Research

Research interests

Behavioural economics, health, environment, social responsibility.

Published papers

• Popuakis, S. and F. Salustri (2024). Asynchronous fieldwork in cross-country surveys: an application to physical activity. Empirical Economics.

• Quintieri, B., F. Salustri, G. Stamato and S. Mandile (2023). Qualità istituzionale e produttività delle imprese. Economia italiana, 2, 5-14.

• Beccari, G., L. Becchetti, G. Conzo, P. Conzo, D. De Santis, and F. Salustri (2023). The green lung. National parks and air quality in Italian municipalities. Sustainability, 15(10), 7802.

• Zhou, X., Y. Li, A. Correa, F. Salustri, and J. Skordis (2023). The need for voices from the grassroots in China’s public health system. The Lancet Regional Health–Western Pacific, 32.

• Corrado, G., L. Corrado, G. De Michele, and F. Salustri (2023). Are perceptions of corruption matching experience? Evidence from microdata. The British Journal of Criminology. 63(3), 687-708.

• Becchetti, L., G. Conzo, P. Conzo, and F. Salustri (2022). Excess mortality and protected areas during the COVID-19 pandemic: Evidence from Italian municipalities. Health Policy, 126(12), 1269-1276.

• Becchetti, L., F. Pisani, F. Salustri, and L. Semplici (2022). The frontier of Social Impact Finance in the public sector: Theory and two case studies. Annals of Public and Cooperative Economics, 93(4), 887-912.

• Beccari, G., L. Becchetti, G. Conzo, P. Conzo, D. De Santis, and F. Salustri (2022). Particulate matter and COVID-19 excess deaths: decomposing long-term exposure and short-term effects. Ecological Economics, 194, 107340.

• Conzo, P., B. Arpino, F. Salustri (2022). I'm a survivor, keep on surviving:  early-life exposure to conflict and subjective survival probabilities in adult life. Journal of Population Economics, 35, 471-517.

• Becchetti, L., G. Conzo, P. Conzo, and F. Salustri (2022). Understanding the heterogeneity of COVID-19 deaths and contagions:  the role of air pollution and lockdown decisions. Journal of Environmental Management, 305, 114316.

• Palmer, T., C. Waliaula, G. Shannon, F. Salustri, G. Grewal, W. Chelagat, H. Jennings, J. Skordis (2022). Understanding the lived experience of children with Type 1 diabetes in Kenya: daily routines and adaptation over time. Qualitative Health Research, 32(1), 145-158.

• Palmer, T., H. Jennings, F. Salustri, G. Shannon, G. Grewal, W. Chelagat, M. Sarker, N. Pelletier, H. Haghparast-Bidgoli, and J. Skordis (2022). Improving access to diabetes care for children: an evaluation of the Changing diabetes in children project in Kenya and Bangladesh. Pediatric Diabetes, 23(1), 19-32.

• Becchetti, L., P. Candio, and F. Salustri (2021). Vaccine uptake and constrained decision making: the case of Covid-19. Social Science and Medicine, 289, 114410.

• Allel, K., F. Salustri, H. Haghparast-Bidgoli, and A. Kiadaliri (2021). The contribution of public health policies and healthcare quality to gender gap and country differences in life expectancy in the UK. Population Health Metrics, 19, 40.

• Becchetti, L., M. Fiaschetti, and F. Salustri (2021). Let's buy sustainable! The impact of cash mobs on sustainable consumption: experimental results. Journal of Cleaner Production, 317, 128419.

• Becchetti, L., G. Beccari, G. Conzo, P. Conzo, D. De Santis, and F. Salustri (2021). Air quality and COVID-19 adverse outcomes: divergent views and experimental findings. Environmental Research, 193, 110556.

• Becchetti, L., F. Salustri, and P. Scaramozzino (2020). Nudging and environmental corporate responsibility: a natural experiment. Food Policy, 97, 101951.

• Ferrari, L. and F. Salustri (2020). The relationship between corruption and chronic diseases: evidence from Europeans aged 50 years and older. International Journal of Public Health, 65(3), 345-355.

• Conzo, P. and F. Salustri (2019). A war is forever: the long-run effects of early exposure to World War II on trust. European Economic Review, 120, 103313.

• Becchetti, L., F. Salustri, and P. Scaramozzino (2019). Making information on CSR scores salient: a randomised field experiment. Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 81(6), 1193-1213.

• Becchetti, L. and F. Salustri (2019). The vote with the wallet. Responsible consumerism as a multiplayer prisoner's dilemma. Sustainability, 11(4), 1109.

• Becchetti, L., V. Pelligra, and F. Salustri (2018). The impact of redistribution mechanism in the vote with the wallet game: Experimental results. Social Choice and Welfare, 51(4), 595-619.

• Becchetti, L., V. Pelligra, F. Salustri, and A. Vásquez (2018). Gender differences in socially responsible consumption. An experimental investigation. Applied Economics, 50(33), 3630-3643.

• Becchetti, L., P. Conzo, and F. Salustri (2017). The impact of health expenditure on the number of chronic diseases. Health Policy, 121(9), 955-962.

• Becchetti, L., V. Pelligra, and F. Salustri (2017). Testing for heterogeneity of preferences in randomized experiments: a satisfaction-based approach applied to multiplayer prisoners' dilemmas. Applied Economics Letters, 24(10), 722-726.

Book chapters

• Abou-Jaoude, G., N. Batura, A. Correa Ossa, H. Haghparast-Bidgoli, R. Leiva Granados, T. Palmer, S. Poupakis, F. Salustri, and J. Skordis (2023). Economics of global health. In: Raviglione, M.C., F. Tediosi, S. Villa, N. Casamitjana, A. Plasència (eds.). "Global health essentials". Sustainable Development Goals Series. Springer, Cham.

• Becchetti, L. and F. Salustri (2023). Climate responsibility, eco-anxiety, and perception about governments. In: Koundouri, P., Anquetil-Deck, C., Becchetti, L., Berthet, E., Borghesi, S., Cavalli, L., Chioatto, E., Cruickshank, E., Devves, S., Dibattista, I., Giovannini, E., Halkos, G., Hansmeyer, C., Landis, C., Mazzarano, M., Papa, C., Patel, K., Plataniotis, A., Salustri, F., and Tiwari, M.M. (2023) Transforming Our World: Interdisciplinary Insights on the Sustainable Development Goals. SDSN European Green Deal Senior Working Group 

• Salustri, F. (2022). Barriere economiche e culturali per una salute globale. In: Alleanza Italiana per lo Sviluppo Sostenibile. "Salute globale e determinanti sociali, ambientali ed economici", Quaderni dell'Asvis, 6.

• Becchetti L., T. Palmer, F. Salustri (2022). Air pollution and COVID-19. In: Zimmermann, K.F. (eds). "Handbook of labor, human resources and population economics". Springer, Cham.

• Becchetti, L. e F. Salustri (2017). Il voto col portafoglio. In: Cogliati Dezza V. (eds). "Alla scoperta della green society", 171–177, Edizioni Ambiente.

Working papers

• Social preferences among children at school: experimental evidence (with S. Badiglio and L. Seta)

• Strenght-based approach and social care outcomes (with P. Candio)

• Does reducing inequality in physical activity equal to reduce inequality in health? (with P. Candio) 

• Climate change, eco-anxiety and altitude in low- and middle-income countries (with L. Becchetti and C. Lubicz)

• What about the others? Conditional cooperation, climate change perception and ecological actions (with L. Becchetti and G. Conzo)

• The political economy of the vote with the wallet (with L. Becchetti)