IZA World of Labor - Lucia Mangiavacchi

Lucia Mangiavacchi

University of Perugia, Italy, and IZA, Germany

IZA World of Labor role

Author

Current position

Assistant Professor, University of Perugia, Italy

Research interest

Labor and demographic economics, family economics, development economics, public economics

Website

https://sites.google.com/view/luciamangiavacchi

Positions/functions as a policy advisor

Consultant to UNU-WIDER (2015–2016); Consultant to Israeli National Insurance Institute (2009–2012); Consultant to Institute for Fiscal Studies (Madrid) (2009–2011); Consultant to United Nation Development Program (2009–2011); Consultant to European Parliament (2009–)

Past positions

Associate Professor, Department of Applied Economics, University of the Balearic Islands, Spain (2013–); Assistant Professor, Department of Applied Economics, University of the Balearic Islands (2011–2013); Research Fellow, Microsimula Unit, Paris School of Economics (2010–2011)

Qualifications

PhD Development Economics, University of Florence, 2010

Selected publications

"Women and poverty: Insights from individual consumption in Albania." Review of Economics of the Household (Forthcoming) (with G. Betti and L. Piccoli).
"Keeping inequality at home: The genesis of gender roles in housework." Labour Economics 58 (2019): 52–68
“Intrahousehold distribution in migrant-sending families.” Journal of Demographic Economics 84 (2018): 107–148 (with F. Perali and L. Piccoli).
“Parental alcohol consumption and adult children's educational attainment.” Economics & Human Biology 28 (2018): 132–145 (with L. Piccoli).
“Optimal taxation, social preferences and the four worlds of welfare capitalism in Europe.” Economica 82 (2015): 448–485 (with A. Spadaro and L. Piccoli).

Family structure and children’s educational attainment in transition economies

Access to education has been hampered by economic and family shocks in south-east Europe and countries of the former Soviet Union

Lucia Mangiavacchi, October 2016

Compared to developing economies, European transition economies had high levels of human capital when their transitions began, but a lack of resources and policies to protect poor families hampered children’s access to education, especially for non-compulsory school grades. Different phenomena associated with transition also negatively affected children’s education: e.g. parental absence due to migration, health problems, and alcohol abuse. These findings call for a greater policy focus on education and for monitoring of the schooling progress of children in special family circumstances.
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