Ricardo Ciacci Strina @riccardociacci.bsky.social Profile picture
Applied Micro-econometrician. Associate Professor of Economics: @UComillas Fields: Gender, Crime, Development. @UC3M , @Columbia & @EUI_EU alumnus #HeForShe
Jul 21, 2025 7 tweets 3 min read
@I4Replication My article for @I4R is now online! In it, I apply the methodology from Adema, Folke & Rickne (2025a) to Ciacci’s (2025) sample. My results are statistically indistinguishable from Ciacci (2024) and robust to multiple checks, including:econstor.eu/bitstream/1041… @I4Replication @i4r 1) Using a first-order polynomial

2) Removing seasonal fixed effects

3) Removing police as a control variable 2/N Image
Jul 14, 2022 9 tweets 4 min read
I’d like to present the newest version of my paper📜 on the effect of criminalizing the purchase of prostitution on rape. Recently, several countries, such as Sweden, Norway, Canada, Israel or France;
criminalized the purchase of prostitution without empirical evidence on (1/N) its impacts. This paper is one of the first to provide causal evidence on the effects of this policy.

In the previous version of the article I used IV, fuzzy DID and an event study leveraging variation on fines for sex purchase to estimate the effect of the ban on rape. (2/N)