Research

(selected publications)

Distribution and Redistribution

"Multidimensional Well-Being: A Bayesian Networks Approach," joint with Chiara Gigliarano, Social Indicators Research, 2020

"Individual Diversity and the Gini Decomposition," joint with Paolo Verme, Social Indicators Research, 121, 637-646, 2015

"An Inter-temporal Relative Deprivation Index," joint with Chiara Gigliarano, Social Indicators Research, 124(2), 427-443, 2015

"The income lever and the allocation of aid," joint with Paolo Verme, Journal of Development Studies, 50(11), 1510-1522, 2014

Poverty Measurement

"Housing, imputed rent, and household welfare", joint with Marco Ranzani and Sergio Olivieri, Journal of Economic Inequality, 2022, https://doi.org/10.1007/s10888-022-09545-7

"Bottom incomes and the measurement of poverty and inequality," joint with V. Hlasny and Paolo Verme, Review of Income and Wealth, 2021 (forthcoming)

"Very low incomes and poverty measurement," in J. Silbert (Ed.) Research Handbook on Measuring Poverty and Deprivation

Elgar Handbooks in Development, Elgar Handbooks in Development, Chapter 15, forthcoming March 2023

"Vulnerability to Poverty: Empirical Findings," in C. D’Ambrosio (Ed.) Handbook of Research on Economic and Social Well-Being, Chapter 12, Edward Elgar Publishing, 2018

"Rent-Imputation for Welfare Measurement: A Review of Methodologies and Empirical Findings," joint with C. F. Balc ́azar, S. Olivieri and M. Ranzani, Review of Income and Wealth, doi:10.1111/roiw.12312, 2017

"Intertemporal Material Deprivation," joint with Walter Bossert, Satya R. Chakravarty and Conchita D’Ambrosio, pp 128-142, in Poverty and Social Exclusion, in A. Lemmi and G.Betti (eds.), Routledge, 2014

Welfare Effects of Public Policies

"Inequality, privatization, and democratic institutions in developing countries," joint with S. Scabrosetti and F. Scervini, Hacienda Pública Española/Review of Public Economics, 240, 1(2022), 2022

"Consumer Surplus and the Reform of Network Industries: a Primer," with Massimo Florio, Journal of Economics, 102(2), pp. 111-122, 2011

"Labour Tax Reforms and Poverty in Europe," with Simona Scabrosetti, Rivista di Diritto Finanziario e Scienza delle Finanze, 70(4), 480-492, 2011.

The Political Economy of Redistribution

"Arithmetics and Politics of Domestic Resource Mobilization for poverty eradication," joint with Kimberly Blair Bolch and Luis Felipe López-Calva, World Development, 2022 (forthcoming)