Research

Some Published and Forthcoming Papers 

“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.

“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.

“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.

“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 .

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

“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.

“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.

“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, 100964, 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), Social Science and Medicine: 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.

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

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

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

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

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

“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, 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.

“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.