Current Position

Researcher at Paris School of Economics - Microsimulation and Public Policies Analysis Unit (MICROSIMULA)

Description and Research Interests

Luca Piccoli is researcher at Paris School of Economics (Microsimulation and Public Policies Analysis Unit - MICROSIMULA). His research activity is devoted to public economics, economics of addiction, household economics, labour economics and economics of crime. Within the field of public economics, he works on several MICROSIMULA projects, studying the impacts of policy reforms on income distribution, labour supply and consumption choices through simulation techniques. He also works on alcohol consumption, addiction and consequences to the household members, both theoretically and empirically. He studies, using economic tools, the causality relationships and determinants of juvenile crime, both at the macro and micro level of analysis. He studies the phenomenon of unpaid family work both in terms of labour supply choices and of monetary evaluation. He studies the welfare of children using collective models as a theoretical framework.

Publication and working papers (links to downloadable papers coming soon)

“Redistribution and Polarization Impact of the European Redistribution Architecture: an Analysis Using Microsimulation Techniques”, with A. Spadaro and X. Olivier, forthcoming in Review of Income and Wealth.

“Size and Value of Unpaid Family Care Work in Europe”, with G. Giannelli and L. Mangiavacchi, IZA working paper n. , 2009.

“Intra-household inequality and child poverty in Albania”, with L. Mangiavacchi, ECINEQ working paper n. , 2009.

“The Passive Drinking Effect: Evidence from Italy”, with M. Menon and F. Perali, PSE working paper no. 2008-33.

“Dynamic Analysis of Addiction: Impatience and Heterogeneous Habits”, with S. Corradin and F. Perali, working paper series n. 27085, Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche, University of Verona, 2007.

Work in progress (links to downloadable papers coming soon)

“SYSIFF 2006 – A Microsimulation Model for the French Tax System”, with L. Canova and A. Spadaro, MIMEO, 2009.

“Addiction and Gateway Effect to Alcohol and Tobacco in Russia: an Analysis Using Longitudinal Data”, with D. Aristei, work in progress, 2009.

“Consumption Demand and Discrete Labour Supply: an Unifying Framework”, with Amedeo Spadaro, work in progress, 2009.

“The Determinants of Juvenile Crime in Italy: a Macroeconomic Analysis using Regional Data”, work in progress, 2009.

“An ex-ante impact evaluation of the implementation of the Revenu de Solidarité Active by microsimulation techniques”, with L. Canova and A. Spadaro, MIMEO, 2009.

“The Model of Extended Rational Addiction”, with F. Perali and K. R. Wangen, MIMEO, 2008.

“Heterogeneous Habits and the Extended Rational Addiction Model”, with F. Perali and K. R. Wangen, work in progress, 2008.

“Primal-Dual Estimation of a Linear Expenditure Demand System” with Q. Paris and F. Perali, MIMEO, 2006.

Books

“Laboratorio di Politica Economica, Benessere, Equilibrio Generale e Crescita Economica, (parte II)” with S. Corradin, E. Matteazzi and F. Perali, Tipografia La Rapida, Verona, 2005.

(Last updated: November 2009)