About Giacomo Battiston
Giacomo is a Senior Research Officer at the ROCKWOOL Foundation in Berlin and a Research Associate of the Berlin School of Economics. His interests include political economy and labor economics, with a particular focus on the economics of migration. In his work, he applies structural econometric models to broad questions in political economy, and uses experimental methods to investigate the determinants of migration.
July 2026
Post-migration fertility preferences and social norms: Experimental evidence from forced migrants
Abdurrahman Bekir Aydemir, Giacomo Battiston, Riccardo Franceschin, Asli Ebru Sanlıtürk
March 2026
Why Artificial Intelligence is not a Salient Issue: Politicizing AI Reduces Mobilization Potential
Giacomo Battiston, Federico Boffa, Eugenio Levi, Alberto Parmigiani, Steven Stillman