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Curriculum Vitae
Vitorocco Peragine, PhD
Vitorocco Peragine is currently an Associate Professor of Public Economics at the University of Bari.
Previously he has held the position of Lecturer in Economics at the University "Carlos III" of Madrid (19992001). He holds a Ph.D. in Economics at the University of York (U.K.).
His main expertises are in the area of public economics, particularly in the field of distributional analysis,
social policy, economics of education, labour economics, fiscal federalism. His research work has been also
published in the Journal of Public Economics, the Journal of Economic Surveys, Mathematical Social
Sciences, Social Choice and Welfare, Economica, the Journal of Economic Inequality.
He has been a consultant for public institutions such as the World Bank, the European Commission, the
Department for Regional Policies and the Department for Rights and Equal Opportunities in the Italian
Prime Minister Office and for other national and local institutions.
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Current position
Associate Professor of Public Economics, Department of Economics, University of Bari.
Career
∙ September 2001 - present: Associate Professor of Public Economics, Department of Economics,
University of Bari
∙ March 2001 - August 2001: Lecturer in Economics, Department of Economics, University of Bari
∙ September 1999 - February 2001: Lecturer in Economics, Department of Economics, University "Carlos
III", Madrid.
Education
∙ Ph.D. in Economics, University of York (U.K.), 2000.
∙ M.Sc. in Economics, University of York (U.K.), 1996.
∙ Degree magna cum laude in Economics and Business, University of Bari (Italy), 1995.
Selected publications
. "Ex ante versus ex post equality of opportunity" (with Fleurbaey M.) In Economica (forthcoming)
. "Compensation, reward and the measurement of unfair inequalities", (with P. Brunori) Research on
Economic Inequality, vol. 19, 2011.
. "Inequality of educational opportunity in Italy: how fair is the “3+2” reform" (with Brunori P, Serlenga L). In
Giornale Degli Economist (forthcoming).
. "The returns to tertiary education in Italy and Europe" (with Luongo P, Serlenga L). In Giornale Degli
Economist (forthcoming).
. "Measuring long-term inequality of opportunity" (with R. Aaberge and M. Mogstad) in Journal of Public
Economics, Volume 95, Issues 3-4, Pages 193-204.
. Review of "Measuring Inequality of Opportunities in Latin America and the Caribbean" by Ricardo Paes de
Barros, Francisco H. G. Ferreira, José R. Molinas Vega, and Jaime Saavedra Chanduvi. In Journal of Economic
Inequality, 2011, Volume 9, Number 1, Pages 137-143.
∙ "Inequality of opportunity in taly" (con D. Checchi), in Journal of Economic Inequality, 2010, Volume 8,
Number 4, Pages 429-450
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∙ "Income inequality and opportunity inequality in Italy and in Europe" (con D. Checchi e L. Serlenga), in
Rivista di Politca Economica, 2009.
∙ "Esiste l'uguaglianza delle opportunità in Italia?" (con D. Checchi) in La rivista delle Politche Sociali - The
Italian Journal of Social Policy, Vol. 2, 2008, pp.81-108.
∙ "Higher education and equality of opportunity in Italy" (with L. Serlenga) in J. Bishop and B. Zheng (eds.)
Research in Economic Inequality Vol XIV, 2008;
∙ "Deprivation and social exclusion" (with C. D'Ambrosio and W. Bossert) in Economica, Vol 1, 2008;
∙ "Measuring autonomy freedom" (with S. Bavetta), in Social Choice and Welfare, Vol 26, n.1, pp. 31-46,
2006;
∙ "On Preference, freedom and diversity" (with Antonio Romero-Medina), in Social Choice and Welfare, Vol
27, n.1, pp. 29-40, 2006;
∙ "Ranking income distributions according to equality of opportunity", in Journal of Economic Inequality,
Vol. 2, n1, pp. 11-30, 2005;
∙ "Measuring and implementing equality of opportunity for income", in Social Choice and Welfare, Vol 22:
1-24, 2004;
∙ "Opportunity egalitarianism and income inequality: a rank-dependent approach", in Mathematcal Social
Sciences, , Vol 44, pp.45-64, 2002;
∙ "The Distribution and the Redistribution of Opportunities", in Journal of Economic Surveys, Vol 13, pp.
37-69, 1999;
∙ "Income Distributions and Equality of Opportunity", in H. de Swart (ed.) Logic, Game Theory and Social
Choice. Tilburg: Tilburg University Press, pp. 560 - 574, 1999.
. "Income inequality and opportunity inequality in Italy and in Europe" (with D. Checchi e L. Serlenga), in
Rivista di Politca Economica, 2009.
Books (in Italian)
1.In parti diseguali: povertà e disuguaglianza nel Lazio (with M. Paradiso), Roma, Carocci Editore, 2009.
2.Primo rapporto sull'esclusione e la povertà in Puglia (with F. Chiarello). Bari, Edizioni di Pagina, 2008.
3.Povertà e politiche di inclusione sociale in provincia di Bari. Bari, Edizioni di Pagina, 2008.
4.Responsabilità Sociale d'Impresa. Fondamenti teorici e strumenti di comunicazione (with M. Carrassi).
Milano, Franco Angeli, 2007.
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Visits to academic departments
∙ May 2009, CERSES , Universitè Paris Decartes, Parigi, France.
∙ May 2011, University of Oregon, Eugene (USA).
∙ February 2010, World Bank, Washington D.C.
