My work in  Google Scholar  and  Ideas

Submitted and Working Papers

• • "Hospital Choice in the NHS" with V. Dardanoni and M. Laudicella.

  • "Hospital quality and costs: evidence from England" with M. Laudicella and P. Smith, submitted.

  • "Multivariate ordered logit: mvologit" with A. Forcina.

Publications

Journal Articles:

• "Healthcare utilisation by diabetic patients in Denmark: the role of primary care in reducing emergency visits" with M.Laudicella and V. Prete,  Vol 145( 6), 2024 in Health Policy

• "We made it to Germany … and now? Interdependent risks of vulnerability for refugees in a high-income country" with D. Mendola and A. Parroco,  forthcoming in Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies

• "Temporal analysis of hospital network data by hierarchical Bayesian p2 models with covariates" with F. Bartolucci and A. Mira,  forthcoming in Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series A: Statistics in Society

• "Age, morbidity, or something else? A residual approach using microdata to measure the impact of technological progress on health care expenditure" with M. Laudicella, D. Gyrd-Hansen, K. Olsen, Vol 31( 6), 2022 in Health Economics

• "The dynamic interdependence in the demand of primary and emergency secondary care: a hidden Markov approach" with M. Laudicella, Vol 37( 3), 2022 in Journal of Applied Econometrics

• "How important is culture to understand political protest?" with M. Marino and C. Welzel,  Vol.  148,  2021 in World Development

• "The role of Collective Action for the emergence and consolidation of Democracy" with  M. Marino  in Journal of Institutional Economics, Vol.  16(6),  2020.

• "The democratization process: an empirical appraisal of the role of political protest" with  S. Bavetta, M. Cellini, M. Marino  in European Journal of Political Economy, Vol. 63, 2020.

• "How consistent are perceptions of inequality?" with  S. Bavetta and M. Marino  in Journal of Economic Psycology Vol. 78, 2020.

• "Latent class models for multiple ordered categorical health data: Testing violation of the local independence assumption" with R. Thomas in Empirical Economics, Vol. 59(4), 2020.

• "Uncontrolled diabetes and health care utilisation: a bivariate Latent Markov model approach" with J. Gil and E. Zucchelli in Health Economics, Vol. 28(11), 2019.

• "The unobserved pattern of material hardship and health among older Americans" in Journal of Health Economics, Vol. 65(3), May 2019.

• "An empirical analysis of the determinants of perceived inequality" with  S. Bavetta and M. Marino  in Review of Income and Wealth, Vol. 65(2), 2019 .

• "Do reduced hospital mortality rates lead to increased utilization of inpatient emergency care? A population-based cohort study" with  M. Laudicella, S. Martin and P. Smith  in Health Services Research, Vol. 53(4), 2018.

• "What is the impact of rerouting a cancer diagnosis from emergency presentation to GP referral on resource use and survival? Evidence from a population-based study" with  M. Laudicella, B. Walsh, E. Burms and P. Smith  in BMC Cancer, Vol. 18(394) ,2018.

• "Testing For Asymmetric Information In Insurance Markets: A Multivariate Ordered Regression Approach" with  V. Dardanoni and A. Forcina in Journal of Risk and Insurance, Vol. 85(1), 2018.

• "Patterns of Poverty among elderly Americans: a Latent Class Markov Model" with  M. Marino  in Applied Economics Letters, Vol. 25(11), 2018. 

• "The welfare cost of unpriced heterogeneity in insurance markets" with  V. Dardanoni in the Rand Journal of Economics, Vol. 47(4), 2016.

• "Empirical definition of social types in the analysis of inequality of opportunity: a latent classes approach" with  J. G. Rodriguez and P. Rosa Dias in Social Choice & Welfare, Vol. 44(3), 2015.

• "Ex-ante and ex-post measurement of equality of opportunity in health: a normative decomposition" with V. Peragine and G. Pignataro in Health Economics, Vol. 23(2), 2014. 

• "Hospital readmission rates: signal of failure or success?" with M. Laudicella and P. Smith in Journal of Health Economics, Vol. 32(5), September 2013.

