardociacci.bsky.social · Jul 30

Me gustaría escribir en castellano un breve hilo sobre una vivencia negativa de los últimos meses. En marzo del 2024 publiqué un artículo que encontraba que la prohibición de la compra de la prostitución en Suecia aumentaba las violaciones de entre el 40 y el 60% 1/N

Reposted by Davide Dragone

Ricardo Ciacci Strina @riccardociacci.bsky.social · Jul 30

The academic community must stand against misinformation and protect researchers from being unjustly targeted. N/N #AcademicIntegrity #AcademicSky #EconSky

Reposted by Steven Pressman, Mirco Tonin, Davide Dragone

Mirco Tonin @mircotonin.bsky.social · Jul 21

JOB AD: @fbk-irvapp.bsky.social in #Trento (Italy) is looking for a #Researcher in Quantitative Public #Policy Evaluation to conduct (quasi)experimental evaluation research across different policy areas. 2Y+ contract - apply by 18/08 - Please, REPOST #EconSky LINK: jobs.fbk.eu/Annunci/Offe...

Reposted by Davide Dragone

Ricardo Ciacci Strina @riccardociacci.bsky.social · Jul 21

My article for
@i4replication.bsky.social
is now online! econstor.eu/bitstream/10... In it, I apply the methodology from Adema, Folke & Rickne (2025a) to Ciacci’s (2025) sample. Results are statistically indistinguishable from Ciacci (2024) and robust to multiple checks, including: 1/N

econstor.eu

Add to Home Screen

Light up
your news

Add to Home Screen

Light upyour news

Sign in to Lightnews

Sign up to start reading

Connect Bluesky

Connect with Bluesky

Light up
your news