Conchita D’Ambrosio

Curriculum Vitae


MAILING ADDRESS

Université du Luxembourg

Department of Behavioural and Cognitive Sciences

11, Porte des Sciences

L-4366 Esch-sur-Alzette

Luxembourg

conchita.dambrosio@uni.lu  

                                                 

CURRENT POSITION

Professor, Economics, FNR PEARL Chair, Université du Luxembourg, 2013 –


EDUCATION

Ph.D. Economics, New York University, 2000.

M.Phil. Economics, New York University, 1999.

M.A. Economics, New York University, 1997.

B.A. Economics, Università Bocconi, 1993.


RESEARCH

Publications

Articles in International Journals

“Take the Highway? Paved Roads and Well-Being in Africa”” (joint with A.E. Clark and E. Djemaï), World Development, forthcoming.

“Developmental Epigenomic Effects of Maternal Financial Problems” (joint with C. Holuka, G. Menta, J.C. Caro, C. Vögele and J.D. Turner), Development and Psychopathology, forthcoming.

“Relative Measures of Economic Insecurity” (joint with W. Bossert), Social Choice and Welfare, 62, 571-581, 2024.

“Teleworking and Life Satisfaction during COVID-19: The Importance of Family Structure” (joint with C. Senik, A.E. Clark, A. Lepinteur and C. Schröder), Journal of Population Economics, 37, 8, 2024.

“Gender Roles and Political Ideology in the Pandemic: Experimental Evidence from Western Europe” (joint with C. Lesschaeve, J. Glaurdić and C. Vögele), Frontiers in Political Science, 5, 1325138, 2024.

“Economic Insecurity and Political Preferences” (joint with W. Bossert, A. E. Clark and A. Lepinteur), Oxford Economic Papers, 75, 802-825, 2023.

“Marriage as Insurance: Job Protection and Job Insecurity in France” (joint with A.E. Clark, A. Lepinteur), Review of Economics of the Household, 21, 1157-1190, 2023.

“Decomposing the Changes in Poverty: Poverty Line and Distributional Effects” (joint with O. Aristondo, and C. Lasso de la Vega), Bulletin of Economic Research, 75, 1048-1063, 2023.

“Economic Insecurity and Health” (joint with A.E. Clark, and R. Yin), Hacienda Publica Espanola, 247, 69-90, 2023. 

“Life Satisfaction and the Human Development Index Across the World” (joint with A.E. Clark, A. Lepinteur and R. Yin), Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, 54, 269-282, 2023.

“Well-being and Working from Home during COVID-19” (joint with A.E. Clark, S. Greiff, S. Schifano and C. Vögele), Information Technology & People, 36, 1851-1869, 2023.

“Risk Aversion and COVID-19 Vaccine Hesitancy” (joint with A. Lepinteur, L. Borga, A.E. Clark, and C. Vögele), Health Economics, 32, 1659-1669, 2023.

“A Machine Learning Approach to Predict Self-Protecting Behaviors during the Early Wave of the COVID-19 Pandemic” (joint with A.D. Taye, L. Borga, S. Greiff and C. Vögele), Scientific Reports, 13, 6121, 2023.

“Children’s Internalizing Behavior Development Is Heterogeneously Associated with the Pace of Epigenetic Aging” (joint with J.C. Caro, C. Holuka, G. Menta, J.D. Turner and C. Vögele), Biological Psychology, 176, 108463, 2023.

“Maternal Genetic Risk for Depression and Child Human Capital” (joint with G. Menta, A. Lepinteur, A.E. Clark, and S. Ghislandi), Journal of Health Economics, 87, 102718, 2023.

“Gender, Loneliness and Happiness during COVID-19” (joint with A.E. Clark, A. Ferrer-I-Carbonell, A. Lepinteur, A. Piper and C. Schröder), Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics, 101, 101952, 2022.

“An Axiomatic Approach to the Measurement of Comparative Female Disadvantage” (joint with S.R. Chakravarty and N. Chattopadhyay), Social Indicators Research, 164, 747-772, 2022.

