Federico Belotti

Federico Belotti

Associate Professor of Econometrics

Department of Economics and Finance

University of Rome Tor Vergata

Welcome! I am an applied econometrician. My job is to develop and apply statistical tools for the quantitative analysis of actual economic phenomena. I am especially interested to panel/clustered data, robust estimation and getting more and more passionate about spatial and network econometrics. I have a broad range of applied interests and enjoy coding econometric tools that may help other researchers in their work.

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Interests
  • Microeconometrics methods
  • Spatial and networks econometrics
  • Health economics
Education
  • PhD in Econometrics and Empirical Economics, 2011

    University of Rome Tor Vergata

  • MSc in Economics (Quantitative methods), 2005

    University of Rome Tor Vergata

  • BSc in Economics, 2004

    University of Rome Tor Vergata

Research

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).

(2022). Nonparametric Penalized Spatial Modelling. Work in progress (first draft available soon).

(2019). Estimation of stochastic frontier models with spatial inefficiency. Work in progress.

CEIS research paper

Submitted

Under review

(2023). Estimation and Inference in the Presence of Neighborhood Unobservables. Reject & Resubmit at Journal of Econometrics.

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Publications

Journal articles

(2024). Coordination Failure in Experimental Banks of Different Sizes. Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Finance (forthcoming).

CEIS research paper

(2024). Lifetime costs of overweight and obesity in Italy. Economics and Human Biology.

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(2023). Simultaneous bandwidths determination for DK-HAC estimators and long-run variance estimation in nonparametric settings. Econometric Reviews.

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(2022). Psychotropic drug purchases during the COVID-19 pandemic in Italy and their relationship with mobility restrictions. Scientific Reports.

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(2022). Health Status and the Great Recession. Evidence from Electronic Health Records. Health Economics.

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(2022). LongITools. Dynamic longitudinal exposome trajectories in cardiovascular and metabolic noncommunicable diseases. Environmental Epidemiology.

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(2021). The return to preventing chronic disease in Europe and United States. The Journal of Human Capital.

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(2021). The future of the elderly population health status: Filling a knowledge gap. Health Economics.

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(2020). The effect of local taxes on firm performance: Evidence from geo‐referenced data. Journal of Regional Science.

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(2019). How health policy shapes healthcare sector productivity? Evidence from Italy and UK. Health Policy.

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(2018). Trends in Age-Related Disease Burden and Health Care Utilization. Aging Cell.

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(2018). Spatial Differencing: Estimation and Inference. CESifo Economic Studies.

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(2018). Consistent inference in fixed-effects stochastic frontier models. Journal of Econometrics.

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(2015). Excess body weight increases the burden of age-associated chronic diseases and their associated health care expenditures. Aging.

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(2015). Testing for time-invariant unobserved heterogeneity in generalized linear models for panel data. Journal of Econometrics.

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(2014). Measuring spatial effects in the presence of institutional constraints: The case of Italian Local Health Authority expenditure. Regional Science and Urban Economics.

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(2010). Technology adoption and innovation in public services the case of e-government in Italy. Information Economics and Policy.

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Software

Stata

(2024). Outlier Detection for Welfare Analysis. Stata Journal (forthcoming).

World Bank working paper

(2021). icio: Economic Analysis with Inter-Country Input-Output Tables in Stata. Stata Journal.

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(2017). Spatial panel-data models using Stata. Stata Journal.

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(2015). twopm: Two-part models. Stata Journal.

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(2013). Stochastic frontier analysis using Stata. Stata Journal.

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(2010). Translation from narrative text to standard codes variables with Stata. Stata Journal.

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Chapters

Life course inequality across generations

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

  • +39 06 72595621
  • Via Columbia, 2, Rome, Lazio - 00133
  • Enter Building B (Research) and take the stairs to Office 14 on Floor 2
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