REFERRED JOURNAL PUBLICATIONS
2025, "Inequality, social mobility and redistributive preferences", (with Isabel Günther), Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 229, 106828.
2025, "Can Preferences for Redistribution Explain the Impact of Austerity on Political Participation? Evidence from the UK," (with P. Justino and L. Metzger), Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 87(2): 357-381.
2025, “Humanitarian concerns and threat perceptions: An analysis of the key drivers of refugee attitudes in Germany”, (with Hillenbrand, Tobias, Laura Metzger and Melissa Siegel), Migration Studies, 13(3).
2025, “Lockdown and unrest: inequality, restrictions and protests during COVID-19,” (with F. Iacoella and P. Justino), Journal of Conflict Resolution, 69(7-8), 1309-1339.
2025, "Child work in developing countries: revisiting the differences and similarities between income-generating and care and domestic work," (with E. Camilletti, F. Gassmann, W. Groot), Journal of Development Studies, 61(4), 556–580.
2024, “Re-election incentives and the adoption of early childhood development programmes: the case of the Happy Child Programme in Brazil,” (with R. Tebaldi and F. Gassmann), European Journal of Political Economy, forthcoming.
2023, "The contribution of personality traits and social norms to the gender pay gap: A systematic literature review," (with C. Röthlisberger, F. Gassmann, W. Groot), Journal of Economic Surveys, 37(2): 377-408.
2022, "COVID-19 policy responses, mobility, and food prices" (with S. Dietrich, V. Giuffrida, G. Schmerzeck), American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 104(2): 569–588.
2022, "How social assistance affects subjective Well-being: Lessons from Kyrgyzstan," (with F. Gassmann, J. Waidler), Journal of Development Studies, 58(4): 827-847.
2021, "Chinese official finance and political participation in Africa", (with F. Iacoella, L. Metzger and M. Sanfilippo), European Economic Review, 136, 103741
2020, "Chinese development assistance and household welfare in Sub-Saharan Africa", (with L. Metzger and M. Sanfilippo), World Development, 129, 104909.
2019, “Manufacturing Growth Accelerations in Developing Countries” (with N. Haraguchi, M. Sanfilippo and A. Shingal), Review of Development Economics, 23(4): 1696-1724.
2019, “Redistributive Preferences and Protests in Latin America,” (with P. Justino), Journal of Conflict Resolution, 63(9): 2128-2154.
2019, “What factors drive successful industrialization? Evidence and implications for developing countries” (with M. Sanfilippo and N. Haraguchi), Structural Change and Economic Dynamics, 49(C): 266-276.
2018, “Welfare Spending and Political Conflict in Latin America, 1970 - 2010” (with P. Justino), World Development, 107, 98-110.
2018, “Taxation and inequality in developing countries: Lessons from the recent experience of Latin America”. Journal of International Development, 30(2): 256-273.
2018, “Cyclicality of Fiscal Policy in Latin America over the period 1990 - 2015”, Review of Development Economics, 22(1): 67-90.
2017, “Catching-up, structural transformation, and inequality: industry-level evidence from Asia”, (with D. Park and M. Sanfilippo), Industrial and Corporate Change, 26 (4): 555–570.
2016, “Time Discounting and Credit Market Access in a Large Scale Cash Transfer Program” (with S. Handa, C. Halpern, A. Pettifor, H. Thirumurthy), Journal of African Economies, 25 (3): 367-387.
2016, “Inequality, Power and Participation – Revisiting the Links”, (with J. Gaventa), IDS Bulletin, 47 (5): 11-29.
2015, “Is it possible to adjust ‘with a human face’? Differences in fiscal consolidation strategies between Hungary versus Iceland”, Comparative Economic Studies, 57: 623-654.
2015, “Structural change and wage inequality in the manufacturing sector: long run evidence from East Asia” (with M. Sanfilippo), Oxford Development Studies, 43(2): 212-231
2015, “Lessons from the recent economic crisis: the Australian household stimulus package”, International Review of Applied Economics, 29(3): 309-327.
2014, “The Impact of Uruguay’s 2007 Tax Reform on Equity and Efficiency”, Development Policy Review, 32(6): 701-714.
2014, “The Competing Influences of Initial Depressive Symptomatology and Early Alliance on Early Outcome: A Preliminary Study” (with G. Alberti, A. Martorano), Research in Psychotherapy: Psychopathology, Process and Outcome, 16(2): 109–118.
2014, “Child Well-being in Advanced Economies in the Late 2000s” (with L. Natali, C. de Neubourg and J. Bradshaw), Social Indicators Research, 118(1): 247-283.
