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Working Papers

2024

1. Educational divide between voters: A nationwide trend?
   Working Paper CRENoS, Centre for North South Economic Research, University of Cagliari and Sassari, Sardinia
2. Inference for deprivation profiles in a binary setting
   Working Paper CRENoS, Centre for North South Economic Research, University of Cagliari and Sassari, Sardinia

2020

3. On Unit Free Assessment of The Extent of Multilateral Distributional Variation
   Cambridge Working Papers in Economics, Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge
   Also in Working Papers, University of Toronto, Department of Economics (2020) View citations (1)
   See also Journal Article On unit free assessment of the extent of multilateral distributional variation, The Econometrics Journal, Royal Economic Society (2021) View citations (1) (2021)

2018

4. Measuring the Middle Class in Kazakhstan: A Subjective Approach
   Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank
5. Multidimensional Nation Wellbeing, More Equal yet More Polarized: An Analysis of the Progress of Human Development since 1990
   Working Papers, University of Toronto, Department of Economics View citations (2)

2017

6. Rectangular latent Markov models for time-specific clustering
   Working Papers, University of Toronto, Department of Economics View citations (1)

2016

7. Income Inequality, Family Formation and Generational Mobility in Urban China
   Working Papers, University of Toronto, Department of Economics

2015

8. Evaluating Progress Toward an Equal Opportunity Goal: Assessing the German Educational Reforms of the First Decade of the 21st Century
   Working Papers, University of Toronto, Department of Economics

2014

9. A new approach to measuring and studying the characteristics of class membership: The progress of poverty, inequality and polarization of income classes in urban China
   Working Papers, University of Toronto, Department of Economics View citations (3)

2013

10. Has the attitude of US citizens towards redistribution changed over time?
    DSS Empirical Economics and Econometrics Working Papers Series, Centre for Empirical Economics and Econometrics, Department of Statistics, "Sapienza" University of Rome
    See also Journal Article Has the attitude of US citizens towards redistribution changed over time?, Economic Modelling, Elsevier (2016) View citations (5) (2016)
11. The make-up of a regression coefficient: gender gaps in the European labor market
    DSS Empirical Economics and Econometrics Working Papers Series, Centre for Empirical Economics and Econometrics, Department of Statistics, "Sapienza" University of Rome View citations (1)
    See also Journal Article The “Make-up” of a Regression Coefficient: Gender Gaps in the European Labor Market, Review of Income and Wealth, International Association for Research in Income and Wealth (2015) View citations (2) (2015)

2011

12. Partially Identified Poverty Status: A New Approach to Measuring Poverty and the Progress of the Poor
    Working Papers, University of Toronto, Department of Economics View citations (1)
13. The make-up of a regression coefficient: An application to gender
    DSS Empirical Economics and Econometrics Working Papers Series, Centre for Empirical Economics and Econometrics, Department of Statistics, "Sapienza" University of Rome

2010

14. Does regional cost-of-living reshuffle Italian income distribution?
    Working Papers, ECINEQ, Society for the Study of Economic Inequality View citations (7)
15. Measures of poverty and inequality in the countries and regions of EU
    Working Papers, ECINEQ, Society for the Study of Economic Inequality View citations (8)

2005

16. Regional Empirics for Economic Disparities in Italy: 1951-2001
    Econometrics, University Library of Munich, Germany

2003

17. Stability of household income in European countries in the 1990's
    IRISS Working Paper Series, IRISS at CEPS/INSTEAD View citations (3)
    See also Journal Article Stability of household income in European countries in the 1990s, Computational Statistics & Data Analysis, Elsevier (2006) View citations (6) (2006)

Undated

18. Mixture Models and Convergence Clubs
    Vassar College Department of Economics Working Paper Series, Vassar College Department of Economics View citations (40)

Journal Articles

2023

1. Anchoring Measurement of the Middle‐Income Class to Subjective Evaluation
   Review of Income and Wealth, 2023, 69, (1), 60-75

2022

2. Editors' Introduction
   Review of Income and Wealth, 2022, 68, (S2), S261-S263

2021

3. On unit free assessment of the extent of multilateral distributional variation
   The Econometrics Journal, 2021, 24, (3), 502-518 View citations (1)
   See also Working Paper On Unit Free Assessment of The Extent of Multilateral Distributional Variation, Cambridge Working Papers in Economics (2020) (2020)

2020

4. Measuring the progress of equality of educational opportunity in absence of cardinal comparability
   METRON, 2020, 78, (2), 155-174

2019

5. A dynamic inhomogeneous latent state model for measuring material deprivation
   Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series A, 2019, 182, (2), 495-516 View citations (5)
6. More unequal yet more alike, the changing patterns of family formation, generational mobility and household income inequality in China: a counter-factual analysis
   The Journal of Economic Inequality, 2019, 17, (3), 359-378 View citations (1)
7. Rectangular latent Markov models for time‐specific clustering, with an analysis of the wellbeing of nations
   Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series C, 2019, 68, (3), 603-621 View citations (2)

