Research
Publications
Andreoli F., C. Kirsch, E. Peluso, V. Prete (2024) The subjective treatment effects of COVID-19 on child well-being: Evidence from Luxembourg, International Review of Economics, forthcoming.
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Andreoli F. and C. Zoli (2023) Robust dissimilarity comparisons with categorical outcomes, Social Choice and Welfare, 60:397–437
[download]Andreoli F., V. Prete and C. Zoli (2023) The measurement of segregation sensitive spatial income deprivation, Journal of Income Distribution, 32(3-4):159-182.
[download] [replication code]Andreoli F., A. Mertens, M. Mussini, V. Prete (2022) Understanding trends and drivers of urban poverty in American cities, Empirical Economics, 63:1663–1705
[download] [replication code]Andreoli F., E. Manzoni and M. Margotti (2022) Women at work: Gender quotas, municipal elections and local spending, European Journal of Political Economy, 75:102-175
[download] [replication code]Andreoli F., M. Mussini, V. Prete and C. Zoli (2021) Urban poverty : Measurement theory and evidence from American cities, The Journal of Economic Inequality, 19:599–642.
[download] [replication code]Andreoli F. and E. Peluso (2021) Inference for the neighborhood inequality index, Spatial Economic Analysis, 16(3):313-332.
[download] [online appendix] [replication code] [working paper]Andreoli F., A. Lefranc and V. Prete (2021). Rising educational attainment and opportunity equalization: Evidence from France., Research on Economic Inequality, 28:123-149.
[download] [replication code] [working paper]Andreoli F. and J. Olivera (2020) Preferences for redistribution and exposure to tax-benefit schemes in Europe, European Journal of Political Economy, 63:1-19.
[download] [replication code]Andreoli F. and C. Zoli (2020) From unidimensional to multidimensional inequality: A review, Metron, 78:5-42.
[download] [working paper] [thread] [comments by: B.C. Arnold - K Bosmans - K. Mosler - J.A. Weymark] [100 years of Metron]Andreoli F., T. Havnes and A. Lefranc (2019). Robust inequality of opportunity comparisons: Theory and application to early-childhood policy evaluation, The Review of Economics and Statistics, 101(2):355-369.
[download] [online appendix] [replication code] [working paper]Andreoli F. and A. Fusco (2019) Robust cross-country analysis of inequality of opportunity, Economics Letters, 182:86-89.
[download] [replication code]Andreoli F. and A. Fusco (2019) Application of the EU-SILC 2011 data module "intergenerational transmission of disadvantage" to robust analysis of inequality of opportunity, Data in Brief, 25:86-89.
[download] [replication code]Andreoli F., G. Casalone and D. Sonedda (2018). Public education provision, private schooling and inome redistribution, The Journal of Economic Inequality, 16(4):553-582.
[download] [online appendix] [replication code] [working paper]Olivera J., F. Andreoli, A. Leist and L. Chauvel (2018). Inequality in old age cognition across the world, Economics and Human Biology, 29:179-188.
[download] [online appendix] [replication code] [working paper] [SHARE news]Andreoli F. (2018) Robust inference for inverse stochastic dominance, Journal of Business & Economic Statistics, 36(1):146-159.
[download] [online appendix] [replication code] [working paper]Andreoli F. and A. Michelangeli (2015) Come stabilire le priorità delle politiche pubbliche in ambito urbano, EyesReg, Vol. 5, N. 4.
[download]Andreoli F. (2014) The Gini-Exposure index for measuring segregation in networks, Italian Economic Journal (The Journal of the Italian Economic Association) 19(1):129-167.
[download]Andreoli F. (2012) Multi-group segregation patterns and determinants: the case of immigrants in an Italian city, Research on Economic Inequality, 20(4):91-116.
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Book chapters
Andreoli F., M. Jantti, V. Prete and C. Zoli (2022) Disuguaglianze e mobilità sociale Ch. 8 in L. Greco, P. Pertile and C. Zoli (edts.) "Efficienza e sostenibilità dell'intervento pubblico", pp. 171-194, Bologna, Il Mulino.
