Leonardo Lucchetti
Biographic Data
| ID | 6447475 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Leonardo Lucchetti |
| GIVEN NAMES | Leonardo |
| FAMILY NAME | Lucchetti |
| SIGNATURE | LUCCHETTI L |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6046-9941 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 64 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 8 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
What are the Poverty and Inequality Impacts of Fiscal Policy in Turkey?
Fiscal policy is central to not only \n macroeconomic stability and growth, but also to poverty and \n inequality reduction. This paper provides the most \n comprehensive assessment of the distributional incidence of \n Turkey’s fiscal policy to date. It analyzes the combined and \n individual incidence of direct and indirect taxes, \n transfers, and social spending and benchmarks Turkey’s \n achievements against peer countries. The results show …
Who Escaped Poverty and Who Was Left Behind? A Non-Parametric Approach to Explore Welfare Dynamics Using Cross-Sections
This paper proposes a non-parametric adaptation of a recently developed parametric technique to produce point estimates of intra-generational economic mobility in the absence of panel data sets that follow individuals over time. The method predicts past individual income or consumption using time-invariant observable characteristics, which allows the estimation of mobility into and out of poverty, as well as household-level income or consumption …
But …What Is The Poverty Rate Today? Testing Poverty Nowcasting Methods in Latin America and the Caribbean
Poverty estimates usually lag behind two years, which makes it difficult to provide real-time poverty analysis to assess the impact of economic crisis and shocks among the less well-off, and subsequently limits policy responses. This paper takes advantage of up-to-date average economic welfare indicators like the gross domestic product per capita and comprehensive harmonized micro data of more than 180 household surveys in 15 Latin American count…
Gone with the Storm
This paper identifies the negative consequences of the strongest tropical storm ever to strike Guatemala on household welfare. Per capita consumption fell in urban areas, raising poverty substantially. Households cut back on food consumption and basic durables, and attempted to cope by increasing their adult and child labour supply. The mechanisms at play include the intensity of the shock, food prices and the timing of Agatha with respect to loc…
Estimating poverty transitions using repeated cross-sections
Wars and child health
Rising Food Prices and Household Welfare
Food price inflation in Brazil in the twelve months to June 2008 was 18 percent, while overall inflation was seven percent. Using spatially disaggregated monthly data on consumer prices and two different household surveys, we estimate the welfare consequences of these food price increases, and their distribution across households. Because Brazil is a large food producer, with a predominantly wage-earning agricultural labor force, our estimates in…
Intra-Generational Mobility and Repeated Cross-Sections
This paper validates a recently proposed method to estimate intra-generational mobility through repeated cross-sectional surveys. The technique allows the creation of a "synthetic panel" -- done by predicting future or past household income using a set of simple modeling and error structure assumptions -- and thus permits the estimation of lower and upper bounds on directional mobility measures. The authors validate the approach in three differen…
Rising Food Prices and Household Welfare
Food price inflation in Brazil in the twelve months to June 2008 was 18 percent, while overall inflation was seven percent. Using spatially disaggregated monthly data on consumer prices and two different household surveys, we estimate the welfare consequences of these food price increases, and their distribution across households. Because Brazil is a large food producer, with a predominantly wage-earning agricultural labor force, our estimates in…
Intra-Generational Mobility and Repeated Cross-Sections
This paper validates a recently proposed method to estimate intra-generational mobility through repeated cross-sectional surveys. The technique allows the creation of a "synthetic panel" -- done by predicting future or past household income using a set of simple modeling and error structure assumptions -- and thus permits the estimation of lower and upper bounds on directional mobility measures. The authors validate the approach in three differen…
Wars and child health
Estimating poverty transitions using repeated cross-sections
Who Escaped Poverty and Who Was Left Behind? A Non-Parametric Approach to Explore Welfare Dynamics Using Cross-Sections
This paper proposes a non-parametric adaptation of a recently developed parametric technique to produce point estimates of intra-generational economic mobility in the absence of panel data sets that follow individuals over time. The method predicts past individual income or consumption using time-invariant observable characteristics, which allows the estimation of mobility into and out of poverty, as well as household-level income or consumption …
But …What Is The Poverty Rate Today? Testing Poverty Nowcasting Methods in Latin America and the Caribbean
Poverty estimates usually lag behind two years, which makes it difficult to provide real-time poverty analysis to assess the impact of economic crisis and shocks among the less well-off, and subsequently limits policy responses. This paper takes advantage of up-to-date average economic welfare indicators like the gross domestic product per capita and comprehensive harmonized micro data of more than 180 household surveys in 15 Latin American count…
Gone with the Storm
This paper identifies the negative consequences of the strongest tropical storm ever to strike Guatemala on household welfare. Per capita consumption fell in urban areas, raising poverty substantially. Households cut back on food consumption and basic durables, and attempted to cope by increasing their adult and child labour supply. The mechanisms at play include the intensity of the shock, food prices and the timing of Agatha with respect to loc…
What are the Poverty and Inequality Impacts of Fiscal Policy in Turkey?
Fiscal policy is central to not only \n macroeconomic stability and growth, but also to poverty and \n inequality reduction. This paper provides the most \n comprehensive assessment of the distributional incidence of \n Turkey’s fiscal policy to date. It analyzes the combined and \n individual incidence of direct and indirect taxes, \n transfers, and social spending and benchmarks Turkey’s \n achievements against peer countries. The results show …
Economics (8 works) · Income, Poverty, and Inequality (7 works) · Economic growth (6 works) · Poverty (6 works) · Welfare (6 works) · Development economics (4 works) · Fiscal Policy and Economic Growth (4 works) · Agricultural risk and resilience (3 works) · Econometrics (3 works) · Geography (3 works)