PUBLICATION

Publications 

1. Mixture models and poverty measurement, (with G. Anderson and R. Zelli), in Jacques Silber (Edited by) Research Handbook on Measuring Poverty and Deprivation, Chapter 16, 171--179,  Edward Elgar Publishing, 2023.

2. Anchoring measurement of the middle-income class to subjective evaluation (with R. Zelli). The Review of Income and Wealth,  Vol. 69, 1, 60--75, 2023.

3.  Non-monetary Dimensions of Poverty in the Kyrgyz Republic (with Saida Ismailakhunova, and Roberto Zelli), Poverty Assessment Background Note, The World Bank, June 2022.

4.  Poverty and Vulnerability in the Kyrgyz Republic: Assessing Trends, Drivers, and Challenges' (with Saida Ismailakhunova and other autors), World Bank. 2022. Poverty and vulnerability in the Kyrgyz Republic: Assessing trends, drivers, and challenges. Washington, D.C.: World Bank Group.

5. Modeling Household Poverty Status Using Repeated Cross-sectional Surveys (with R. Zelli and S. Ismailakhunova), in S. Bandyopadhyay (Edited by) Research on Economic Inequality: Poverty, Inequality and Shocks, Vol 29, 57-76, Emerald Publishing Limited, 2022.

6. Editor's Introduction (with D. Joliffe and J. Gibson), The Review of Income and Wealth,  (2022), 68(S2):5261--5263, 2022.

7. Covariate-modulated rectangular latent Markov models with an unknown number of regime profiles (with A. Russo, A. Farcomeni, and R. Zelli), Statistical Modelling, first published online November 16, 2022,  doi: 10.1177/1471082X221127732.

8. On unit free assessment of the extent of multilateral distributional variation (with G. Anderson, O. Linton, Y. J. Whang and R. Zelli). The Econometrics Journal, vol. 24, issue 3, pp 502--518, 2021.

9. On multidimensional poverty rankings of binary attributes (with V. Peragine, E. Savaglio, and S. Vannucci). Journal of Public Economic Theory, Vol. 23, Issue 2, pp 199--401, 2021.

10. Measuring the Progress of Equality of Educational Opportunity in Absence of Cardinal Comparability, (with G. Anderson and R. Zelli), Metron,  vol. 78, 155--174, 2020.

11. Multidimensional nation wellbeing, more equal yet more polarized: an analysis of the progress of human development since 1990', (with G. Anderson, A. Farcomeni and  R. Zelli), Journal of Economic Development, vol. 44, issue 1, 1--22, 2019.

12. More unequal yet more alike, the changing patterns of family formation, generational mobility and household income inequality in China: a counter-factual analysis, (with Gordon Anderson and Tongtong Hao), The Journal of Economic Inequality, vol. 17, Issue 3, pp 359--378, 2019. 

13. A dynamic inhomogeneous latent state model for measuring material deprivation (with F. Dotto, A. Farcomeni and R. Zelli), Journal of the Royal Statistical Society - Series A,  vol 182, part 4, 2019.

14. Rectangular latent Markov models for time-specific clustering, with an analysis of the well being of nations', (with G. Anderson, A. Farcomeni, R. Zelli), Journal of the Royal Statistical Society - Series C, vol 182 , part 4, 2019.

15. Income Inequality, Cohesiveness and Commonality in the Euro Area: A Semi-parametric Boundary-free Analysis, (with G. Anderson, R. Zelli and and J. Thomas), Econometrics, Special Issue on Econometrics of Inequality, vol.6, issue 2, 15, 2018.

16. At the roots of Gini's transvariation: extracts from `Il concetto di transvariazione e le sue prime applicazioni (with R. Zelli), Metron, vol.75, issue 2, 127--140, 2017.

17. Assessing the convergence and the mobility of nations without artificially specified class boundaries, (with G. Anderson and R. Zelli), Journal of Economic Growth, vol.21, issue 3, 283--304, 2016.

18. A new approach to measuring and studying the characteristics of class membership: Examining poverty, inequality and polarization in urban China, (with G. Anderson, A. Farcomeni, R. Zelli), Journal of Econometrics, 191(2), 348--359, 2016.

19. Has the attitude of US citizens towards redistribution changed over time?, (with A. Farcomeni and R. Zelli), Economic Modelling, 52 (B), 714--724, 2016 .

20. Measuring Changes of the Russian Middle Class Between 1992 and 2008: A Non-Parametric Distributional Analysis, (with Zoya Nissanov), Empirical Economics, 2016, 50(2), 503--530.

21. Evidence of convergence clubs using mixture models, (with R. Zelli and R. Massari), Econometric Reviews, vol.35, issue 7, 1317--1342, 2016.

22. The ''Make-up'' of a regression coefficient: gender gaps in the European Labor Market, (with R. Zelli and S. Yitzhaki),  The Review of Income and Wealth, 2015, 61(3), 401--421.

23. Poverty status probability: a new approach to measuring poverty and the progress of the poor, (with G. Anderson and R. Zelli),  Journal of Economic Inequality, 12, 4, 2014.