∙ May 2009 and February 2011, CERSES , Universitè Paris Decartes, Parigi, France.
∙ April 2009, Statistics Norway, Oslo, Norway
∙ June 2003, Department of Economics, University of Montreal, Canada.
∙ May 2003, Department of Economics, University "Carlos III", Madrid, Spain.
∙ January 2001, Centre for Philosophy of Natural and Social Sciences, LSE, London, U.K.
Conferences and seminaries (recent)
November 2010, University of Oxford, OPHI, (U.K.). Conference on Inequality and welfare. Talk: "Measuring
Long-term inequality of opportunity"
September 2010, XXI Conference SIEP, Pavia, Italy. Talk: "Measuring Long-term inequality of opportunity".
June 2010, Korea University, Seoul (Korea). Conference on "Growth, inequality and poverty". Talk: "Fair and
unfair income inequality in Europe".
April 2010, Leuven (Belgio), Conference on "Welfare economics and equality of opportunity". Talk: "Fair and
unfair income inequality in Europe".
October 2009, Roma, Bank of Italy, Talk: "Poverty rankings of opportunity profiles"
July 2009, Buenos Aires (Argentina), III Meeting of the Society for the Study of Economic Inequality. Talk:
"Poverty rankings of opportunity profiles"
June 2009, University of Oxford (UK), Conference on "New directions in welfare". Talk: "Income inequality
and opportunity inequality in Europe".
January 2009, Canazei (Tn) "Winter school on inequality and collective choice", III edition, organized by the
Unversity of Verona. Talk "Measuring inequality of opportunity".
September 2008: II Meeting GRASS, Università di Bologna. Talk: "Poverty rankings of opportunity profiles"
September 2008 XX Conference SIEP, Pavia, Italy. Talk: "Poverty rankings of opportunity profiles"
Settember 2008, Tirana, Conference AQUIFALC. Talk (con C. Mastromarco, F. Russo, L. Serlenga): Social
exlcusion in Albania.
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July 2008: IX Conference della Society for Social Choice and Welfare (Montreal, Canada). Talk: "Poverty
rankings of opportunity profiles".
Dicember 2007: Conference "An opportunity for equality of opportunity", Milano, Università Cattolica
"Sacro Cuore". Talk (con L. Serlenga):"Higher education and equality of opportunity in taly"
Dicember 2007: Conference "An opportunity for equality of opportunity", Milano, Università Cattolica
"Sacro Cuore". Talk (con D. Checchi):"Inequality of opportunity in Italy"
Settember 2007: I Meeting GRASS, Università di Siena. Relazione: "Higher education and equality of
opportunity in taly".
September 2007 XIX Conference SIEP, Pavia, Italy. Talk (con L. Serlenga): "Higher education and equality of
opportunity in taly".
July 2007: II Meeting della Society for the Study of Economic Inequality, Berlino. Talk: "Higher education and
equality of opportunity in taly"
July 2006, VIII Conference of the Society for Social Choice and Welfare (Instanbul, Turchia). Talk: "The
horizontal equity principle in a federal context.
∙ January 2006: Dipartimento Politiche di Coesione e Sviluppo, Conference on "Sviluppo, Equità.
Federalismo" (Roma). Talk: Il Principio di Equità Orizzontale in un Contesto Federale.
Teaching
∙ From 2001/2002: Public Economics and Economic Policy, University of Bari
∙ 2002-2003 and 2001-2002: Intermediate Microeconomics, University of Bari;
∙ 1999-2000 and 2000-2001: Intermediate Microeconomics and Public Economics, University Carlos III,
Madrid;
Other professional and scientific activities
∙ Member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Economic Inequality, Springer Netherlands.
∙ Director of the Centro Interdipartimentale di Ricerca sull'Etica Aziendale e Economica (CREEA), University
of Bari.
∙ Member of the Scientific Council of CHILD - Centre for Households, Income, Labour and Demography,
University of Turin.
∙ Member of the Scientific Council of Fondazione Giacomo Brodolini, Rome.
∙ Member of the Scientific Council of Econometica- Centre for the study of corporate social responsibility
and business ethics, University of Milano-Bicocca.
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∙ Member of the following professional organizations: Society for the study of Economic Inequality
(ECINEQ); International Institute of Public Finance, Society for Social Choice and Welfare, Societa' Italiana
degli Economisti, Societa' Italiana di Economia Pubblica.
∙ Referee for the following journals: American Economic Review, Economica ,International Review of
Economics and Business, Social Choice and Welfare, Journal of Public Economic Theory, Review of Income
and Wealth, Journal of Income Distribution, Journal of Economic Inequality.
∙ Chair, School of Economics (Presidente del Corso di Laurea in Economia e Commercio), Taranto,
University of Bari.
∙ Chair, Master degree in Economics of Public Administration, University of Bari.
∙ World Bank, Washington, D.C. (USA). Department of Latin American and Caribbean Region, Visiting
research fellow (February 2010).
∙ Department for Regional Policies, in the Italian Prime Minister Office: expert senior economist (2008).
∙ Department for Rights and Equal Opportunities, in the Prime Minister Office: expert senior economist
(2006-2008).
∙ Ministry of Economics and Finance: economic consultant on issues of inter-governmental grants and
fiscal federalism (2004-2006);
∙ Puglia Regional Government . Economic consultant on issues of fiscal federalism, policies for the youth
and social policy (2006-2011).
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