My research lies at the intersection of public economics, health and social care, and applied microeconomics.  they include:

• the economics of ageing, pension and long-term care; 

• the financing, organisation and delivery of health and social care services; 

• policy evaluation; poverty, inequality and redistribution; 

• and static, dynamic and spatial microsimulation. 

A substantial part of my research focuses on the design, financing and evaluation of long-term care policies and on the functioning of care markets.
I have published across economics, health economics, health policy and social policy, including in European Economic Review, Health Economics, Social Science & Medicine, European Journal of Health Economics, Health Policy, Review of Income and Wealth, Journal of the Royal Statistical Society: Series A, Journal of Pension Economics and Finance, Fiscal Studies, Economics & Human Biology, Addiction, and BMC Medicine. 

My research is strongly policy-oriented and has informed policy discussion and engagement in the UK, Italy and internationally.
I have provided research evidence to UK Parliamentary Select Committees and contributed to work informing the Commission on Funding of Care and Support (the Dilnot Commission). My research has also involved engagement and collaboration with the UK Department of Health and Social Care and for Work and Pensions, the House of Lords and charitable foundations), the Chinese Ministry of Finance, the European Commission, and the Italian Social Security Institute (INPS), the Ministry of Social Security,  the Italian Ministry of Economy and Finance and the Parliamentary Budget Office (UPB).

 
I am currently involved in major research programmes on the economics and organisation of health and social care, including the NIHR Economics of Health and Social Care Systems Policy Research Unit (ESHCRU3)  (management team & researcher) and other NIHR Research Unit. I was the Deputy Director of the “Economic Sustainability Research” of the NIHR ARC-GM theme.  I am a member of the Social Care Working Group (SCWG), a sub-group of the Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (SAGE) the latter being chaired by the Government Chief Scientific Adviser (GCSA). 

I also lead and contribute to projects on long-term care financing, care markets, assistive technologies, and the development of microsimulation tools for analysing public policies.
My research has been supported by, among others, the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR), the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC), the European Commission, the Nuffield Foundation, the UK Department of Health and Social Care, Regione Emilia-Romagna, Fondazione di Modena and several local, national, international bodies and NGOs.

I hold a MSc in Applied Economics and Data Analysis and a PhD from the Department of Economics at the U. of Essex (UK) and the Institute for Social and Economic Research (ISER). I also obtained a PhD in Economics at U. of Bologna.

For information on me, please visit  my UNIMORE webpage.