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Working Papers

2025

1. Assessing the European convergence machine: do countries converge and regions do not?
   Working Paper CRENoS, Centre for North South Economic Research, University of Cagliari and Sassari, Sardinia

2024

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

2020

4. 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

5. Measuring the Middle Class in Kazakhstan: A Subjective Approach
   Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank
6. 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)
   See also Journal Article Multidimensional Nation Wellbeing, More Equal yet More Polarized: An Analysis of the Progress of Human Development Since 1990, Journal of Economic Development, Chung-Ang Unviersity, Department of Economics (2019) View citations (1) (2019)

2017

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

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

Undated

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

Journal Articles

2025

1. A measurement scale for material deprivation: A model‐based approach
   Review of Income and Wealth, 2025, 71, (1)

2024

2. Editorial, special issue in memory of Giovanni Maria Giorgi
   METRON, 2024, 82, (3), 243-244

2023

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

2022

4. Giovanni Maria Giorgi (1947–2021) OBITUARY
   METRON, 2022, 80, (1), 1-2

2021

5. 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

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

2019

7. 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)
8. Multidimensional Nation Wellbeing, More Equal yet More Polarized: An Analysis of the Progress of Human Development Since 1990
   Journal of Economic Development, 2019, 44, (1), 1-22 View citations (1)
   See also Working Paper Multidimensional Nation Wellbeing, More Equal yet More Polarized: An Analysis of the Progress of Human Development since 1990, Working Papers (2018) View citations (2) (2018)
9. 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

10. 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

11. 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

12. 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)
13. Evidence of Convergence Clubs Using Mixture Models
    Econometric Reviews, 2016, 35, (7), 1317-1342 View citations (8)
14. 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)

2015

15. 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

16. 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

17. Hierarchical Modelling of Disparities in Preferences for Redistribution
    Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 2013, 75, (4), 556-584 View citations (19)

2012

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

2010

19. 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)
20. MIXTURE MODELS, CONVERGENCE CLUBS, AND POLARIZATION
    Review of Income and Wealth, 2010, 56, (1), 102-122 View citations (39)

2009

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

2006

23. 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)
24. 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)
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)

2004

26. 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)

2002

27. SEASONALITY, PRODUCTIVITY SHOCKS, AND SECTORAL COMOVEMENTS IN A REAL BUSINESS CYCLE MODEL FOR ITALY
    Macroeconomic Dynamics, 2002, 6, (3), 337-356 View citations (5)

2001

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

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