24. Hierarchical modelling of disparities in preferences for redistribution, (with R. Massari and R. Zelli),  Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 75, 4, 2013.

25. Measures of poverty and inequality in the countries and regions of EU, (with T. Longford, R. Zelli and R. Massari),  Journal of Applied Statistics, 39, 7, 2012.

26. Non-sentinel lymph node metastases in breast cancer patients with a positive sentinel lymph node: validation of five nomograms and development of a new predictive model, (with Lombardi A., Maggi S., Lo Russo M., Scopinaro F., Di Stefano D., Tiberi S. and Amanti C.), Tumori, vol. 97, n.2, 2011.

27. Does regional cost-of-living reshuffle Italian income distribution, (with R. Massari and R. Zelli), Modern Economy, vol. 2, n.3, 2011.

28. Mixture Models, Convergence Clubs and Polarization, (with P. Johnson and R. Zelli), Review of Income and Wealth, vol. 56, n.1, 2010. 

29. L'Europa delle differenze: l'atteggiamento dei cittadini europei verso le politiche redistributive (with R. Massari and R. Zelli),  Politica Economica, vol.25, n.3, 2009.

30. Economic disparities and life satisfaction in European regions,  (with R. Zelli and A. Gelman),  Social Indicators Research, vol.96, n.2, 2010. 

31. A dwindling middle class? Italian evidence in the 2000's, (with R. Massari and R. Zelli),  Journal of Economic Inequality, vol.7, n.4, 2009.

32. A weakly informative default prior distribution for logistic and other regression models', (with A. Gelman, A. Jakulin and Y.S. Su), Annals of Applied Statistics, Vol. 2, n. 4, 2008.

33. Exploring patterns of income polarization using siZer, (with R. Zelli),  Journal of Quantitative Economics, 5, 101--111, 2007.

34. Stability of household income in European countries in the 1990, (with N. T. Longford), Computational Statistics & Data Analysis, 51, 1364--1383, 2006.

35. Metodi non parametrici nell'analisi della distribuzione del reddito: problemi empirici ed aspetti metodologici, (with P.L. Conti and R. Zelli), Rivista di Politica Economica, V-VI, 195--242, 2006.

36. Trends in Income Distribution in Italy: A Non-Parametric and a Semi-Parametric Analysis, (with R. Zelli), Journal of Income Distribution, 15, 90--118, 2006.

37. Empirical Evidence of Income Dynamic Across EU Regions (with R. Zelli), Journal of Applied Econometrics, 21, 605--628, 2006.

38. Fitting Regional Income Distributions in the European Union, Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, Vol. 67, n. 2, 135--161, 2005.

39. Testing for changes in the shape of income distribution: Italian evidence in the 1990s from kernel density estimates (with R. Zelli), Empirical Economics, Vol. 29, n. 2, 415--430, 2004.

40. Regional Empirics for Economic Disparities in Italy: 1951-2001 (with G.M. Giorgi and R. Zelli),  Estadistica, special issue on Income Distribution, Lorenz curve, Inequality and Poverty (Guest Editor Camilo Dagum), 55, 271--293, 2003.

41. Income distribution in Italy: a nonparametric analysis (with R. Zelli), Statistical Methods and Applications, 10, 1--3, 2001.

42. Fitting A Fuzzy Consensus Partition to a Set of Partitions to Analyse The Modern Economic Growth Rate Across Countries,  (with M. Vichi), Journal of Italian Statistical Society, 9, 183--198, 2000.

An optimal design for air pollution monitoring network, (with D. Romano, M. C. Cirillo and R. Coppi),  Environmetrics, Vol. 10, n. 3, 1999.

Metodi di analisi statistica dei dati di qualità dell'aria: rassegna critica e alcune applicazioni, Volume ISTAT, Metodi e Norme, Serie B, 30, 1997.

1. Book chapters (in italian)

   1. Caos calmo: l'evoluzione dei redditi familiari in Italia (con R. Massari e R. Zelli), in Cappellari L., Naticchioni P., Staffolani S. (a cura di),  L'Italia delle disuguaglianze, Carocci, Roma, 2009.

   2. Fattori di competitività e territorio: la dotazione infrastrutturale (con A. Rinaldi e R. Zelli), in G. Garofoli (a cura di),  Impresa e territorio, Il Mulino, Bologna, 2003.

   3. La distribuzione del reddito in Italia negli anni '90: un'analisi non parametrica (con R.Zelli), in G. Carbonaro (a cura di), Studi sulla povertà: problemi di misura e analisi comparative, Franco Angeli, Milano, 2002.

Research software

Arm: Data Analysis Using Regression and Multilevel/Hierarchical Models (written in collaboration with A. Gelman, YS Su, G. Hill, J. Kerman and T. Zheng). Functions in R for processing linear and generalized models: www.cran.rproject.org/src/contrib/Descriptions/arm.html

mi: Missing Data Imputation and Model Checking (written in collaboration with A. Gelman, G. Hill, M. Yajima and YS Su). Missing-data imputation and model checking:

www.cran.r-project.org/src/contrib/Descriptions/mi.html