• "Does hospital competition harm equity? Evidence from the English National Health Service" with R. Cookson and M. Laudicella in Journal of Health Economics, Vol. 32(2), March 2013 --> Financial Times and The Guardian on this research.

• "Measuring change in health care equity using small area administrative data – evidence from the English NHS 2001-8" with R. Cookson and M. Laudicella  in Social Science Medicine, Vol. 75(8), October 2012 --> Financial Times and The Guardian on this research.

• "Incentive and selection effect of Medigap insurance on inpatient care" with V. Dardanoni in Journal of Health Economics, Vol. 31(3), May 2012.

• "Reporting heterogeneity in subjective health measures: an extended latent class approach" with V. Dardanoni in Applied Economics Letters, Vol. 19(12), 2012.

• "Effects of the Blair/Brown health reforms on socioeconomic equity in health care" with R. Cookson, M. Dusheiko and M. Laudicella in Journal of Health Services Research & Policy, Vol. 17(1), January 2012.

Book Chapters:

• • "Organizzazione aziendale dell'SSN e cenni di economia sanitaria" with V. Dardanoni, F. Vitale and M. Zagra in F. Vitale and M. Zagra  , "Igiene, Epidemiologia e Organizzazione Sanitaria", 2012, Elsevier Masson, ISBN: 9788821434242.

  • "Un approccio ordinale alla misurazione delle grandezze sociali: un'analisi empirica" with V. Dardanoni in V. Capursi and O. Giambalvo, "Al centro del margine. Standard di vita in un quartiere del centro storico di Palermo", 2006, Franco Angeli, ISBN: 9788846481856s.

  • "Uno sguardo alle famiglie" with R. Allegro, V. Dardanoni and O. Giambalvo in V. Capursi and O. Giambalvo. "Al centro del margine. Standard di vita in un quartiere del centro storico di Palermo",. 2006 Franco Angeli, ISBN: 9788846481856s.

Other Pubblications:

• • "A Constrained Dynamic Bivariate Poisson Stochastic Block Model for Hospital Network Data" with S. Pandolfi and F. Bartolucci in A. Pollice, & P. Mariani, (a cura di), Methodological and Applied Statistics and Demography II. BOOK OF SHORT PAPERS  SIS 2024. Italian Statistical Society Series on Advances in Statistics. (pp. 139-145). Springer, Cham., 2025, doi: 10.1007/978-3-031-64350-7_25.

  • "Invecchiamento, spesa sanitaria e distribuzione delle risorse" with V. Carrieri e F. Pignataro in il Mulino, Rivista trimestrale di cultura e di politica, 4/2024, pp. 102-109, il Mulino, 2024, doi: 10.1402/114960, 2012

  • "Socioeconomic determinants of persistence in poor subjective health" with D. Mendola in Proceedings of the XLVI Scientific Meeting of the Italian Statistical Society, CLEUP, 2012.

  • "Short-run and long-run persistence of bad health among elderly" with D. Mendola in M. Carpita, & L. Fabbris (a cura di), Statistics for Health and Well-being. BOOK OF SHORT PAPERS  (pp. 157-160). Padova : CLEUP Coop. Libraria Editrice.

Occasional Papers

• • "Identification of plasma biomarkers for discrimination between tuberculosis infection/disease and pulmonary non tuberculosis disease" with M. La Manna, V. Orlando, G. Sireci, P. Di Carlo, A. Cascio, F. Dieli and N. Caccamo in PLoSONE, Vol. 13(3), 2018.

  • "Efficacy and safety of gd T cell-based tumor immunotherapy: a meta-analysis" with S. Buccheri, G. Guggino, N. Caccamo and F. Dieli in Journal of Biological Regulators and Homeostatic Agents, Vol. 28(1), 2014.

  • "Characterization of human gd T lymphocytes infiltrating primary malignant melanomas" with A. Cordova, F. Toia, C. La Mendola, V. Orlando, S. Meraviglia, G. Rinaldi, M. Todaro, G. Cicero, L. Zichichi, N. Caccamo, G. Stassi, F. Dieli and F. Moschella  in PLoS ONE, Vol. 7(11), November 2012.