Professor of Public Economics
Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche - UniversitĂ di Bologna - Piazza Scaravilli 2, 40126 - Bologna, ITALY - d.fabbri@unibo.it
Research interests: I am interested in Health Economics with a special attention to topics and case studies related to and relevant for the Italian NHS.
Teaching
79076 - Economics of the Biopharmaceutical Industry (LMEPP/HEMAP)
79060 - Fundamentals in Health Economics (EuHEM and LMEPP/HEMAP)
90299 - Public Economics (LMEPP/PAE)
B5638 - Principles of Public Economics (GIOCA)
B2045 - Workshop: The labour market in the healthcare sector (LMEPP/HEMAP)
Publications
Testing exogeneity of multinomial regressors in count data models: does two stages residual inclusion work? (with Andrea Geraci and Chiara Monfardini), JOURNAL OF ECONOMETRIC METHODS, 2018, 7(1).
Cesarean section and the manipulation of exact delivery time (with Chiara Monfardini, Ilaria Castaldini, and Adalgisa Protonotari), HEALTH POLICY, 2016, 120(7): 780-789.
Opt out or top up? Voluntary healthcare insurance and the public vs. private substitution (with Chiara Monfardini) OXFORD BULLETIN OF ECONOMICS AND STATISTICS, 2016, 78(1): 75-93.
The causal effect of education on the body mass: evidence from Europe (with Giorgio Brunello and Margherita Fort) JOURNAL OF LABOR ECONOMICS, 2013, 31(1): 195-223.
The geography of hospital admissions in a National Health Service with patient choice (with Silvana Robone) HEALTH ECONOMICS, 2010, 19(9): 1029-1047.
Decomposing cross-country gaps in levels of obesity and overweight: does the social environment matter? (with Joan Costa-i-Font and Joan Gil) SOCIAL SCIENCE & MEDICINE, 2010, 70(8): 1185-1193.
Decomposing body mass index gaps between Mediterranean countries: a counterfactual quantile regression analysis (with Joan Costa-i-Font and Joan Gil) ECONOMICS & HUMAN BIOLOGY, 2009, 7(3): 351-365.
Rationing the public provision of healthcare in the presence of private supplements: evidence from the Italian NHS (with Chiara Monfardini) JOURNAL OF HEALTH ECONOMICS, 2009, 28(2): 290-306.
Style of practice and assortative mating: a recursive probit analysis of Caesarean section scheduling in Italy (with Chiara Monfardini) APPLIED ECONOMICS, 2008, 40(11): 1411-1423.