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Maria Grazia Pittau is professor of Economic Statistics at the Department of Statistical Sciences, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy.

In 2005-2007 she was research fellow at the Department of Statistics at Columbia University in New York City.

Previously, she was research fellow at the Italian National Statistical Office, visiting researcher at CEPS/INSTEAD (Center for Population, Poverty and Public Policy Studies) in Luxembourg, and at the Institute for Economic Analysis (IAE) in Barcelona (Spain).

She received her Ph.D. in Quantitative methods in social sciences and her B.A. in Statistics from the University of Rome. Her research interests center on the analysis of inequality, poverty, income mobility and polarization, mainly through the analysis and modelling of economic data.

She has explored the presence and implications of convergence clubs in the field of economic growth.

She has also worked on establishing mechanisms to track sources of missing data in large surveys.

She has made several contributions to life satisfaction measurement and to the analysis of individual preferences for redistribution through hierarchical models.

She is associate editor of the Journal of Economic Inequality.

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