Publications

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Risky behaviours

• Effects of organized screening program on breast cancer screening, incidence, and mortality in Europe Journal of Health Economics, Forthcoming, 92: 102803 (with S.Guthmuller  and A. Wuebker)

• Trust and COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy,  Scientific Reports 13, 9245, 2023 (with S.Guthmuller  and A. Wuebker)

• WHO and for how long? An empirical analysis of the consumers’ response to red meat warning,  Food Policy , 2022, 108, 102231 (with F. Principe)

• The health-economy trade-off during the Covid-19 pandemic: Communication matters, PLoS ONE , 2021, 16(9): e0256103.  (with  M. De Paola and F. Gioia )

• Predicting vaccine hesitancy from area-level indicators: A machine learning approach,  Health Economics, 2021, 30, 12: 3248-56 (with R. Lagravinese and G. Resce)

• Do-it-Yourself medicine? The impact of (unintended) light cannabis liberalization on drug prescriptions in Italy, Journal of Health Economics, 2020, 74: 102371 (with L. Madio and F. Principe). 

• Vaccine Hesitancy and Fake News: Quasi-experimental Evidence from Italy,  Health Economics, 2019;28:1377–1382. (with L. Madio and F. Principe) - most downloaded articles at HE

• Light cannabis and organized crime. Evidence from (unintended) liberalization in Italy, European Economic Review, 2019, 113: 63-76. (with L. Madio and F. Principe)  

• Intergenerational transmission of nicotine within families: have e-cigarettes influenced passive smoking?  Economics and Human Biology, 2018, 31: 83-93. (with A.M. Jones) 

• Smoking for the poor and vaping for the rich? Distributional concerns for novel nicotine delivery systems, Economics Letters, 2016, 149: 71-74. (with A.M. Jones)

• Quasi-experimental evidence on the effects of health information on preventive behaviour in Europe, Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 2016, 78: 0305–9049. (with A. Wuebker) 

• Preventive care: underused even when free. Is there something else at work?, Applied Economics,  2013, 45:239-253 (with M. Bilger)

 Inequalities in health/health care use

• On the Road to Equity: Examining Income-Related Inequalities in Ownership of Safer Vehicles, Oxford Open Economics  16049 (with A. Davillas and V. H. de Oliveira)

• Equality of opportunity and the expansion of higher education in the UK.  Review of Income and Wealth, Accepted, in press.  (with A. Davillas and  A.M. Jones)

• A latent class approach to inequity in health using biomarker data.  Health Economics,  2020, 29: 808-826   (with A. Davillas and  A.M. Jones)

• Inequality of opportunity in health: A decomposition-based approach, Health Economics, 2018, 27: 1981-95. (with. A.M. Jones)

• The income-health relationship 'beyond the mean': New evidence from biomarkers, Health Economics, 2017, 26: 937–956 (with A.M. Jones)

• Home Sweet Home? Public Financing and Inequalities in the use of Home Care Services in Europe, Fiscal Studies, 2017, 38:  445-468 (with C. Di Novi, C. Orso)

• Assessing inequalities in preventive care use in Europe, Health Policy, 2013, 113:247-257. (with A. Wuebker)

• Insecure, sick and unhappy? Well-being consequences of temporary employment, Research in Labor Economics-IZA, 2014, 40:157-193 (with C. Di Novi, R. Jacobs, S. Robone )

• Health in the cities: when the neighbourhood natters more than income, Journal of Health Economics, 2013, 32 :1-11. (with M. Bilger)

 Human capital/health/policy evaluation

• Empirical health economics for evidence-based policies: some lessons from Italy, in Baltagi, B., Moscone F. (Eds), Recent Developments in Health Econometrics, A Volume in Honour of Andrew Jones, chapter 5 (with F. Principe)

•  Beyond GDP: Assessing the impact of 2007-13 EU Cohesion Policy, Regional Studies,2024, 1-21 (with G. Albanese, A. Ferrara and M. Speziali)

• Productivity shocks and labour market outcomes for top earners: evidence from Italian Serie A, Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 2020, 82:549-576. (with F. Principe and A. M. Jones)

• What makes you 'super-rich'?  New evidence from an analysis of football players' wages, Oxford Economic Papers, 2018, 70: 950-73.(with F. Principe, M. Raitano).

• On the causal effects of selective admission policies on students' performances. Evidence from a quasi-experiment in a large Italian University, Oxford Economic Papers, 2015, 67 (4): 1034-1056 (with M. D'Amato, R. Zotti)

• Height and subjective well-being in Italy, Economics and Human Biology, 2012, 10, pp. 289-98 (with M. De Paola)

• Social Comparison and Subjective Well-being: Does the Health of others matter?, Bulletin of Economic Research, 2012, 64:1, pp. 31-55

In Italian journals

• I working poor in Italia: quanti sono, chi sono e quanto sono poveri? Italian Journal of Social Policy, 2/2012 , pp. 71-96 

• The Effects of Cost-Sharing in Health Care: What Do We Know From Empirical Evidence?, Economia Politica-Journal of Analytical and Institutional Economics, 2010, XXVII, 2: 351-374. 

• Searching for New Ways to Finance National Health Services: A Note on the Role of Cost Sharing, Journal of Public Finance and Public Choice, 2008, 2-3: 109-122 (with E. Granaglia)

• Place of Residence and Health: Empirical Evidence From Italy, Rivista Italiana Degli Economisti, 2011, XVI, 3: 383-409. (with Marcel Bilger).

• Disuguaglianze di salute e condizioni socio-economiche in Italia: Esiste una questione meridionale? Politiche sanitarie, 2008, 9: 15-24.

• Il sostegno al reddito dei lavoratori poveri. In Valeria Fargion e Elisabetta Gualmini (Eds), Tra l'incudine e il martello.Regioni e nuovi rischi sociali in tempo di crisi, p.193-228, Bologna: Il Mulino (with A. Castaldo, E. Granaglia).

• Le compartecipazioni come strumento di finanziamento della sanità: Una strada percorribile? in Pizzuti, F.R. (ed.) Rapporto Sullo Stato sociale 2010- La grande crisi del 2008 e il welfare state, pp. 193-202. Academia Universa Press, Milano.

• La spesa socio-assistenziale dei comuni Italiani in, Commissione D'Indagine sull'esclusione sociale (ed.) Rapporto sulle politiche contro la povertà e l'esclusione sociale 2009-2010, pp. 193-201, Roma (with L.Elia).

Working Papers

• Behavioural responses to disability insurance generosity in a work-compatibility setting (with F. Zantomio, M. Belloni, E. Farinetti, I. Simonetti) IZA WP 16819

Ongoing Projects

• Health’s kitchen: TV, Edutainment and Nutrition (with F. Principe)- Conditionally accepted at Journal of Human Resources

• Machine learning targeting for location-based policies (with G. De Blasio, A. Ferrara and R. Nisticò)

• The returns of medical progress (with P. Li Donni)