“The Impact of COVID-19 Lockdown Stringency on Loneliness in Five European Countries” (joint with J.C. Caro, A.E. Clark and C. Vögele), Social Science and Medicine, 314, 115492, 2022.

“Pace of Aging, Family Environment and Cognitive Skills in Children and Adolescents” (joint with G. Menta, G. Niccodemi and J.D. Turner), SSM: Population Health, 20, 101280, 2022.

“Characteristics Associated with Covid-19 Vaccine Hesitancy” (joint with L. Borga, A.E. Clark, and A. Lepinteur), Scientific Reports, 12, 12435, 2022.

“Income-related Health Inequality in Urban China (1991-2015): The Role of Homeownership and Housing Conditions” (joint with P. Nie, A.E. Clark, and L. Ding), Health & Place, 73,102743, 2022.

“Distance-Based Social Index Numbers: a Unifying Approach” (joint with W. Bossert and S. Weber), Journal of Mathematical Economics, 100, 102617, 2022.

“The Distributive Impact of the Luxembourg Tax-Benefit System: a More Comprehensive Measurement” (joint with Philippe Liegeois and Vincent Vergnat), Public Finance Review, 50, 436-483, 2022.

“Covid-19 Compliance Behaviors of Older People; The Role of Cognitive and Non-Cognitive Skills” (joint with A.E. Clark, I. Onur, and R. Zhu), Economics Letters, 210, 110158, 2022.

“The Fall in Income Inequality during COVID-19 in Four European Countries” (joint with A.E. Clark and A. Lepinteur), Journal of Economic Inequality, 19, 489-507, 2021.

“Social Protection and Multidimensional Poverty: Lessons from Ethiopia, India and Peru” (joint with L. Borga), World Development, 105634, 2021.

“Extreme Values, Means, and Inequality Measurement” (joint with W. Bossert and K. Kamaga), Review of Income and Wealth, 67, 564-590, 2021.

“Living in the Shadow of the Past: Financial Profiles and Well-Being” (joint with A.E. Clark and R. Zhu), Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 123, 910-939, 2021.

Income and Wealth Volatility: Evidence from Italy and the U.S. in the Past Two Decades” (joint with G. Menta and E.N. Wolff), Journal of Economic Inequality, 19, 293-313, 2021.

“Job Quality and Workplace Gender Diversity in Europe” (joint with A.E. Clark and R. Zhu), Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 183, 420-432, 2021.

“Prenatal Economic Shocks and Birth Outcomes in UK Cohort Data” (joint with A.E. Clark and N. Rohde), Economics and Human Biology, 41, 100964, 2021.

“Childhood Circumstances and Young Adulthood Outcomes: The Role of Mothers’ Financial Problems” (joint with A.E. Clark and M. Barazzetta), Health Economics, 30, 342-357, 2021.  

“The Measurement of Resilience” (joint with G.B. Asheim, W. Bossert and C. Vögele), Journal of Economic Theory, 189, 105104, 2020.

“Welfare-Based Income Insecurity in the US and Germany: Evidence from Harmonized Panel Data” (joint with N. Rohde, L. Osberg, K.K. Tang and P. Rao), Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 176, 226-243, 2020.

“Twin Research in the Post-Genomic Era: Dissecting the Pathophysiological Effects of Adversity and the Social Environment” (joint with J.D. Turner, C. Vögele and M. Diewald), International Journal of Molecular Sciences, 21, 3142, 2020.

“Money and Happiness: Income, Wealth and Subjective Well-being” (joint with A. Lepinteur and M. Jäntti), Social Indicators Research, 148, 47-66, 2020. 

“Losing Ground in the Income Hierarchy: Relative Deprivation Revisited” (joint with W. Bossert), Journal of Economic Inequality, 18, 1-12, 2020.

“Pro-Poorness Orderings” (joint with S.R. Chakravarty and N. Chattopadhyay), Review of Income and Wealth, 65, 785-803, 2019.

“Crime Victimization Over Time and Sleep Quality” (joint with A.E. Clark and R. Zhu), SSM: Population Health, 7, 100401, 2019.

