Research interests

Family economics 

• • distribution of resources within the family through collective consumption models 

  • consequences of an uneven distribution of resources 

  • gender division of roles and time use allocation

  • impact of parents behaviour on children outcomes (long and short run) 

  • intergenerational transmission of gender roles 

Labour economics 

• • child development and education

  • discrete choice labour supply models within behavioural microsimulation models

  • impact of policy reform on the labour supply 

  • gender issues

Risky behaviours 

• • extensions of the Rational Addiction model

  • endogenous discounting

  • time inconsistency

  • consequences of excessive alcohol consumption to other family members

Public economics 

• • female poverty

  • ex-ante evaluation of public policies by micro-macro simulation techniques

  • optimal income taxation

  • tax evasion

  • social preferences for redistribution