2013, “Children’s Subjective Well-being in Rich Countries” (with L. Natali, C. de Neubourg and J. Bradshaw), Child Indicator Research, 6(4): 619-635.
2012, “Innovative Features in Anti-Poverty Programs: An impact evaluation of Chile Solidario on households and children” (with M. Sanfilippo), Journal of International Development, 24(8): 1030 - 1041.
BOOK
2022, “La Politica Economica dei Paesi in Via di Sviluppo”, (with G. A. Cornia, S. Bertoli, L. Bortolotti, D. Romano, M. Sanfilippo, L. Tiberti and E. Ticci, Florence University Press.
OTHER PEER-REVIEWED PUBLICATIONS INCLUDING BOOK CHAPTERS
2017, “The Dynamics of Income Inequality in a Dualistic Economy: Malawi over 1990-2011” (with G. A. Cornia) in Ayodele Odusola, Giovanni Andrea Cornia, Haroon Bhorat and Pedro Conceição (eds.) “Income Inequality Trends in sub-Saharan Africa: Divergence, Determinants, and Consequences”, UNDP.
2017, “Inequality and Growth in an Agricultural-led Development Model: The case of Ethiopia over 1995-2011” (with G. A. Cornia) in Ayodele Odusola, Giovanni Andrea Cornia, Haroon Bhorat and Pedro Conceição (eds.) “Income Inequality Trends in sub-Saharan Africa: Divergence, Determinants, and Consequences”, UNDP.
2017, “Building an Integrated Inequality Dataset and the ‘Seven Sins’ of Inequality Measurement in sub-Saharan Africa” (with G. A. Cornia) in Ayodele Odusola, Giovanni Andrea Cornia, Haroon Bhorat and Pedro Conceição (eds.) “Income Inequality Trends in sub-Saharan Africa: Divergence, Determinants, and Consequences”, UNDP.
2014, “Human Development and Fiscal Policy: Comparing the Crises of 1982-85 and 2008-11” (with G. A. Cornia and F. Stewart) in G. A. Cornia and F. Stewart (eds.), Towards Human Development: New Approaches to Macroeconomics and Inequality, Oxford University Press.
2014, “Tax policy and income distribution during the last decade” (with G. A. Cornia and J. C. Gomez – Sabaini) in G. A. Cornia (ed.), Falling Inequality in Latin America: Policy changes and Lessons, Oxford University Press.
2012, “Policies for Reducing Income Inequality: Latin America during the Last Decade” (with G. A. Cornia), in I. Ortiz, L. Moreira Daniels and S. Engilbertsdottir (eds.), Child Poverty and Inequality, UNICEF, Division of Policy and Practice, New York.
2011, “Democracy, the New Left and Income Distribution: Latin America over the last Decade” (with G. A. Cornia) in E. V. Fitzgerald, J. Heyer and R. Thorpe (eds.), Overcoming the Persistence of Inequality and Poverty, Palgrave, London.
SELECTED WORKING PAPERS (Either Just Submitted or Exceeding 100 Citations)
2025 “Beyond Data Gaps: Tracking Spatial Inequality in Africa Via Nighttime Lights”, (with Elena Perra and Marco Tiberti), http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.5031424.
2024 “The power of narratives: How framing refugee migration impacts attitudes and political support towards refugees,” (with Hillenbrand, Tobias, Laura Metzger and Melissa Siegel), UNU-MERIT Working Paper 2024-007.
2023 “Lost in aggregation? On the importance of local food price data for food poverty estimates”, (with Stephan Dietrich, Valerio Giuffrida, Georg Schmerzeck, Marco Tiberti), R&R.
2023 “The gender inequality effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on the Nigerian labor market”, (with Ana Karen Diaz Mendez), UNU-MERIT Working Papers No. 034.
2020 “Roots of dissent: Trade liberalization and the rise of populism in Brazil” (with F. Iacoella, P. Justino), UNU-MERIT Working Paper 2020-043.
2017 “How to make ‘cash plus’ in social protection work: linking services and sectors” (with K. Roelen, S. Devereux, A. Abdul-Gafaru, T. Palermo, L. P. Ragno), Innocenti Working Paper 2017-10, UNICEF Office of Research, Florence
2012, “Development policies and income inequality: main trends in selected developing regions, 1980-2010” (with G. A. Cornia), UNCTAD Discussion Paper n 210.
2011, “A new fiscal pact, tax policy changes and income inequality: Latin America during the last decade” (with G. A. Cornia and J. C. Gomez–Sabaini), UNU – WIDER, Working Paper N. 2011/70.