Silvia Mendolia

Research Fellow

University of Torino

silvia.mendolia@unito.it

Research Interests

Silvia Mendolia is a Senior Research Fellow at the University of Turin. She holds a PhD in Economics from the University of New South Wales (UNSW) and a Master of Science (Distinction) in Economics from the University College of London (UCL).

Before joining the University of Turin in 2021, Silvia worked at the University of Wollongong, the University of Aberdeen (Department of Economics and Health Economics Research Unit), and as a part-time Research Associate at the Social Policy Research Centre (UNSW).

Silvia’s research interests are in the fields of: Health Economics, Economics of Education, Labour Economics, and Applied Microeconometrics. She joined IZA as Research Fellow in August 2014.

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IZA Publications

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16751

Working from Home and Job Satisfaction: The Role of Gender and Personality Traits

Piero Esposito, Silvia Mendolia, Sergio Scicchitano, Cristina Tealdi

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16584

Gender Differences in High School Choices: Do Math and Language Skills Play a Role?

Dalit Contini, Maria Laura Di Tommaso, Anna Maccagnan, Silvia Mendolia

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15562

Climate Change Salience, Economic Insecurity, and Support for Mitigation Policies

David W. Johnston, Rachel Knott, Silvia Mendolia

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15111

Societal Movement Restrictions and Adverse Mental Health Outcomes

Ho Fai Chan, Zhiming Cheng, Silvia Mendolia, Alfredo R. Paloyo, Massimiliano Tani, Damon Proulx, David Savage, Benno Torgler

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14665

Have Girls Been Left behind during the COVID-19 Pandemic? Gender Differences in Pandemic Effects on Children's Mental Wellbeing

Silvia Mendolia, Agne Suziedelyte, Anna Zhu

published in: Economics Letters, 2022, 214, 110458

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14214

Upside-Down Down-Under: Cold Temperatures Reduce Learning in Australia

David W. Johnston, Rachel Knott, Silvia Mendolia, Peter Siminski

published in: Economics of Education Review, 2021, 85, 102172

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13778

Determinants of the Community Mobility during the COVID-19 Epidemic: The Role of Government Regulations and Information

Silvia Mendolia, Olena Stavrunova, Oleg Yerokhin

published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2021, 184, 199-231

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13588

Working Parents, Financial Insecurity, and Child-Care: Mental Health in the Time of COVID-19

Massimiliano Tani, Zhiming Cheng, Silvia Mendolia, Alfredo R. Paloyo, David Savage

published in: Review of Economics of the Household, 2021, 19, 123 - 144 .

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12834

Social Media Extensive Use and Emotional and Behavioural Outcomes in Adolescence: Evidence from British Longitudinal Data

Paul McNamee, Silvia Mendolia, Oleg Yerokhin

published in: Economics and Human Biology, 2021, 41, 100992

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12241

The Causal Effects of Adolescent School Bullying Victimisation on Later Life Outcomes

Emma Gorman, Colm P. Harmon, Silvia Mendolia, Anita Staneva, Ian Walker

published as 'Adolescent School Bullying Victimization and Later Life Outcomes' in: Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 2021, 83 (4), 1048 - 1076

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11843

The Gender Gap in Attitudes and Test Scores: A New Construct of the Mathematical Capability

Maria Laura Di Tommaso, Anna Maccagnan, Silvia Mendolia

published as 'Going Beyond Test Scores: The Gender Gap in Italian Children's Mathematical Capability' in: Feminist Economics, 2021, 27 (3), 161-187

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11566

The Effect of Religiosity on Adolescent Risky Behaviors

Silvia Mendolia, Alfredo R. Paloyo, Ian Walker

published in as 'Intrinsic Religiosity, Personality Traits, and Adolescent Risky Behaviors' in: B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy, 2019, 19 (3), 1-16

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11431

The Transmission of Mental Health within Households: Does One Partner's Mental Health Influence the Other Partner's Life Satisfaction?

Silvia Mendolia, Paul McNamee, Oleg Yerokhin

published as 'The transmission of partner mental health to individual life satisfaction: Estimates from a longitudinal household survey' in: Scottish Journal of Political Economy, 2021, 68 (4), 494-516

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11020

Direct Measures of Intergenerational Income Mobility for Australia

Chelsea Murray, Robert Clark, Silvia Mendolia, Peter Siminski

published in: Economic Record, 2018, 94 (307), 445-68

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10651

The Impact of Parental Health on Children's Schooling and Labour Force Participation: Evidence from Vietnam

Silvia Mendolia, Thi Nguyen, Oleg Yerokhin

published as 'The impact of parental illness on children’s schooling and labour force participation: evidence from Vietnam' in: Review of Economics of the Household, 2019, 17, 469 - 492

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10053

The Gender Gap in Mathematics Achievement: Evidence from Italian Data

Maria Laura Di Tommaso, Silvia Mendolia, Dalit Contini

published in Economics of Education Review, 2017, 58, 32-42.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9917

Does Family Background Affect Earnings through Education? A Generalised Approach to Mediation Analysis

Silvia Mendolia, Peter Siminski

published in Economics of Education Review 59 (2017), 1-12

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9795

Heterogeneous Effects of High School Peers on Educational Outcomes

Silvia Mendolia, Alfredo R. Paloyo, Ian Walker

published in: Oxford Economic Papers, 2018, 70 (3), 613 - 634