“Living Conditions and Basic Needs: Evidence from African Countries” (joint with A.E. Clark), South African Journal of Economics, 87, 91-109, 2019. 

“A Head-count Measure of Rank Mobility and Its Directional Decomposition” (joint with W. Bossert and B. Can), Economica, 85, 793-807, 2018.

“Unfairness at Work: Well-Being and Quits” (joint with A.E. Clark and M. Barazzetta), Labour Economics, 51, 307-316, 2018.

“On a Family of Achievement and Shortfall Inequality Indices” (joint with S.R. Chakravarty and N. Chattopadhyay), Health Economics, 25, 1503-1513, 2016.

“Estimating the Mental Health Effects of Social Isolation” (joint with N. Rohde, K.K. Tang and P. Rao), Applied Research in Quality of Life, 11, 853-869, 2016.

“Adaptation to Poverty in Long-Run panel Data” (joint with A.E. Clark and S. Ghislandi), Review of Economics and Statistics, 98, 591-600, 2016.

“Measuring Rank Mobility with Variable Population Size” (joint with W. Bossert and B. Can), Social Choice and Welfare, 46, 917-931, 2016.

“Poverty Profiles and Well-Being: Panel Evidence from Germany” (joint with A.E. Clark and S. Ghislandi), Research on Economic Inequality, 23, 1-22, 2015.

“Measuring Social Polarization with Ordinal and Categorical Data” (joint with I. Permanyer), Journal of Public Economic Theory, 17, 311-327, 2015.

“The Distribution of Economic Insecurity: Italy and the USA over the Great Recession” (joint with N. Rohde), Review of Income and Wealth, 60, S33-S52, 2014.

“Richness Orderings” (joint with A. Bose and S.R. Chakravarty), Journal of Economic Inequality, 12, 5-22, 2014.

“Proximity-Sensitive Individual Deprivation Measures” (joint with W. Bossert), Economics Letters, 122, 125-128, 2014.

“An Axiomatic Approach to the Measurement of Poverty Reduction Failure” (joint with S.R. Chakravarty), Economic Modelling, 35, 874-880, 2013.

“Measuring Economic Insecurity” (joint with W. Bossert), International Economic Review, 54, 1017-1030, 2013.

“Multidimensional Poverty and Material Deprivation with Discrete Data” (joint with W. Bossert and S.R. Chakravarty), Review of Income and Wealth, 59, 29-43, 2013.

“Economic Insecurity and Individual Well-Being”, Keio Economic Studies, 48, 127-129, 2012.

“Poverty and Time” (joint with W. Bossert and S.R. Chakravarty), Journal of Economic Inequality, 10, 145-162, 2012.

“Individual Well-Being in a Dynamic Perspective” (joint with J.R. Frick), Economica, 79, 284-302, 2012.

“Deprivation, Social Exclusion and Subjective Well-Being” (joint with L. Bellani), Social Indicators Research, 104, 67-86, 2011.

“A Generalized Index of Fractionalization” (joint with W. Bossert and E. La Ferrara), Economica, 78, 723-750, 2011.

“Multidimensional Approaches to Poverty Measurement: An Empirical Analysis of Poverty in Belgium, France, Germany, Italy and Spain, based on the European Panel” (joint with J. Deutsch and J. Silber), Applied Economics, 43, 951-962, 2011.

“Polarization Orderings of Income Distributions” (joint with S.R. Chakravarty), Review of Income and Wealth, 56, 47-64, 2010.

“Generalized Gini Occupational Segregation Indices” (joint with S.R. Chakravarty and J. Silber), Research on Economic Inequality, 17, 71-95, 2009.

“Satisfaction with Life and Economic Well-Being: Evidence from Germany” (joint with J.R. Frick and M. Jäntti), Schmollers Jahrbuch, 129, 283-295, 2009.

“Deprivation in the São Paulo Districts: Evidence from 2000” (joint with R. Imanishi Rodrigues), World Development, 36, 1094-1112, 2008.

