My research focuses on the evaluation of social justice in the distribution of outcomes while respecting individual preferences.
Publications
2025
Relative Multi-Dimensional Poverty Measurement and Deaton's Distance Function. The Journal of Economic Inequality. (with F. Maniquet)
Inequality decomposition analysis, the Lorenz curve and the Gini coefficient. Social Choice and Welfare. (with M. Fleurbaey, P. Lambert, V. Peragine)
Inequality of opportunity in a multiperiod framework. Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics (with F. Palmisano, V. Peragine) - forthcoming see working paper.
2023
Fairness and Gini decomposition. Economic Letters
Inequality of opportunity, poverty, and economic development (with Flaviana Palmisano and Vito Peragine). In M.N. Asadullah, K. Zimmermann (eds.) Handbook of Labor, Human Resources and Population Economics, Springer, chapter 11, ISBN: 978-3-319-57365-6 .
2020
Review of Matthew D. Adler, Measuring Social Welfare: An Introduction. The Journal of Economic Inequality.
2017
Il ruolo della distanza psichica e dell'inquinamento acustico nei processi di scelta dei punti-vendita. Esperienze d'Impresa. (with Rizzo, C., Di Giuseppe, M., Pizzi, S., Portaluri, M., & Guido, G)
Working papers
2025 - "Economic development and inequality of opportunity: Kuznets meets the Great Gatsby?" (with F. Ferreira and V. Peragine, forthcoming UNU-WIDER Working Paper)
2025 - " A new class of decomposable inequality measures" (with O. Sterck)
2024 - "Measuring inequality and welfare when some inequalities matter more than others" (with M. Fleurbaey and V. Peragine)
2024 - "Biases in inequality of opportunity estimates: measures and solutions" (with P. Brunori and P. Salas-Rojo)
2023 - "Equality of opportunity in many-to-one matching markets" (with Salman U.)
2023 - " Trust in institutions and the profile of inequality: a worldwide perspective " (with Palmisano F.)
2022 - "Nonparametric Analysis of Heterogeneous Multidimensional Fairness" (with De Rock B.)
2022 - "On the measurement of well-being with reference consumption" (with Maniquet F.)
Ongoing projects
Poverty and Opportunities (with V. Peragine, X. Ramos, D. Van de gaer)
Measuring intersectionality (with K. Bosmans and E. Ozturk)
Is health migration a rational choice? Evidence from Italy (with R. Lagravinese)
Bridging Social Norms: A Framework for Assessing Unjust Inequality (with V. De Sandi and V. Peragine)