Franco Peracchi
Affiliation
Professor, Tor Vergata University.
Fellow, Einaudi Institute for Economics and Finance.
Fellow, Center for Household Income, Labour and Demographic Economics.
Education
Ph.D. (Economics), Princeton, 1987
M.Sc. (Econometrics and Mathematical Economics), LSE, 1983
Research Interests
Anthropometrics and Living Standards; Nonresponse and Measurement Error in Surveys; Social Security and Retirement.
Selected Publications
“Estimating income poverty in the presence of missing data and measurement error problems”, with C. Nicoletti and F. Foliano, Journal of Business and Economic Statistics, forthcoming.
“Height and the normal distribution: Evidence from Italian military data” with Brian A’Hearn and Giovanni Vecchi, Demography, 2009, 1-26.
“Height and economic development in Italy, 1730-1980″, American Economic Review, Papers & Proceedings, 2008, 475-481.
“The effects of income imputation on micro analyses: Evidence from the ECHP,” with C. Nicoletti, Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series A, 2006, 625-646.
“Drug compliance and health outcomes: Evidence from a panel of Italian patients,” with V. Atella, D. Depalo and C. Rossetti, Health Economics, 2006, 875-892.
“Survey response and survey characteristics: Micro-level evidence from the European Community Household Panel,” with C.Nicoletti, Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series A, 2005, 763-781.
Honors, Awards and Fellowships
Visiting Research Scholar, Princeton University, fall 2006. Editor of Labour.
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Contacts
Faculty of EconomicsTor Vergata UniversityI-00133 Rome, Italytel: +39 06 7259 5934tel: +39 06 7259 5645 (Assistant)
Web: http://www.economia.uniroma2.it/sefemeq/professori/peracchi
Phone: +39.06.4792.4690
E-mail: franco.peracchi[at]eief.it