Publications and Working Papers
International Variation in Inequality of Opportunity: Insights from 72 Countries (2026 with Francisco Ferreira, Vito Peragine, Pedro Salas-Rojo, et al.)
Heat and learning inequality: evidence from Italy (2026 with Giacomo Negrisolo, Emanuele Fedeli, Ilaria Lopresti, Moris Triventi and Annaelena Valentini)
Mapping mobility and opportunity: how place, gender, and ethnicity shape economic outcomes in Ecuador (2026 with Diego del Pozo, H. Xavier Jara and Lorena Moreno)
Playing the birth lottery in Europe (2026 with A. Valentini, F. H. G. Ferreira, and P. Salas Rojo)
Misperceiving inequality and its roots: cross-country evidence from Europe (2025 with Victoria Hünewaldt)
Biases in inequality of opportunity estimates: measures and solutions (2024 with Domenico Moramarco and Pedro Salas-Rojo)
Estimating Inequality with Missing Incomes (2022 with Pedro Salas-Rojo and Paolo Verme)
Generative AI as Exam Evaluation Copilot (2026 with Leonardo Boncinelli, Alessio Magnolfi, Giacomo Negrisolo and Eugenio Vicario)
Inherited inequality and the distribution of opportunities in the United States, China, India, and South Africa (2026 with Francisco Ferreira and Pedro Salas-Rojo)
An Atlas of Educational Inequality in Italy: Outcomes, Disparities and Opportunities (2026 with Emanuele Fedeli and Moris Triventi)
Inherited Inequality in Latin America (2025 with Francisco Ferreira, Guido Neidhöfer, Pedro Salas-Rojo and Louis Sirugue)
- Latest working paper version
- Forthcoming in Handbook of the Economics of Intergenerational Mobility, edited by Bhashkar Mazumder and Steven Durlauf
Polarization of Opportunity (2025 with Vanesa Jorda and Pedro Salas-Rojo)
Inherited inequality, meritocracy, and the purpose of economic growth (2024 with Francisco Ferreira)
- Latest working paper version
- Forthcoming in Oxford Handbook of Income Distribution and Economic Growth, edited by Gordon Anderson and Sanghamitra Bandyopadhyay, Oxford University Press
Inequality of opportunity and intergenerational persistence in Latin America (2023 with Francisco Ferreira and Guido Neidhöfer)
The roots of inequality: estimating inequality of opportunity from regression trees (2022 with Hufe and Mahler)
Income taxation and equity: new dominance criteria with a microsimulation application to Romania (2022 with Palmisano and Peragine)
Model-based Recursive Partitioning to Estimate Unfair Health Inequalities in the UK (2021 with Davillas, Jones and Scarchilli)
Prioritarianism and Equality of Opportunity (2021 with Ferreira and Peragine)
Cannabis Policy Changes and Adolescent Use (2021)
Distant and different? Lockdown and inequalities in Italy (2020)
Searching for the peak. Google Trends and Covid-19 in Italy (2020)
The Evolution of Inequality of Opportunity in Germany (2020)
Estimating intergenerational income mobility (2020)
Ranking populations in terms of health opportunity (2019)
French do it better. The distributive effect of introducing French family fiscal policies in Italy (2019)
Inequality of opportunity in Sub-Saharan Africa (2019)
Upward and downward bias in measuring opportunity (2018)
Consumption Dynamics and Inequality of Opportunity (2017)
The Perception of Inequality of Opportunity in Europe (2016)
Review of Heckman et al., The Myth of Achievement Tests (2016)
How to Measure Inequality of Opportunity: A Hands-On Guide (2016)
Review of Fishkin's Bottlenecks (2015)
Economic Growth and Equality of Opportunity (2014)
From Oil Subsidies to Social Benefits (2014)
Inequality of Opportunity, Income Inequality and Mobility (2013)
Opportunity-sensitive poverty measurement? (2013)
Fairness in education: Italian university before/after reform (2012)
Compensation, Reward, and the Measurement of Unfair Inequalities (2011)