“Deprivation and Social Exclusion” (joint with W. Bossert and V. Peragine), Economica, 74, 777-803, 2007.

“Income Satisfaction and Relative Deprivation: An Empirical Link” (joint with J.R. Frick), Social Indicators Research, 81, 497-519, 2007.

“Dynamic Measures of Individual Deprivation” (joint with W. Bossert), Social Choice and Welfare, 28, 77-88, 2007.

“The Measurement of Social Exclusion” (joint with S.R. Chakravarty), Review of Income and Wealth, 52, 377-398, 2006.

“Reference Groups and Individual Deprivation” (joint with W. Bossert), Economics Letters, 90, 421-426, 2006.

"Income Distribution and Social Exclusion. Evidence from Italy and Spain in the 1990s" (joint with C. Gradin), Journal of Comparative Family Studies, 479-495, 2003.

“Social Distance between Workers: an Application to Italian Geographic Areas”, Economics of Transition, 9, 463-486, 2001.

“Household Characteristics and the Distribution of Income in Italy: an Application of Social Distance Measures”, Review of Income and Wealth, 47, 43-64, 2001.

 Articles in Italian Journals

“Region of Residence and Equality of Opportunity in Health: a Note on the Italian Case” (joint with Chiara Gigliarano), Rivista Italiana degli Economisti, 18, 65-86, 2013.

“Material Deprivation: an Application to Italian Regions” (joint with G. Giuliano and S. Tenaglia), Politica Economica, 15, 349-368, 2009.

"La disuguaglianza interregionale nell’Unione Europea" (joint with E. Croci Angelini and F. Farina), Diritto ed Economia dello Stato Sociale, 2, 31-57, 2001.

Chapters in Books

“Economic inequality and subjective wellbeing across the world” (joint with A.E. Clark), in Inequality in the Developing World, edited by C. Gradin, M. Leibbrandt and F. Tarp, Oxford University Press, 233-256, 2021. 

“Intertemporal material deprivation: a proposal and an application to EU countries” (joint with W. Bossert), in Deprivation, Inequality and Polarization: Essays in Honour of Satya Ranjan Chakravarty, edited by I. Dasgupta and M. Mitra, Springer, 15-36, 2019.

“An Overview of Intertemporal Measures of Individual Well-Being: Can They Explain Life Satisfaction Better?” in Advances in Happiness Research: A Comparative Perspective, edited by Toshiaki  Tachibanaki, Springer, 39-54, 2016.

“Health Insurance: Economic and Risk Aspects” (joint with S. Ghislandi) in International Encyclopedia of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Second Edition, edited by J.D. Wright, Elsevier, 640-645, 2015.

“Attitudes to Income Inequality: Experimental and Survey Evidence” (joint with A.E. Clark), in Handbook of Income Distribution, Volume 2A, edited by A.B. Atkinson and F. Bourguignon, North-Holland, 1147-1208, 2015.

“Deprivation and Social Exclusion in Europe” (joint with L. Bellani), in Encyclopedia of Quality of Life and Well-Being Research, edited by A.C. Michalos, Springer, 1575-1578, 2014.

“Material Deprivation over Time” (joint with W. Bossert, L. Ceriani and S.R. Chakravarty), in Poverty and Social Exclusion, edited by G. Betti and A. Lemmi, Routledge, 128-142, 2013.

“A Family of Unit Consistent Multidimensional Poverty Indices” (joint with S.R. Chakravarty), in Poverty and Social Exclusion Around the Mediterranean Sea, edited by F. Bresson and V. Berenger, Springer, 75-88, 2013.

“The Distribution of Wealth in the United States from 1983 to 2004: Inequality and Polarization” (joint with D. Fiaschi and E.N. Wolff), in Economics of Wealth in the 21st Century, edited by J.N. Gonzalez, Nova Science Publishers, 121-144, 2011.

“A Survey on Income Deprivation" in The Measurement of Individual Well-Being and Group Inequalities: Essays in Memory of Z.M. Berrebi, edited by J. Silber, Routledge, 11-23, 2010.

