My main research area is the economics of inequality. My research interests also include economic theory, public economics, and micro-econometrics for developing countries.
Working papers
Measuring indecisiveness (with Mauro Papi), Universidad de Málaga, Department of Economic Theory, Málaga Economic Theory Research Center WP 2024-04, available here.
"Which way up? Consistency, anti-consistency and inconsistency of social welfare and inequality partial orderings for ordinal data" (with Gaston Yalonetzky), Universidad de Málaga, Department of Economic Theory, Málaga Economic Theory Research Center WP 2024-01, available here.
Journal Publications
Ordering distributions on a finitely generated cone. Social Choice and Welfare (forthcoming) available here.
A procedural model of decreasing indecisiveness, (with Mauro Papi). Oxford Economics Papers (forthcoming) available here.
Inferring inequality: statistical tests for median preserving spreads, (with Christopher Stapenhurst and Gaston Yalonetzky). Econometric Reviews 43,156-174 (2024), available here.
Bread and Social Justice: Measurement of Social Welfare and Inequalities Using Anthropometrics, (with Mohammad Abu-Zaineh), Review of Income and Wealth, 69, 265-288 (2023), available here.
The minimal Hilbert basis of the Hammond order cone, Economic Theory Bulletin 10, 191-215 (2022), available here.
Asymptotic versus Bootstrap Inference for Inequality Indices of the Cumulative Distribution Function, (with Christopher Stapenhurst and Gaston Yalonetzky), Econometrics 8, (2020), available here.
Measurement of Inequality with a Finite Number of Pay States: The Majorization Set and its Applications, Economic Theory 65, 99-123 (2018), available here.
“Joint Hypotheses Tests for Multidimensional Inequality Indices” (with Yajie Shen and Hong Il Yoo), Economics Letters, 141, 138-142 (2016).
“Estimation of Inequality Indices of the Cumulative Distribution Function”, (with Christopher Stapenhurst), Economics Letters 130, 109-112, (2015).
“Helping Others or Helping Oneself? International Subsidies and the Provision of Global Public Goods.” (with Philip Jones), Oxford Economic Papers 65, 856-875 (2013).
“Better to Give than Receive? Altruistic Provision of a Global Public Good” (with Philip Jones), Economics Letters, 115, 480-483 (2012)
“Statistical Inference for Multidimensional Inequality Indices”, Economics Letters, 107, 49-51 (2010)
“Inequality Measurement for Ordered Response Health Data” (with Tarik Yalcin), Journal of Health Economics 27, 1614-1625 (2008)
“Biases of the Ordinary Least Squares and Instrumental Variables Estimators of the Intergenerational Earnings Correlation: Revisited in the Light of Panel Data”, Journal of Economic Inequality 6, 323-350 (2008)
“The Redistributive Impact of Alternative Income Maintenance Schemes: A Microsimulation Study Using Swiss Household Data” (with Christophe Kolodziecszyk and Tobias Muller), Review of Income and Wealth 54 (2008), 193-219.
“Poverty and Permanent Income: A Methodology for Cross-Section Data”, (with Enrico Bolzani), Annales d’Economie et Statistique 81 (2006), 195-223.
“Decomposition of Bivariate Inequality Indices by Attributes” (with Pierre-Yves Geoffard), Economics Letters 90 (2006), 362-367.
“Social Welfare Orderings: A Life-Cycle Perspective”, Economica 72 (2005), 497-514.
“Quantity Constraints, Poverty Lines and Poverty Orderings”, Journal of Economic Inequality 2 (2004), 31-43.
“The Allocation of Benefits under Uncertainty: A Decision-Theoretic Framework”, Economic Modeling 20 (2003), 873-893.
“Estimating the Intergenerational Elasticity of Incomes: An Errors in Variables Framework”, Economica 69 (2002), 69-91.
“La Distribution des Salaires en Suisse : Quelques Observations sur la Récession des Années 90” (with Enrico Bolzani), Swiss Journal of Economics and Statistics 138 (2002), 115-136.
“Family Background, Intergenerational Mobility, and Earnings Distribution”, Swiss Journal of Economics and Statistics 134 (1998), 527-543.
“Stability of Robust and Non-Robust Principal Component Analysis” (with Gérard Antille), Computational Statistics and Data Analysis, 10, (1990), 169-174.
Books and book chapters
“Wealth, Health and the Measurement of Multidimensional Inequality: Evidence from the Middle East and North Africa (with Mohammad Abu-Zaineh), in O’Donnell O. and P. Rosa-Dias editors: Research on Economic Inequality, volume 21 (2013).
“Income, Consumption and Permanent Income: a MIMIC approach to Multidimensional Poverty Measurement” (with Enrico Bolzani), chapter 6 of Kakwani N. and J. Silber editors: Quantitative Approaches to Multidimensional Poverty Measurement, London, Palgrave MacMillan, (2008).
“Panel Data Estimation of the Intergenerational Correlation of Incomes” (with Jaya Krishnakumar), in Krishnakumar J. and E. Ronchetti eds: Panel Data: Future Research Directions, Essays in Honour of Professor Pietro Balestra Amsterdam, Elsevier, (2000).