Francesco Scervini
Last update: January 2024
I am Associate Professor of Economic Policy at the Department of Political and Social Sciences of the University of Pavia, where I am coordinator of the master degree in Sviluppo Economico e Relazioni Internazionali (Economic Development and International Relations) and member of the faculty of the PhD in Economics Milano-Pavia.
My research interests are in the field of Inequality and Redistribution, Political Economics, Economics of Education, Public Economics.
I received the Aldi Hagenaars Memorial Award from the Luxembourg Income Study in 2010 and the SIEP prize from the Società Italiana di Economia Pubblica in 2009 and 2014.
I currently teach Economic Policy and Introductory Econometrics for Social Sciences at University of Pavia and Macroeconomics at Bocconi University.
Publications
I published several articles in international journals and chapters in books. Here you can find the list of publications in international peer reviewed journals. The full list of publications including also book chapters, policy reports and other materials is in my curriculum vitae below. You can also find my profiles on Orcid, Ideas/Repec and Google scholar.
Social media charity campaigns and pro-social behavior. Evidence from the Ice Bucket Challenge (with A. Fazio and T. Reggiani), Journal of Economic Psychology, 2023
Collective negative shocks and preferences for redistribution: Evidence from the COVID-19 crisis in Germany (with L. Bellani and A. Fazio), Journal of Economic Inequality, 2023
Strategic Compromise, Policy Bundling and Interest Group Power: Theory and Evidence on Education Policy (with L. Bellani and V. Fabella), European Journal of Political Economy, 2022
Intergenerational Precautionary Savings in Europe (with S. Trucchi), Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 2022
Inequality, privatization, and democratic institutions in developing countries (with L. Ceriani and S. Scabrosetti), Hacienda Pública Espanola/Review of Public Economics, 2022
Comparing governments’ efficiency at supplying income redistribution (with F. Padovano and G. Turati), Constitutional Political Economy, 2021
Heterogeneity in preferences for redistribution and public spending: a cross-country analysis (with L. Bellani), European Journal of Political Economy, 2020
Selecting or rewarding teachers? International evidence from primary schools (with M. Braga, D. Checchi and C. Garrouste), Economics of Education Review, 2020
Estimating conversion rates: A new empirical strategy with an application to healthcare in Italy (with E. Chiappero and P. Salardi), Health Economics, 2019
Grandparental availability for child care and maternal labor force participation: pension reform evidence from Italy (with M. Bratti and T. Frattini), Journal of Population Economics, 2018
The performance of politicians: the effect of gender quotas (with M. Braga), European Journal of Political Economy, 2017
Should we resurrect ‘TIPP flottante’ if oil price booms again? Specific taxes as fuel consumer price stabilizers (with M. Di Giacomo, M. Piacenza, G. Turati), Energy Economics, 2015
Heterogeneous preferences and in-kind redistribution: theory and evidence (with L. Bellani), European Economic Review, 2015
Expansion of schooling and educational inequality in Europe: the educational Kuznets curve revisited (with E. Meschi), Oxford Economic Papers, 2014
A new dataset on educational inequality (with E. Meschi), Empirical Economics, 2014
Empirics of the median voter: democracy, redistribution and the role of the middle class, Journal of Economic Inequality, 2012
Education, inequality and electoral participation (with P. Segatti), Research in Social Stratification and Mobility, 2012
Working papers and in progress
Issue salience and women performance: Theory and evidence from Google trends, with M. Cella and E. Manzoni (under review)
Fear of the dark: how terrorist events affect trust in people, with E. Borghi and M. Braga (R&R)
Wasted years. Exposure to democracy and MEPs attitude toward EU integration, with M. Ceron and A. Fazio (under review)
Alcohol consumption in an empty nest, with S. Trucchi
Redistributive effects of fuel taxation, with M. Di Giacomo, M. Piacenza and G. Turati
A comparison among inequality indices, with F. Cowell and C. Fiorio
Factors driving the expansion of education in Europe in the 20th century, with G. Ballarino and E. Meschi
Contacts
Francesco Scervini
Università degli Studi di Pavia
Dipartimento di Scienze Politiche e Sociali
Corso Strada Nuova, 65
27100 - Pavia (Italy)
+39.0382.98.4419
Curriculum vitae
CV_complete.pdf