“Is Wealth Becoming More Polarized in the United States?” (joint with E.N. Wolff), in International Perspectives on Household Wealth, edited by E.N. Wolff, Elgar Publishing Ltd., 394-440, 2006.

“Reddito, distribuzione del” (joint with E.N. Wolff), in Enciclopedia del Novecento, Supplemento III, Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana Treccani, Roma, 396-408, 2004.

“Polarización intergeneracional y exclusión social de los niños en España e Italia” (joint with C. Gradin), in Desigualdad, redistribucion y bienestar: una aproximacion a partir de la microsimulacion, edited by J.M. Labeaga and M. Mercader-Prats, Instituto de Estudios Fiscales, Ministerio de Hacienda, Madrid, 97-129, 2001.

“Social Exclusion in EU Member-States: A Comparison of Two Alternative Approaches” (joint with F. Papadopoulos and P. Tsakloglou), in Rapporto sulla Distribuzione e Redistribuzione del Reddito in Europa, CNEL, Roma, 2002.

“La distribuzione dei salari in Italia: una applicazione empirica” in Rapporto sulle Retribuzioni e il Costo del Lavoro, CNEL, Roma, 2000.

Book Reviews

“An Economic Theory of Greed, Love, Groups, and Networks” by P. Frijters with G. Foster, in Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics, 52, 21-22, 2014.

“The EU and Social Inclusion. Facing the Challenges” by E. Marlier, A.B. Atkinson, B. Cantillon and B. Nolan, in Journal of Economic Inequality, 7, 329-331, 2009.

“Inequalities: Theory, Experiments and Applications” by Moyes, P., C. Seidl and A. Shorrocks (eds) (joint with P. Muliere), in Journal of Economics/Zeitschrift für Nationalökonomie, XI, 173-178, 2003.

“How Much Should the Government Spend? A review of V. Tanzi and L. Schuknecht Public Spending in the 20th Century, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, New York, Melbourne, Madrid, 2000 and Y-K. Ng Efficiency, Equality and Public Policy with a Case for Higher Public Spending, St. Martin’s Press, Inc., New York, 2000”, Review of Income and Wealth, 47, 399-404, 2001.


PROFESSIONAL SERVICE AND AFFILIATIONS

Head of the Institute for Health & Behaviour, University of Luxembourg, 2023 – .

Vice-president of the Scientific Council of the Fondazione Luigi Einaudi, 2023  – .

Member of the SOEP Survey Committee, 2022 –  .

Research Fellow, DIW Berlin, 2015 – .

Council member of the Society for the Study of Economic Inequality, 2005 –2007, 2015 – .

Luxembourg Income Study Senior Scholar, 2013 – .

Fellow, Dondena Centre on Social Dynamics and Public Policy, Università Bocconi, 2013 – .

Member of the Sustainability Coordination and Expertise Group of the University of Luxembourg, 2021 – 2023.

Member of the Italian Statistical Institute “Commissione scientifica inter-istituzionale sulla povertà assoluta”, 2021 –  2023.

Member of the Scientific Council of the Institute for Advanced Studies, University of Luxembourg, 2020 – 2022. 

Member of the Scientific Council of the Institut National de la Statistique et des Etudes Economiques du Grand-Duché de Luxembourg, 2019 – .  

Member of the Scientific Council of the Fondazione Luigi Einaudi, 2019  – 2023.

Research Professor, National Institute for Labour Studies, Flinders University, 2014 – 2015.

Associate, Wellbeing Programme, CEP, London School of Economics, 2014 – 2015.

External Advisory Board Member, InstEAD, University of Sheffield, 2014.

Visiting Professor, Faculty of Social Sciences, KU Leuven, 2013 – 2015.

Council Member of the Society for Economic Measurement, 2013 – 2014.

Member of the Italian Statistical Institute “Commissione scientifica per la misura del benessere”, 2011 –  2015.

Member of the Eurostat Task Force for the development of the 2013 EU-SILC ad hoc module on well-being, 2010.

