Fernando Flores Tavares

Welcome!

I am an adjunct professor of econometrics and a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Siena. I hold a Ph.D. in Economics from the Joint Doctoral Program of the Universities of Florence, Pisa, and Siena, including a visiting research stay at the University of Göttingen in Germany.

My research focuses on poverty, gender, and inequality, with a particular interest in multidimensional approaches, social indicators, and applied methods for causal inference. I have published in journals such as World Development, Social Indicators Research, and Socio-Economic Planning Sciences, with articles examining poverty measurement in Brazil and India, gender disparities, and intimate partner violence.

In recent years, I have worked within research groups studying intimate partner violence and multidimensional poverty in Italian regions. I have also served as a research consultant for UNICEF Innocenti and the World Bank, contributing to projects on child poverty and sampling design.

 I am a Global Labor Organization (GLO) Fellow, a member of the editorial review board of Applied Research in Quality of Life (ARQOL), and a member of the International Society for Quality-of-Life Studies (ISQOLS).