Andreoli F, Michelangeli A. and Peluso E. (2018) Beni comuni, coesione sociale e disuguaglianze Ch. 4 in T. Della Massara and M. Beghini (edt.) La citta come bene comune, pp. 45-59, Naples, Edizioni Scientifiche Italiane.
Andreoli F. and M. Mussini (2018) Changes in poverty concentration in U.S. urban areas, in A. Abbruzzo, E. Brentari, M. Chiodi and D. Piacentino (edt.) Book of Short Papers SIS 2018, Pearson.
Andreoli F. and M. Mussini (2017) A spatial decomposition of the change in urban poverty concentration, in A. Petrucci and R. Verde (Edt.) Statistics and Data Science: New Challenges, New Generations, Proceedings of the Conference of the Italian Statistical Association, Firenze University Press.
Andreoli F. and Fusco A. (2017). The evolution of inequality of opportunity across Europe: Evidence from EU-SILC. Ch. 24 in A. Atkinson and E. Marlier (edt.) Income and Living Conditions in Europe, Publications Office of the European Union, pp. 435-448.
Andreoli F. and A. Michelangeli (2015) The hedonic value of quality of life, Ch. 2 in A. Michelangeli (edt.) Quality of Life in Cities, Routledge, pp. 44-65.
Working papers
Robust dissimilarity comparisons with ordinal outcomes
with Claudio Zoli.
The analysis of many economic phenomena requires partitioning societies into groups (for instance, along the lines of their gender, parental background or place of birth) and studying the extent at which these groups are distributed with different intensities across ordered realizations of a relevant outcome, such as income, health or cognitive score levels. When the groups are similarly distributed, their members could be seen as having equal chances to achieve any of the attainable outcomes. Otherwise, a form of dissimilarity prevails. We introduce a new, robust dissimilarity criterion for ordering multi-group distributions defined over ordinal outcomes, we characterize it in terms of basic transformations of the data regarded to as unambiguously preserving or reducing dissimilarity and provide an equivalent empirical test based on sequential dominance conditions. An application to Swedish data highlights the usefulness of the test to identify the intergenerational distributional consequences of a large education reform which took place in the 1960s.
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Evaluating allocations of opportunities
with Mathieu Faure, Nicolas Gravel and Tista Kundu. Submitted
We consider the problem of comparing allocations of opportunities from the standpoint of an ethical observer placed behind a veil of ignorance about her group belonging. We provide axiomatic arguments to compare allocations by means of an expected valuation of the expected utility of being in a group. The main theorem identifies the unique empirical criterion for comparing allocations - conic extension of Zonotope inclusion - that is agreed upon by all such ethical observers exhibiting aversion towards inequality of opportunities. We provide various interpretations of the criterion and illustrate its possible application by evaluating inequalities of educational opportunities among castes and gender in India
Urban poverty and the onset of the Coronavirus pandemic: Evidence from American cities
with Arnaud Mertens, Mauro Mussini, Vincenzo Prete. Submitted.
This paper investigates empirically whether urban poverty has affected the spread of COVID-19 at the early onset of the pandemic and whether mobility restrictions alleviated such influence. Using ACS data combined with data on mobility and confirmed cases and addressing bias arising from measurement error and unobserved confounders, we find that a standard deviation increase in urban poverty rises contagion by about 0.55-0.7 cases over 100,000 residents, approximately 1/4 of the incidence of COVID-19 registered on the median American city by the end of April 2020. Stay-at-home orders are found to be less effective in cities where poverty is less evenly distributed across neighborhoods
So close yet so unequal: Neighborhood inequality in American cities
with Eugenio Peluso. Submitted
This paper contributes to the literature on neighborhood inequality along both theoretical and empirical lines. We introduce a new neighborhood inequality index (NI) to measure income inequality within individual neighborhoods of varying sizes, and study its normative and statistical properties. The NI index is used in combination with a large database of income distributions defined on a fine-grained geographic scale to study neighborhood inequality in American cities over the last 35 years. Inequality within small individual neighborhoods is found to grow steadily over the period, albeit heterogeneously across cities. We investigate the intergenerational consequences of a rising NI index, exploiting labor market responses to minimum wage regulation as a source of identification. We find that lower neighborhood inequality during childhood makes income mobility for children with a disadvantaged parental background more likely.
