D'ARRIGO Silvia
I)Personal information
 Email: sildarrigo@unime.it, sdarrigo@uniss.it
Current occupation: Post-doctoral research fellow at University of Sassari
II) Education within the Ph.D.
Dissertation title: How personality traits affect economic outcomes
Tutor: Professor Emanuele Millemaci (University of Messina)
Co-tutor: Professor Luca Corazzini (University Ca' Foscari)
Visiting position: March – June 2018
Visiting Student at Vienna University of Economics and Business (WU), Austria
Supervisor: Professor Rupert Sausgruber
Courses and workshops:
Participation in Courses
AY 2017-2018, Second semester, WU, Austria
Experimental Methods in Business and Economics, Instructor: Ben Greiner (WU)
AY 2016-2017, Second semester, Ph.D. in Economics, Management and Statistics, University of Messina, Italy
Applied Economic Growth, Instructor: Michele Battisti (University of Palermo)
Applied Microeconometrics, Instructor: Francesco Drago (University of Catania)
AY 2015-2016, Second semester, Ph.D. in Economics, Management and Statistics, University of Messina, Italy
Core courses in Mathematics, Econometrics, Microeconomics, Macroeconomics, and Strategic Management
Participation in Conferences (attendee)
May 17-18, 2018, WU - Institute for Market and Strategy, Austria
Workshop “Cooperation for Exploitation”, Organizers: Gigi Foster (UNSW Business School), Paul Frijters (LSE), Ben Greiner (WU)
September 21-22, 2017, University of Catania, Italy
XXIX Annual Conference of the Italian Society of Public Economics (SIEP 2017)
III)Other information
Research interests:
Behavioural Economics, Experimental Economics
Grants:
AY 2015-2018, Ph.D. Fellowship, University of Messina, Italy
January -May 2015, “Youth at Work - profile B” Job Grant Project, Municipality of Messina, Italy
AY 2013-2014, LLP/ERASMUS Placement Fellowship, University of Messina, Italy
Presentation of papers at Conferences:
October 20-23, 2020, Web Conference
61st Annual Conference of the Italian Economic Association
Paper presented: The Influence of Personality Traits on University Performance: Evidence from Italian Freshmen Students (with Luca Corazzini, Emanuele Millemaci and Pietro Navarra)
Publications:
The Influence of Personality Traits on University Performance: Evidence from Italian Freshmen Students, (with Luca Corazzini, Emanuele Millemaci and Pietro Navarra). University Ca' Foscari Working Paper, 19/WP/2020
How personality traits affect economic outcomes (Ph.D. dissertation, University of Messina, 2019)
Computer skills: Stata, z-Tree, NetLogo, LaTex, MS Office Package
Other activities and qualifications:
Finalist at the XIX edition of the Italian Society of Economists (SIE) Prize for the best qualifications: Ph.D. Thesis in Economics
AY 2016-2017, Specialist-didactic tutorship at the Department of Economics, University of Messina, Italy
January 20-24, 2016, Participant in the “FaMe: Food and Multiculturalism taste of Mediterranean” Project- Erasmus+ Key Action 1. Organizer: Bios Association, Messina, Italy
May-August 2014, LLP/ERASMUS Placement. Koperattiva Kummerċ Ġust (Fair Trade Cooperative), il Ħanut l-Arka, il-Belt Vallett, Malta