Research Associate, OPHI research group at the Oxford Department of International Development, 2009 – 2011.

Member of the World Health Organization Scientific Resource Group (SRG) on Equity Analysis and Research, 2009 – 2011.

Permanent Visiting Fellow, Department of the German Socio-Economic Panel Study, DIW Berlin, 2002 – 2014.

Fellow, Econpubblica, Università Bocconi, 1998 – 2013.

Treasurer of the Society for the Study of Economic Inequality, 2007 – 2009.

IRISS at CEPS/INSTEAD External Panel Evaluation Member, 2001 – 2009.


OTHER ACADEMIC ACTIVITIES

Editorial Responsibilities

Editor, Review of Income and Wealth, 2008 – .

Member of the Editorial Board, International Review of Economics, 2016 – .

Member of the Editorial Board, Journal of Economic Inequality, 2013 – .

Editor of the Handbook of Research on Economic and Social Well-Being, Edward Elgar, 2018.

Member of the Editorial Advisory Board of Economic Studies in Inequality, Social Exclusion and Well-Being, Springer.

Member of the Editorial Board, Review of Income and Wealth, 2001 – 2008.

Guest Editor of Schmollers Jahrbuch, for proceedings of the SOEP 2004 conference, 2005.

Guest Editor of Journal of Economic Inequality, for the special issue “Income Distribution and Welfare”, 2005.

Refereeing for Journals

American Political Science Review, American Psychologist, Applied Economics, B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy, B.E. Journal of Theoretical Economics, BMC Public Health, Cambridge Elements, China Economic Review, Cogent Psychology, Cross-Cultural Research, Econometrica, Economia Politica, Economic Journal, Economic Systems, Economic Theory, Economica, Economics, Economics Bullettin, Economics Letters, Economics of Education Review,  Empirical Economics, European Economic Review, European Journal of Health Psychology, European Societies, European Union Politics, Hacienda Pública Española/Review of Public Economics, International Journal of Obesity, International Journal of Psychology, Humanities & Social Sciences Communications, International Review of Economics, Journal of Applied Econometrics, Journal of Comparative Economics, Journal of Development Economics, Journal of Development Studies, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, Journal of Economic Inequality, Journal of Economic Interaction and Coordination, Journal of the European Economic Association, Journal of Economic Growth, Journal of Economic Psychology, Journal of Economic Studies, Journal of European Social Policy, Journal of Evolutionary Economics, Journal of Human Development and Capabilities, Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, Journal of Population Economics, Journal of Public Economics, Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Journal of Social Policy, Labour, Metron, Nature Human Behaviour, Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, Oxford Development Studies, Oxford Economic Papers, Review of Development Economics, Review of Economics of the Household, Review of Economic Studies, Review of Income and Wealth, Rivista Italiana degli Economisti, Scientific Reports, Scottish Journal of Political Economy, Social Choice and Welfare, Social Indicators Research, Socio-Economic Review, Social Science & Medicine, World Development.

Refereeing for Publishers

Cambridge University Press, Oxford University Press, Routledge, Springer.

Refereeing for Grant-Awarding Agencies

Agence Nationale de la Recherche (France), Austrian Science Fund, Czech Science Foundation, European Research Council, FWO Research Foundation (Belgium), Fund for Scientific Research-FNRS (Belgium), Israel Science Foundation, Italian Ministry of Education and Research (Progetti di Ricerca di Interesse Nazionale), Luxembourg National Research Fund, National Science Foundation (USA), Nuffield Foundation (UK), Riksbankens Jubileumsfond (Sweden), Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, Swedish Research Council for Health, Swiss National Science Foundation, UK Research and Innovation, Working life and Welfare, WKN  Scientific Commission of Lower Saxony (Germany). 

Organization of Conferences and International Workshops

Gender and the Brain, Luxembourg, March 2024.

Gender and Conflict, Luxembourg, March 2023.

Gender and the Pandemic, Luxembourg, March 2022.

October Days for Sustainable Development, 7th Edition, Luxembourg, October 2021.

