Maria Grazia Pittau

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My main interests are Income distribution, inequality, poverty, and polarization;
Nonparametric estimation and Mixture Models;
Missing Data and Multilevel Models.

Me and my favorite coauthor Roberto!

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Technical Reports

Maria Grazia Pittau, Roberto Zelli and Paul A. Johnson, ''Mixture Models and Convergence Clubs". Paper available at: http://ideas.repec.org/p/vas/papers/91.html

Andrew Gelman, Aleks Jakulin, Maria Grazia Pittau and Yu-Sung Su "A default prior distribution for logistic and other regression models". Paper available at:
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1010421#PaperDownload

Selected Papers

Riccardo Massari, Maria Grazia Pittau and Roberto Zelli, (2008), ''A dwindling middle class? Italian evidence in the 2000's", forthcoming on The Journal of Economic Inequality.

Maria Grazia Pittau and Roberto Zelli, (2007), ''Exploring patterns of income polarization using siZer'', Journal of Quantitative Economics, 5, 101--111.

Maria Grazia Pittau and N. T. Longford (2006), "Stability of household income in European countries in the 1990", Computational Statistics & Data Analysis, 51, 1364--1383.

P.L. Conti, Maria Grazia Pittau and R. Zelli (2006), "Metodi non parametrici nell'analisi della distribuzione del reddito: problemi empirici ed aspetti metodologici'' (in italian with english summary), Rivista di Politica Economica.

Maria Grazia Pittau and Roberto Zelli (2006), "Trends in Income Distribution in Italy: A Non-Parametric and a Semi-Parametric Analysis", Journal of Income distribution, 15, 90--118.

Maria Grazia Pittau and Roberto Zelli (2006), "Empirical Evidence of Income Dynamics Across EU Regions", Journal of Applied Econometrics, 21, 605--628.

Maria Grazia Pittau and Roberto Zelli (2005), "Fitting Regional Income Distributions in the European Union", 2005, Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 67, 2.

Maria Grazia Pittau and Roberto Zelli (2004), "Testing for the changes in the shape of income distribution: Italian evidence in the 1990s from kernel density estimates, Empirical Economics, 29, 2.

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