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Ongoing Projects

• Targeting and effectiveness of location-based policies (with G. De Blasio, A. Ferrara and R. Nisticò) IZA DP 17308

• Medical progress and the demand for emergency care (with P. Li Donni and Dorte Gyrd-Hansen)

• Newsworthy Workplace Deaths (with F. Principe and M. Filomena)

• Health Prevention Spillovers: Evidence from Organised Cancer Screening Programmes in Europe (with S. Guthmüller and A.Wuebker)  

• The Spatial Equilibrium Effects of Hospital Closures (with R. Lagravinese and A. Ferrara)

Peer-reviewed publications (chronological list)

1. Disability Insurance As a Complement to Labor Income:  Evidence From Italian Administrative Data,  Health Economics, Forthcoming,  https://doi.org/10.1002/hec.70072  (with F. Zantomio, M. Belloni, E. Farina, E. Simonetti)

2. Effects of organized screening program on breast cancer screening, incidence, and mortality in Europe, Journal of Health Economics, Forthcoming, 92:102803. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhealeco.2023.102803  (with S. Guthmuller and A. Wuebker)

3. Healthy ageing for all? A health growth incidence curve approach, Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, Forthcoming. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/14680084 (with V. Carrieri, A. Jones and M. Speziali)

4. Equality of opportunity and the expansion of higher education in the UK, Review of Income and Wealth, Accepted, in press. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/14754991 (with A. Davillas and A.M. Jones)

5. Health’s Kitchen: TV, Edutainment and Nutrition, Journal of Human Resources. https://doi.org/10.3368/jhr.1022-12608R2  (with F. Principe)

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

7. Empirical health economics for evidence-based policies: some lessons from Italy, in Baltagi B., Moscone F. (eds.), Recent Developments in Health Econometrics, Chapter 5. https://www.emerald.com/insight/publication/doi/10.1108/S0731-905320190000068005  (with F. Principe)

8. Beyond GDP: Assessing the impact of 2007–13 EU Cohesion Policy, Regional Studies, 1–21. https://doi.org/10.1080/00343404.2023.2289123  (with G. Albanese, A. Ferrara and M. Speziali)

9. Trust and COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy, Nature-Scientific Reports, 13:9245. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-36057-2  (with S. Guthmuller and A. Wuebker)

10. WHO and for how long? An empirical analysis of the consumers’ response to red meat warning, Food Policy, 108:102231. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foodpol.2022.102231  (with F. Principe)

11. Predicting vaccine hesitancy from area-level indicators: A machine learning approach, Health Economics, 30(12):3248–3256. https://doi.org/10.1002/hec.4441  (with R. Lagravinese and G. Resce)

12. The health-economy trade-off during the COVID-19 pandemic: Communication matters, PLoS ONE, 16(9):e0256103. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0256103 (with M. De Paola and F. Gioia)

13. Do-it-Yourself medicine? The impact of (unintended) light cannabis liberalization on drug prescriptions in Italy, Journal of Health Economics, 74:102371. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhealeco.2020.102371  (with L. Madio and F. Principe)

14. A latent class approach to inequity in health using biomarker data, Health Economics, 29:808–826. https://doi.org/10.1002/hec.4016  (with A. Davillas and A.M. Jones)

15. Productivity shocks and labour market outcomes for top earners: Evidence from Italian Serie A, Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 82:549–576. https://doi.org/10.1111/obes.12337  (with F. Principe and A.M. Jones)

16. Vaccine hesitancy and fake news: Quasi-experimental evidence from Italy, Health Economics, 28:1377–1382. https://doi.org/10.1002/hec.3930  (with L. Madio and F. Principe)

17. Light cannabis and organized crime: Evidence from (unintended) liberalization in Italy, European Economic Review, 113:63–76. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.euroecorev.2019.01.001  (with L. Madio and F. Principe)

18. Intergenerational transmission of nicotine within families: Have e-cigarettes influenced passive smoking?, Economics & Human Biology, 31:83–93. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ehb.2018.08.002  (with A.M. Jones)

19. Inequality of opportunity in health: A decomposition-based approach, Health Economics, 27:1981–1995. https://doi.org/10.1002/hec.3814  (with A.M. Jones)

20. What makes you “super-rich”? New evidence from football players’ wages, Oxford Economic Papers, 70:950–973. https://doi.org/10.1093/oep/gpy016  (with F. Principe and M. Raitano)

21. The income–health relationship “beyond the mean”: New evidence from biomarkers, Health Economics, 26:937–956. https://doi.org/10.1002/hec.3371  (with A.M. Jones)

22. Home sweet home? Public financing and inequalities in the use of home care services in Europe, Fiscal Studies, 38:445–468. https://doi.org/10.1111/1475-5890.12133  (with C. Di Novi and C. Orso)

23. Smoking for the poor and vaping for the rich? Distributional concerns for novel nicotine delivery systems, Economics Letters, 149:71–74. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.econlet.2016.10.010  (with A.M. Jones)

24. Quasi-experimental evidence on the effects of health information on preventive behaviour in Europe, Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 78. https://doi.org/10.1111/obes.12123  (with A. Wuebker)

25. On the causal effects of selective admission policies on students’ performances, Oxford Economic Papers, 67(4):1034–1056. https://doi.org/10.1093/oep/gpv020  (with M. D’Amato and R. Zotti)

26. Insecure, sick and unhappy? Well-being consequences of temporary employment, Research in Labor Economics, 40:157–193. https://doi.org/10.1108/S0147-912120140000040006  (with C. Di Novi, R. Jacobs and S. Robone)

27. Preventive care: Underused even when free. Is there something else at work?, Applied Economics, 45:239–253. https://doi.org/10.1080/00036846.2011.597727  (with M. Bilger)

28. Health in the cities: When the neighbourhood matters more than income, Journal of Health Economics, 32:1–11. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhealeco.2012.09.006  (with M. Bilger)

29. Assessing inequalities in preventive care use in Europe, Health Policy, 113:247–257. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.healthpol.2013.07.002  (with A. Wuebker)

30. Height and subjective well-being in Italy, Economics & Human Biology, 10:289–29

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ehb.2012.03.001  (with M. De Paola)

31. Social comparison and subjective well-being: Does the health of others matter?, Bulletin of Economic Research, 64(1):31-55. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-8586.2010.00371.x 

Other publications (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).