Research

My research interest is within the general context of family economics, specifically regarding wellbeing and deprivation. In my current and past roles, I have worked within the area of health economics, economics of ageing, time use, intra-family decision making process, and childhood deprivations. I work mainly as an applied economist in microeconomics setting. 

Publication

• Handastya, N., Betti, G. The ‘Double Fuzzy Set’ Approach to Multidimensional Poverty Measurement: With a Focus on the Health Dimension. Soc Indic Res 166, 201–217 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11205-023-03065-1  

Current project(s)

• Econometric analysis of micro-data for estimating the effects of policy public policies on health outcomes in old age (at the University of Padua)

  • [PLEASE DO NOT CITE] Seasonal Influenza Vaccination Hesitancy and Digital Literacy: Evidence from the European Countries (with M. Celidoni, G. Weber, Nancy Zambon)

  • Cancer screning programs and their effects in Europe: Evidence from SHARE data (with M. Celidoni, G. Weber, Nancy Zambon) 

• Childhood's circumstances and the old-age health in the Baltic's post-communist welfare state

• The trajectory of mental illnesses during the pandemic in the UK among adults (with G. Slater, K. Ramsey, and L. Ivezic (née Böttcher ))

• Microcredit as a financial relief: Evidence from the Thai Village Fund (with R. Lucchetti, and G. Bettin)

On hold

• Welfare regime, cost of care, and women's fertility choice in East Asia (proposal sent out to Taiwan Fellowship)

• Gender difference in time use among children (developed during a visiting period at the Levy Economics Institute of Bard College)

• Impact of ECB's monetary policy on wealth and income inequality (with A. Zlobins)

I am part of research team/group:

• SHARE Italy (Survey of Health, Ageing, and Retirement in Europe)

• Care Economies in Context - Center for Global Social Policies (University of Toronto)

• Age-IT: Ageing Well in an Ageing Society 

Past works

Graduation thesis

• [2023] Of Deprivation and Well-being: Essays in applied Economics

• [2019] Microcredit and Financial Relief: An Applied Study with Thai Data 

• [2014] Exploratory Study of University as a Learning Organization

Academic presentations and guest lectures

• [2023, November 23th] A Play and Learn O'Clock? On Time-use Among Children in Tanzania
  (Department of Public Economics - Masarykova Univerzita)

• [2023, November 23th] Income Inequality as a Determinant of Health
  (Guest Lecture - Masarykova Univerzita)

• [2021, June 22th] Spatial Inequality as Part of a Wellbeing Deprivation Measurement: A Double Fuzzy Approach
  (European Regional Science Association (ERSA) summer school 2021 - University of Gröningen)

• [2021, Sept 24th] Multidimensional Poverty and Child Mortality in Tunisia
  (DEPS - Universita degli Studi di Siena)

• [2021, Sept 29th] The Pharmaceutical Industry in Indonesia: A global value chain perspective using the input-output methodologies
  (ERCD - The Asian Development Bank)

• [2022, June 11th] To earn one's keep: Children's time use in Tanzanian households
  (DEPS - Universita degli Studi di Siena)

Conference presentations

• [2024, June 28th] Childhood’s circumstances and the old-age health in the Baltic’s post-communist welfare state 
  (IOS Annual Conference: "Getting Old in Eastern Europe. Social, Political and Economic Dimensions of Ageing in the Past and Present" - Leibniz Institute for East and Southeast European Studies)

• [2014, November 5th] Exploratory Study on Learning Organization: A Case Study in Faculty of Economics of a Private University in Jakarta, Indonesia  
  (2ND International Seminar and Conference in Learning Organization (ISCLO) - Telkom Corporate University)