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The subjective treatment effects of COVID-19 on children: Evidence from Luxembourg
with Claudine Kirsch, Eugenio Peluso, Vincenzo Prete. Submitted
Estimating the causal impact of COVID-19 on the multiple dimensions of child well-being requires quasi-random variation in exposure to it, which is unlikely to occur during a pandemic. Recent developments in econometrics have highlighted the relevance of subjective evaluations of treatment effects in the absence of randomization. This paper delivers new evidence, based on primary data collected in Luxembourg in Spring 2021 on a sample of children aged 12-16, about their subjective evaluations of the treatment effects of COVID-19. Effects are recovered through specific survey questions, asking children to compare actual outcomes with counterfactual ones, that they believe would have occurred in the absence of COVID-19. We present and discuss such estimates and study their heterogeneity along the line of demographics, family and housing resources and school experience.
Welfare measures to assess urban quality of life
with Alessandra Michelangeli. Submitted
The standard theory suggests that the urban quality of life should be measured by the economic value of the amenities offered in the city. These amenities are valued by their implicit marginal prices, obtained from housing market hedonic regressions. These prices approximate the representative consumer's willingness to pay for these amenities at the margin, but do not support welfare considerations. In this paper, we adjust the standard measure to determine the monetary value of any bundle, which might substantially differ from the bundle of the marginal quantities of amenities. Our methodology relies on a welfare measure that represents the representative consumer's willingness to give up (accept) to insure (forego) that a change in the current distribution of amenities across areas will take place, keeping the level of utility unchanged. We obtain a new measure, the value-adjusted quality of life index, that can be identified from parametric models of consumer preferences. We use this index to measure the quality of life in the city of Milan.
Work in progress
Robust dissimilarity comparisons with ordinal outcomes (with Claudio Zoli)
The interaction dimension of segregation: Measurement theory and empirical implications for the COVID-19 pandemic onset in American cities. (with Claudio Zoli).
Does comprehensive compulsory schooling equalize opportunities? Evidence from the Swedish compulsory schooling reform (with Markus Jantti and Arnaud Lefranc) [preliminary version]
Robust and consistent inference for sequential stochastic dominance (with Garry Barrett).
Equality of opportunity for skills acquisition (with Mathieu Faure, Nicolas Gravel and Edward Levavasseur)
Social Walls (with Eugenio Peluso)
Causal estimates of inequality of opportunity across Europe (with Alessio Fusco, Philippe Van Kerm and Iryna Kyzyma)
Early child-care and outcomes: The returns to Ecole Maternelle in France (with Arnaud Lefranc and Vincenzo Prete).
Public childcare expansion and the distribution of skills opportunities in Italy (with Ylenia Brilli and Vincenzo Prete)
Media
US cities have worse inequality than Mexico, with rich and poor living side by side, The Conversation, 06/01/2017.
Policy reports
Peluso E, F.S. Amétépé, F. Andreoli, A-S Genevois, G. Menta, I. Salagean, P. Van Kerm, B. Verheyden (2022) COVID-19 and Gender Equality in Luxembourg. Commissioned by Ministère de l'Égalité entre les femmes et les hommes (MEGA), Esch-Sur-Alzette, Luxembourg
Kirsch, C., Vaiouli P, Bebic-Crestany D., Andreoli, F., Peluso E., and Hauffels I. (2022). The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic in Luxembourg in 2021: Children aged 6-16 share their subjective well-being and experiences. First findings of the project COVID-Kids II. Esch-Alzette, Luxembourg: University of Luxembourg.
Kirsch, C., Peluso, E., Andreoli, F., & Engel de Abreu, P. (2021). Covid-Kids II. Survey for children aged 6 to 16 about their experiences during the Covid-19 pandemic. Esch-Alzette, Luxembourg: University of Luxembourg.
PhD dissertation
On dissimilarity and opportunity equalization (Qualified by CNU, section 05-Sciences Economiques, 2013)
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