October Days for Sustainable Development, 6th Edition, Luxembourg, October 2020.

“The Distributional Impact of Social Protection”, International Workshop, Addis Ababa, February 2020.

October Days for Sustainable Development, 5th Edition, Luxembourg, October 2019.

October Days for Sustainable Development, 4th Edition, Luxembourg, October 2018.

October Days for Sustainable Development, 3rd Edition, Luxembourg, October 2017.

October Days for Sustainable Development, 2nd Edition, Luxembourg, October 2016.

October Days for Sustainable Development, 1st Edition, Luxembourg, October 2015. 

Sixth Meeting of the Society for the Study of Economic Inequality, Luxembourg, July 2015.

“La multidimensionalità della povertà: come la ricerca può supportare le politiche di inclusione”, Conference organized with ISFOL, Roma, May 2012.

IARIW-OECD Conference on Economic Insecurity: Measurement, Causes and Policy Implications, Paris, November 2011.

XXIV International Conference of Osservatorio Giordano Dell’Amore “Economic and Social Inequalities: Causes, Implications and Remedies”, Milano, October 2011.

“La qualità della vita dal PIL al BES”, Workshop organized with Osservatorio Giordano Dell’Amore and ISTAT, Milano, June 2011.

Second Meeting of the Society for the Study of Economic Inequality, Berlin, July 2007.

International Workshop: “Income Distribution and Welfare”, The Centennial, Università Bocconi, Milano, May, 2002.

Conference and Workshop Presentations since 2012

26th Applied Economics Meeting, Santander, June 2024

Ifo Conference on Understanding Socio-Economic Inequalities with Novel Data and Methods, Munich, February 2024 (Invited presentation).

2nd Gender and Economics Workshop, Luxembourg, June 2023 (Invited Presentation).

Statistical Learning, Sustainability and Impact Evaluation, International Conference organized by the Italian Statistical Society, Ancona, June 2023.

1st Welfare & Policy Conference: “Individual and collective responses to a troubled world”, Bordeaux, May 2023 (Invited Presentation).

International Association for Research in Income and Wealth, 37th General Conference, Luxembourg, August 2022.

Lecture Series of the Luxembourg Statistical Society, on-line, November 2021.

UNDP/HDRO-IIEP/GWU-OPHI/Oxford Seminar Series on Multidimensional Poverty Measurement, on-line, with Liyousew Borga, November 2021.

Les Journées de l'Économie, round table on Inégalités et Crise Sanitaire, on-line, November 2021 (Invited Presentation).

Società Italiana di Economia Pubblica, on-line, September 2021.

International Association for Research in Income and Wealth, 36th General Conference, on-line, August 2021.

37th Symposium on Money, Banking and Finance, Banque de France, Online, June 2021 (Invited Presentation).

OECD Centre on Well-being, Inclusion, Sustainability and Equal Opportunity (WISE), Webinar Series on COVID-19 and Inequality, April 2021 (Invited Presentation).

United Nations Virtual Expert Group Meeting "Navigating an Insecure Future", December 2020 (Invited Presentation).

INRAE Online Workshop on Heterogeneity and Inequalities, November 2020 (Invited Presentation).

The Distributional Impact of Social Protection, International Workshop, Addis Ababa University, February 2020.

Wittgenstein Centre Conference on “Demographic Aspects of Human Wellbeing“, Vienna, November 2019.

17th Annual Conference of the International Society for Quality-of-Life Studies (ISQOLS), Granada, September 2019.

Nordic Health Economic Study Group, Reykjavik, August 2019.

8th Meeting of the Society for the Study of Economic Inequality, Paris, July 2019.

13th International German Socio-Economic Panel User Conference, Berlin, July 2018.

49th Scientific meeting of the Italian Statistical Society, Palermo, June 2018.

Inequality and Inclusive Growth, 2017 RIEM-IDDPRP Workshop, Chengdu, September 2017 (Invited Presentation).

7th Meeting of the Society for the Study of Economic Inequality, New York, July 2017.

102nd Conference of the Directors General of the National Statistical Institutes, Vienna, September 2016 (Invited Presentation).