2018

8. Income Inequality, Cohesiveness and Commonality in the Euro Area: A Semi-Parametric Boundary-Free Analysis
   Econometrics, 2018, 6, (2), 1-20 View citations (12)

2017

9. At the roots of Gini’s transvariation: extracts from “Il concetto di transvariazione e le sue prime applicazioni”
   METRON, 2017, 75, (2), 127-140 View citations (4)

2016

10. A new approach to measuring and studying the characteristics of class membership: Examining poverty, inequality and polarization in urban China
    Journal of Econometrics, 2016, 191, (2), 348-359 View citations (14)
11. Evidence of Convergence Clubs Using Mixture Models
    Econometric Reviews, 2016, 35, (7), 1317-1342 View citations (8)
12. Has the attitude of US citizens towards redistribution changed over time?
    Economic Modelling, 2016, 52, (PB), 714-724 View citations (5)
    See also Working Paper Has the attitude of US citizens towards redistribution changed over time?, DSS Empirical Economics and Econometrics Working Papers Series (2013) (2013)
13. Measuring changes in the Russian middle class between 1992 and 2008: a nonparametric distributional analysis
    Empirical Economics, 2016, 50, (2), 503-530 View citations (9)

2015

14. The “Make-up” of a Regression Coefficient: Gender Gaps in the European Labor Market
    Review of Income and Wealth, 2015, 61, (3), 401-421 View citations (2)
    See also Working Paper The make-up of a regression coefficient: gender gaps in the European labor market, DSS Empirical Economics and Econometrics Working Papers Series (2013) View citations (1) (2013)

2014

15. Poverty status probability: a new approach to measuring poverty and the progress of the poor
    The Journal of Economic Inequality, 2014, 12, (4), 469-488 View citations (15)

2013

16. Hierarchical Modelling of Disparities in Preferences for Redistribution
    Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 2013, 75, (4), 556-584 View citations (18)

2012

17. Poverty and inequality in European regions
    Journal of Applied Statistics, 2012, 39, (7), 1557-1576 View citations (11)

2010

18. Economic Disparities and Life Satisfaction in European Regions
    Social Indicators Research: An International and Interdisciplinary Journal for Quality-of-Life Measurement, 2010, 96, (2), 339-361 View citations (55)
19. MIXTURE MODELS, CONVERGENCE CLUBS, AND POLARIZATION
    Review of Income and Wealth, 2010, 56, (1), 102-122 View citations (39)

2009

20. A dwindling middle class? Italian evidence in the 2000s
    The Journal of Economic Inequality, 2009, 7, (4), 333-350 View citations (30)
21. Diversity in Europe: how European citizens support redistributive policies
    Politica economica, 2009, (3), 301-332

2006

22. Empirical evidence of income dynamics across EU regions
    Journal of Applied Econometrics, 2006, 21, (5), 605-628 View citations (51)
    Also in Journal of Applied Econometrics, 2006, 21, (5), 605-628 (2006) View citations (3)
23. Metodi non parametrici nell'analisi della distribuzione del reddito: problemi empirici ed aspetti metodologici
    Rivista di Politica Economica, 2006, 96, (3), 195-242 View citations (6)
24. Stability of household income in European countries in the 1990s
    Computational Statistics & Data Analysis, 2006, 51, (2), 1364-1383 View citations (6)
    See also Working Paper Stability of household income in European countries in the 1990's, IRISS Working Paper Series (2003) View citations (3) (2003)
25. Trends in Income Distribution in Italy: A Non-Parametric 90 and a Semi-Parametric Analysis
    Journal of Income Distribution, 2006, 15, (3-4), 90-118 View citations (8)

2005

26. Fitting Regional Income Distributions in the European Union
    Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 2005, 67, (2), 135-161 View citations (30)

2004

27. Testing for changing shapes of income distribution: Italian evidence in the 1990s from kernel density estimates
    Empirical Economics, 2004, 29, (2), 415-430 View citations (13)

2001

28. Income distribution in Italy: A nonparametric analysis
    Statistical Methods & Applications, 2001, 10, (1), 175-189 View citations (5)

2000

29. Fitting a fuzzy consensus partition to a set of partitions to analyze the modern economic growth across countries
    Statistical Methods & Applications, 2000, 9, (1), 183-198

Chapters

2023

1. Mixture models and poverty measurement
   Chapter 16 in Research Handbook on Measuring Poverty and Deprivation, 2023, pp 171-179

2021

2. Modeling Household Poverty Status Using Repeated Cross-sectional Surveys
   A chapter in Research on Economic Inequality: Poverty, Inequality and Shocks, 2021, vol. 29, pp 57-76