Recent publications and working papers

• Inherited inequality, meritocracy, and the purpose of economic growth (2024 with Francisco Ferreira)
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• Biases in inequality of opportunity estimates: measures and solutions (2024 with Domenico Moramarco and Pedro Salas-Rojo)
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• Inherited inequality: a general framework and an application to South Africa (2023 with Francisco Ferreira and Pedro Salas-Rojo)
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• Inequality of opportunity and intergenerational persistence in Latin America (2023 with Francisco Ferreira and Guido Neidhofer)
  • Oxford Open Economics, 4 (1), i167-i199.
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• Model-based Recursive Partitioning to Estimate Unfair Health Inequalities in the United Kingdom Household Longitudinal Study (2021 with Apostolos Davillas, Andrew N. Jones, Giovanna Scarchilli)
  • Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 204, 543-565.
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• The roots of inequality: estimating inequality of opportunity from regression trees (2022 with Paul Hufe and Daniel Gerszon Mahler)
  • Scandinavian Journal of Economics, doi.org/10.1111/sjoe.12530
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  • Policy brief (in German)

• Estimating Inequality with Missing Incomes (2022 with Pedro Salas-Rojo and Paolo Verme))
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• Income Taxation and Equity: new Dominance Criteria and an Application to Romania (2022 with Flaviana Palmisano and Vito Peragine)
  • Journal of Economic Inequality
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• Prioritarianism and Equality of Opportunity (2021 with  Francisco Ferreira and Vito Peragine)
  • in Prioritarianism in Practice, Cambridge University Press
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• Distant and different? Lockdown and inequalities in Italy (2020 with  Maria Luisa Maitino, Letizia Ravagli and Nicola Sciclone)
  • The Italian Journal of Public Economics and Law / Economia Pubblica
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• Searching for the peak. Google Trends and the monitoring of the Covid-19 outbreak in Italy (2020 with Giuliano Resce and Laura Serlenga)
  • International Journal of Computational Economics and Econometrics
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• Cannabis Policy Changes and Adolescent Cannabis Use: Evidence from Europe (2021 with Elisa Benedetti, Giuliano Resce, Paolo Brunori, Sabrina Molinaro)
  • International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health

• The Evolution of Inequality of Opportunity in Germany: A Machine Learning Approach (2020 with Guido Neidhofer)
  • Review of Income and Wealth
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• Ranking populations in terms of Inequality of health opportunity: A flexible latent type approach (2019 with Alain Trannoy and Caterina Francesca Guidi)
  • Health Economics
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• The French do it better. The distributive effect of introducing French family fiscal policies in Italy. (2019 with Maria Luisa Maitino, Letizia Ravagli, Nicola Sciclone)
  • International Journal of Microsimulation
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• Estimating intergenerational income mobility on sub-optimal data: a machine learn-ing approach (2020 with Francesco Bloise and Patrizio Piraino)
  • Journal of Economic Inequality
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• Inequality of opportunity in Sub-Saharan Africa (2019 with Flaviana Palmisano and Vito Peragine)
  • Applied Economics
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• Upward and downward bias when measuring inequality of opportunity (2018 with Vito Peragine and Laura Serlenga)
  • Social Choice and Welfare
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• Consumption Dynamics and Inequality of Opportunity with an application to Uganda (2017 with Flaviana Palmisano and Vito Peragine)
  • Review of Development Economics
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• The Perception of Inequality of Opportunity in Europe (2016)
  • Review of Income and Wealth
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• Review of: Heckman J., Humphries J. and Kautz T (Eds.), The Myth of Achievement Tests. The GED and the Role of Character in American Life. (2016)
  • Sociologica

• How to Measure Inequality of Opportunity: A Hands-On Guide (2016)
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• Review of Joseph Fishkin's Bottlenecks: A New Theory of Equal Opportunity (2015)
  • Review of Income and Wealth

• Economic Growth and Equality of Opportunity (2014 with Flaviana Palmisano and Vito Peragine)
  • World Bank Economic Review
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• From Oil Subsidies to Social Benefits (2014)
  • IEMed 2014 contribution

• Inequality of Opportunity, Income Inequality and Economic Mobility: Some International Comparisons (2013 with Francisco Ferreira and Vito Peragine )
  • in Getting development right, Palgrave Macmillan
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• Opportunity-sensitive poverty Measurement? (2013 with Francisco Ferreira, Maria Ana Lugo, Vito Peragine)
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• Fairness in education: The Italian university before and after the reform (2012 with Vito Peragine and Laura Serlenga)
  • Economics of Education Review
  • A summary and new evidence in CESifo DICE Report 2/2013: Access to Higher Education

• Compensation, Reward, and the Measurement of Unfair Inequalities (2011 with Vito Peragine)
  • in Research on Economic Inequality

• Italy 2008 Polls, Web Visibility and Election Results (2008 with Bonazzi, Govoni, Lampronti and Zandi)  EDem2008 in (eds.) Peter Parycek, Alexander Prosser