Mr. Domenico Depalo | Economia e Fertilità | Best Researcher Award
PhD at Banca D’Italia | Italy
Mr. Domenico Depalo is an accomplished Italian economist whose extensive body of research spans labor economics, health economics, and applied econometrics, reflecting a deep engagement with the quantitative study of public policy, inequality, and individual behavior in economic systems. His publications demonstrate methodological rigor and policy relevance, addressing complex issues in labor market dynamics, wage inequality, and public-private sector comparisons. His influential works include Air Pollution and Workplace Accidents: Evidence and Implications, Your Season of Birth Tells Much of You and Your Background: European Edition, The Increase in Earnings Inequality in Italy: The Role and Persistence of Atypical Contracts, Gloomy Expectations After the Invasion of Ukraine, Hiring Subsidies and Firm Growth: Some New Evidence from Italy, and Worker Flows and Reallocation During the Recovery. His contributions extend to pivotal studies such as Should the Daylight Saving Time Be Abolished? Evidence from Work Accidents in Italy, The Differential Impact by Gender of the COVID-19 Pandemic on the Labor Outcomes of Older Adults, Daylight Saving Time Policies Around the World: Diversity and Impact, True COVID-19 Mortality Rates from Administrative Data, Consistent Estimates of the Public/Private Wage Gap, Explaining the Causal Effect of Adherence to Medication on Cholesterol through the Marginal Patient, and The Side Effects on Health of a Recovery Plan in Italy: A Nonparametric Bounding Approach. He has also authored Identification Issues in the Public/Private Wage Gap with an Application to Italy, Drug Therapy Adherence and Health Outcomes in Presence of Physician and Patient Unobserved Heterogeneity, Understanding the Public Sector Pay Gap, and An Evaluation of the Policies on Repayment of Government’s Trade Debt in Italy. His earlier contributions such as Public-Private Wage Differentials in Euro Area Countries: Evidence from Quantile Decomposition Analysis, Measuring Spatial Effects in Presence of Institutional Constraints: The Case of Italian Local Health Authority Expenditure, The Food Price Changes and Poverty in Zambia: An Empirical Assessment Using Household Microdata, and Drug Compliance, Co-Payment and Health Outcomes: Evidence from a Panel of Italian Patients showcase his consistent focus on empirical validation and social welfare implications. Collectively, his scholarly output stands as a significant contribution to contemporary applied econometrics and evidence-based economic policymaking.
Featured Publications:
Giordano, R., Depalo, D., Coutinho Pereira, M., Eugène, B., Papapetrou, E., & others. (2011). The public sector pay gap in a selection of euro area countries. ECB Working Paper.
Depalo, D., Faini, R., & Venturini, A. (2006). The social assimilation of immigrants. CEPR Discussion Paper.
Depalo, D., Giordano, R., & Papapetrou, E. (2015). Public–private wage differentials in euro-area countries: Evidence from quantile decomposition analysis. Empirical Economics, 49(3), 985–1015.
Atella, V., Peracchi, F., Depalo, D., & Rossetti, C. (2006). Drug compliance, co‐payment and health outcomes: Evidence from a panel of Italian patients. Health Economics, 15(9), 875–892.
Campos, M. M., Depalo, D., Papapetrou, E., Pérez, J. J., & Ramos, R. (2017). Understanding the public sector pay gap. IZA Journal of Labor Policy, 6(1), Article 7.