Recent (2013-24) Publications in Refereed Journals:
“Home-ownership in Europe: How did it happen?”, 2013, Advances in Life Course Research 18 83–90 (with V. Angelini and Anne Laferrère)
“Life insurance investment and stock market participation in Europe”, 2013, Advances in Life Course Research, 18, 91–106 (with D. Cavapozzi and E. Trevisan)
“Voluntary Private Health Care Insurance Among the Over Fifties: A Comparative Analysis of SHARE Data”, 2013, Health Economics, 22(3) 289–315 (with O. Paccagnella and V. Rebba)
“The Dynamics of Homeownership among the 50+ in Europe”, 2014, Journal of Population Economics, 27(3) 797-823 DOI number 10.1007/s00148-013-0477-5 (with V. Angelini and A. Brugiavini)
" 'I Want to Break Free'. The Role of Working Conditions on Retirement Expectations and Decisions", 2015, European Journal of Ageing 12:17–28, DOI 10.1007/s10433-014-0326-8 (with C. Dal Bianco and E. Trevisan)
“Books Are Forever: Early Life Conditions, Education and Lifetime Income”, 2017, Economic Journal, 127, 271-196. DOI 10.1111/ecoj.12307 (with Giorgio Brunello and Cristoph Weiss)
“Retirement and cognitive decline: A longitudinal analysis using SHARE data”, 2017, Journal of Health Economics, 56, 113-125. DOI:10.1016/j.jhealeco.2017.09.003 (with M. Celidoni and C. Dal Bianco).
“Work, Retirement and Muscle Strength Loss in Old Age”, 2018, Health Economics, 27, 115-128. DOI:10.1002/hec.3517 (with Marco Bertoni and Stefania Maggi)
“Depressive symptoms and muscle weakness: A two-way relation?”, 2018, Experimental Gerontology, 108, 87–91. DOI: 10.1016/j.exger.2018.04.001 (with Marco Bertoni, Stefania Maggi, Enzo Manzato and Nicola Veronese)
“The contributions of paradata and features of respondents, interviewers, and survey agencies to panel cooperation in SHARE”, 2019, Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series A, DOI: 10.1111/rssa.12391 (with J. Bristle, M. Celidoni and C. Dal Bianco)
“Retirement and Healthy Eating”, 2020, Fiscal Studies, 41(1), 199–219, https://doi.org/10.1111/1475-5890.12196 (with M. Celidoni, C. Dal Bianco, V. Rebba)
“Do you need less money in retirement?” 2020, Economics Letters, 189. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.econlet.2020.109026 (with M. Celidoni)
“How did European retirees respond to the COVID-19 pandemic?” 2021, Economics Letters, 203, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.econlet.2021.109853 (with M. Bertoni, M. Celidoni and C. Dal Bianco)
“The Long-Term Consequences of a Golden Nest: Socio-Economic Status in Childhood and the Age at Leaving Home”, 2022, Demography, https://doi.org/10.1215/00703370-9940728 (joint with V. Angelini and M. Bertoni).
“The economic impact of the first wave of the pandemic on 50+ Europeans”, 2023, Empirical Economics 18; 1-53 https://doi.org/10.1007/s00181-022-02349-8 (with A. Bonfatti, G. Pesaresi and N. Zambon) – formerly SHARE WP 74-2021.
“Online health information seeking and Covid-19 vaccine hesitancy”, 2023, Health Policy, 138, 104942, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.healthpol.2023.104942 (with F. Principe)
“Social security and retirement around the world: lessons from a long-term collaboration”, 2024, Journal of Pension Economics and Finance, 1–23 https://10.1017/S1474747223000215 (with C. Coile, D. Wise, A. Börsch-Supan and others)
Key Publications (1989-2012):
“Intertemporal Substitution, Risk Aversion and the Euler Equation for Consumption”, 1989, Economic Journal Supplement, 99, 59-73 (awarded the Royal Economic Society prize 1989-90) (with O.P. Attanasio).
“A Microeconomic Expenditure-Based Measure of Britain's Black Economy”, 1989, Journal of Public Economics, 39, 17-32 (with C.A. Pissarides).
“What Do We Learn On Consumer Demand Patterns From Micro data?”, 1993, American Economic Review, 83(3), 570-97 (with R. Blundell and P. Pashardes).
“Consumption Growth, the Interest Rate and Aggregation”, 1993, Review of Economic Studies, 60(3), 631-50 (with O.P. Attanasio).
“The UK Consumption Boom of the Late Eighties”, 1994, Economic Journal, 104, 1269-1302 (with O.P. Attanasio).
“Is Consumption Growth Consistent with Intertemporal Optimization? Evidence from the Consumer Expenditure Survey”, 1995, Journal of Political Economy, 103(6), 1121-1157 (with O.P. Attanasio)
“Intertemporal Non-Separability or Liquidity Constraints? A Disaggregate Analysis on US Panel Data”, 1996, Econometrica, 64(5), 1151-81 (with C. Meghir)
“Intertemporal Consumption, Durables and Liquidity Constraints: A Cohort Analysis”, 1997, European Economic Review, 41, 37-59 (short-listed for the 1998 Hicks-Tinbergen medal) (with R. Alessie and M. Devereux)
“Humps and Bumps in Lifetime Consumption”, 1999, Journal of Business & Economic Statistics, 17(1), 22-35 (with O. P. Attanasio, J. Banks and C. Meghir)
“The Italian Recession of 1993: Aggregate Implications of Microeconomic Evidence”, 1999, Review of Economics and Statistics, 81(2), 237-249 (with R. Miniaci).
“What Do We Learn from Recall Consumption Data?”, 2003 Journal of Human Resources, 38(2), 354-385 (with E. Battistin and R. Miniaci)
“Asking Consumption Questions in General Purpose Surveys” , 2003, Economic Journal, 113(491), F540-F587 (with M. Browning and T. F. Crossley)
“Consumer Credit: Evidence from Italian Micro Data”, 2005, Journal of the European Economic Association, 3(1), 144-178 (with R. Alessie and S. Hochguertel)
“Are Household Portfolios Efficient? An Analysis Conditional on Housing”, 2008, Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, 43(2). 401–432 (with L. Pelizzon)
“Changes in Compulsory Schooling, Education and the Distribution of Wages in Europe", 2009, Economic Journal, 119, 516-539 (with G. Brunello and M. Fort)
“Ageing and Unused Capacity in Europe: Is There an Early Retirement Trap?”, 2009, Economic Policy, 59, 463-508 (with V. Angelini and A. Brugiavini)
"The Retirement Consumption Puzzle: Evidence from a Regression Discontinuity Approach," 2009, American Economic Review, 99(5), 2209-2226 (with E. Battistin, A. Brugiavini, and E. Rettore).
“Consumption and Saving: Models of Intertemporal Allocation and Their Implications for Public Policy”, 2010, Journal of Economic Literature, 48, 693-751 (with O. P. Attanasio).