Federico Belotti
Associate Professor of Econometrics
Department of Economics and Finance
University of Rome Tor Vergata
About
I’m an applied econometrician interested in the development and application of statistical methods for the analysis of real-world economic phenomena.
My research focuses on panel data, robust estimation, and causal inference in the presence of spatial and network structures. Alongside methodological work, I pursue a broad range of applied interests and develop open-source tools to promote reproducible, accessible, and policy-relevant empirical research.
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Research
Work in progress
(2024).
Poverty Lines and Spatial Differences in the Cost of Living.
Work in progress.
(2024).
Minimum Hellinger estimation of Stochastic Frontier models.
Work in progress (first draft available soon).
(2024).
Grouped patterns of heterogeneity across time and space: A hierarchical clustering approach.
Work in progress (first draft available soon).
(2024).
Robust estimation and the impact of outliers on causal Inference.
Work in progress (first draft available soon).
(2024).
Treatment Spillover Effects with Group Size Variation: Evidence from Lesotho.
Work in progress (first draft available soon).
(2019).
Estimation of stochastic frontier models with spatial inefficiency.
Work in progress.
Submitted
Under review
(2025).
Estimation and Inference in the Presence of Neighborhood Unobservables.
R&R at Journal of Econometrics.
Publications
Journal articles
(2025).
Imposing monotonicity in stochastic frontier models: an iterative nonlinear least squares procedure.
Computational Economics (forthcoming).
(2024).
Coordination Failure in Experimental Banks of Different Sizes.
Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Finance.
(2024).
Lifetime costs of overweight and obesity in Italy.
Economics and Human Biology.
(2023).
Simultaneous bandwidths determination for DK-HAC estimators and long-run variance estimation in nonparametric settings.
Econometric Reviews.
(2022).
Psychotropic drug purchases during the COVID-19 pandemic in Italy and their relationship with mobility restrictions.
Scientific Reports.
(2022).
Health Status and the Great Recession. Evidence from Electronic Health Records.
Health Economics.
(2022).
LongITools. Dynamic longitudinal exposome trajectories in cardiovascular and metabolic noncommunicable diseases.
Environmental Epidemiology.
(2021).
The return to preventing chronic disease in Europe and United States.
The Journal of Human Capital.
(2021).
The future of the elderly population health status: Filling a knowledge gap.
Health Economics.
(2020).
The effect of local taxes on firm performance: Evidence from geo‐referenced data.
Journal of Regional Science.
(2019).
How health policy shapes healthcare sector productivity? Evidence from Italy and UK.
Health Policy.
(2018).
Trends in Age-Related Disease Burden and Health Care Utilization.
Aging Cell.
(2018).
Spatial Differencing: Estimation and Inference.
CESifo Economic Studies.
(2018).
Consistent inference in fixed-effects stochastic frontier models.
Journal of Econometrics.
(2017).
Drug therapy adherence and health outcomes in the presence of physician and patient unobserved heterogeneity.
Health Economics.
(2017).
Smallholder productivity and weather shocks: Adoption and impact of widely promoted agricultural practices in Tanzania.
Food Policy.
(2015).
Excess body weight increases the burden of age-associated chronic diseases and their associated health care expenditures.
Aging.
(2015).
Testing for time-invariant unobserved heterogeneity in generalized linear models for panel data.
Journal of Econometrics.
(2014).
Measuring spatial effects in the presence of institutional constraints: The case of Italian Local Health Authority expenditure.
Regional Science and Urban Economics.
(2010).
Technology adoption and innovation in public services the case of e-government in Italy.
Information Economics and Policy.
Software
Stata
(2024).
Outlier Detection for Welfare Analysis.
Stata Journal.
(2021).
icio: Economic Analysis with Inter-Country Input-Output Tables in Stata.
Stata Journal.
(2020).
Fast leave-one-out methods for inference, model selection, and diagnostic checking.
Stata Journal.
(2017).
Spatial panel-data models using Stata.
Stata Journal.
(2015).
twopm: Two-part models.
Stata Journal.
(2013).
Stochastic frontier analysis using Stata.
Stata Journal.
(2010).
Translation from narrative text to standard codes variables with Stata.
Stata Journal.
Prize and awards
Best Italian Ph.D. thesis in Applied Statistics and Demography
Prize awarded at the 46th Italian Statistical Society Scientific Meeting
Best “Young Researcher” Paper
Prize awarded for the paper Consistent Estimation of the True Fixed-effects Stochastic Frontier Model at the XII European Workshop on Efficiency and Productivity Analysis
Contact
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- Via Columbia, 2, Rome, Lazio - 00133
- Enter Building B (Research) and take the stairs to Office 14 on Floor 2
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