International Association for Research in Income and Wealth, 34rd General Conference, Dresden, August 2016.

16th International Meeting of the Association for Public Economic Theory, Rio de Janeiro, July 2016.

13th International Meeting of the Society for Social Choice and Welfare, Lund, July 2016.

6th Meeting of the Society for the Study of Economic Inequality, Luxembourg, July 2015.

Società Italiana di Economia Demografia e Statistica, 52nd Annual Meeting, Ancona, May 2015 (Invited Presentation).

International Association for Research in Income and Wealth, 33rd General Conference, Rotterdam, August 2014.

14th International Meeting of the Association for Public Economic Theory, Seattle, July 2014.

12th International Meeting of the Society for Social Choice and Welfare, Boston, July 2014.

Società Italiana di Economia Pubblica, Pavia, September 2013.

Bremen International Graduate School of Social Sciences Conference, Bremen, June 2014 (Invited Presentation).

30 Years of German SOEP: Anniversary Colloquium on Happiness Research, Berlin, September 2013 (Invited Presentation).

5th Meeting of the Society for the Study of Economic Inequality, Bari, July 2013.

Workshop on Economic Development and Inequality Issues, Griffith University, Brisbane, July 2013 (Invited Presentation).

International Association for Research in Income and Wealth, 32nd General Conference, Boston, August 2012.

Workshop on Equity and Poverty, Universidad Pablo de Olavide, Sevilla, April 2012 (Invited Presentation).

Political Economy of Institutions and Expectations, Keio Economic Society, Tokyo, January 2012 (Invited Presentation).

Recent Acquired Funding

CINVEN Foundation, New challenges in the transformation of the labour market, (December 2023 – December 2024), Co-PI

André Losch Fondation, The Demographic, Economic, Social and Psychological Impact of COVID-19, (January 2021 – November 2023 ), Co-PI 

CINVEN, CARGOLUX, Art2Cure, The Demographic, Economic, Social and Psychological Impact of COVID-19, (donations received in 2021 and 2020), Co-PI 

FNR-COVID-19 COME-HERE, COVID-19, MEntal HEalth, REsilience and self-Regulation (April 2020 – June 2020), Co-PI

UL Audacity Projects, Data Science and the Economics of Wellbeing, (September 2020 – ), Co-PI

FNR-CORE ALAC, Age Acceleration and the Life Course, (September 2020 – August 2023 ), PI

WorkYP – Working, Yet Poor, H2020-SC6-GOVERNANCE-2019, RIA, (November 2019 – December 2022), Coapplicant

FNR-CORE FESI, Financial Strain and Economic Instability, (September 2019 – August 2022), PI

Agence Française de Développement, The Distributional Impact of Social Protection: Short- and Longer-run Inequalities in Ethiopia, India and Peru, (December 2018 – May 2020 ), PI

FNR-AFR, Social Mobility in the Long Run, 1 PhD fellowship (October 2018 – September 2022 ), Supervisor

Chambre des Salariés Luxembourg, Gathering Expertise for a More Comprehensive View of Income Components in Luxembourg, (September 2018 – August 2020), Co-PI

FNR-PRIDE DRIVEN, 1 PhD fellowship (February 2019 – February 2023 ), Supervisor

FNR-PRIDE MINLAB, 1 PhD fellowship (September 2017 – October 2021 ), Supervisor

FNR-AFR, Income Distributions in a Dynamic Perspective, 1 PostDoc fellowship (March 2014 – February 2016), Advisor

FNR-PEARL project at the University of Luxembourg, Social Inequalities, (April 2013 – December 2018), Co-PI

Supervision of PhD Students since 2017

Gemma Riera, University of Luxembourg, 2019 –  2023.

Alemayehu Taye, University of Luxembourg, 2019 – 2023.

Sonia Schifano, University of Luxembourg, 2018 – 2022.

Niccolo’ Gentile, University of Luxembourg, 2018 – 2022.

Giorgia Menta, University of Luxembourg, 2017 – 2021.