Resultados de los Proyectos

D’Agostino, A., Navarro, M., Neri, L., & Sánchez, A. (2025). Household’s Economic Insecurity in Italy and Spain: A Multidimensional Approach. In A. Pollice & P. Mariani (eds.), Methodological and Applied Statistics and Demography II. Springer. (pp. 404-409). ISBN 9783031643491. https://link.springer.com/book/9783031643491

Sánchez, A., D’Agostino, A., Giusti, C., & Potsi, A. (2024). Measuring child vulnerability to poverty: Material and psychosocial deprivation. Socio-Economic Planning Sciences, 91, 101794. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.seps.2023.101794

Crescenzi, F., & Neri, L. (2024). Estimating fuzzy measures of deprivation at local level in Tuscany. Quality & Quantity. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11135-023-01679-8

Sánchez, A. (2023). Economic and social prosperity in time of COVID-19 crisis in the European Union (Chapter 11). In V. Jakupec, M. Kelly and M. de Percy (eds.), COVID-19 and Foreign Aid. Nationalism and Global Development in a New World Order. Routledge. ISBN 9781032227115. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003273844

Moro-Egido, A.I. & Navarro, M. (2023). Child material deprivation: within region disparities by degree of urbanization. Regional Studies. https://doi.org/10.1080/00343404.2022.2153824

Betti, G., D’Agostino, A., Lemmi, A., & Neri, L. (2023). The fuzzy approach to poverty measurement (Chapter 45). In J. Silber (ed.), Research Handbook on Measuring Poverty and Deprivation. Edward Edgar Publishing (pp. 489–500). https://doi.org/10.4337/9781800883451

Sánchez, A., & Jiménez-Fernández, E. (2023). European Union Cohesion Policy: socio-economic vulnerability of the regions and the COVID-19 shock. Applied Research in Quality of Life. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11482-022-10116-1

D’Agostino, A., Deluca, G., & Guégan, D. (2022). Estimating Lower Tail Dependence Between Pairs of Poverty Dimensions in Europe. The Review of Income and Wealth. https://doi.org/10.1111/roiw.12565

Erdoğan E., Ferrer-Sapena, A., Sánchez-Pérez, E.A., & Jiménez-Fernández, E. (2022), Index spaces and standard indices in metric modelling. Nonlinear Analysis: Modelling and Control, 27(4), 803-822. https://doi.org/10.15388/namc.2022.27.27493

Jiménez-Fernández, E., Sánchez, A., & Ortega-Pérez, M. (2022). Dealing with weighting scheme in composite indicators: an unsupervised distance-machine learning proposal for quantitative data. Socio-Economic Planning Sciences, 83, 101339. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.seps.2022.101339

Smedsvik, B., Iacono, R., & D’Agostino, A. (2022). Immigration and social assistance: Evidence from the Norwegian welfare state. Social and Policy Administration, 56(4), 648-660. https://doi.org/10.1111/spol.12785

Jiménez-Fernández, E., Sánchez, A., & Sánchez-Pérez, E. (2022). Unsupervised machine learning approach for building composite indicators with fuzzy metrics. Expert Systems with Applications, 200, 116927. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eswa.2022.116927

Sánchez, A., & Navarro, M. (2021). Child poverty and government social spending in the European Union during the economic crisis. In C. Perna, (eds.), N. Salvati & F. Chirripa, Book of Short Papers SIS2021. Pearson. (pp. 442-447) https://it.pearson.com/content/dam/region-core/italy/pearson-italy/pdf/Docenti/Universit%C3%A0/pearson-sis-book-2021-parte-1.pdf

D’Agostino, A., Ghellini, G., Navarro, M., & Sánchez, A. (2021). Overview of the Quality of Life in Europe. In G. Betti & A. Lemmi (eds.), Analysis of Socio-Economic Conditions: Insights from a Fuzzy Multidimensional Approach. Routledge. ISBN 9780367514068. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003053712

Sánchez, A., & Navarro, M. (2021). Public Policies of Welfare State and Child Poverty in the European Union. Sustainability, 13(5), 2725. https://doi.org/10.3390/su13052725

Angeles Sánchez organised and chaired the Special Session “Well-being and Quality of Life at Local Level: Conceptual Approaches, Measurement, and Horizontal Inequalities” at the ISQOLS 23rd Annual Conference, Luxembourg, 22-25 July 2025. Seven papers were presented in two rounds of the special session by researchers from Italy, the Netherlands, Spain, Sweden, and the United States.
https://easychair.org/smart-program/ISQOLS2025AnnualConference/

Antonella D’Agostino organised and chaired the Special Session “Measuring poverty and subjective poverty” at the International Conference of the Italian Statistical Society, SIS 2025 Genoa (Italy), June 15-18, 2025.
https://sis2025.sis-statistica.it/

Antonella D’Agostino, Laura Neri, and Angeles Sánchez organised and chaired the Special Session “Financial insecurity and well-being: approaches to the concept, measurement, association with individual and macroeconomic (public policy) factors” at the ISQOLS 21st Annual Conference, Rotterdam (Netherlands), August 2023. Thirteen papers were presented in three rounds of the special session by researchers from China, France, Germany, Italy, Peru, Poland, the Netherlands, Spain, and the United States. https://easychair.org/smart-program/ISQOLS2023/index.html

Angeles Sánchez and Eduardo Jiménez-Fernández organized and chaired the Special Session “S03 Challenges in the construction of composite indicators for monitoring public policies” at the International Conference on Regional Science, 19-21 October 2022, Granada (Spain). Fifteen papers have been presented in four rounds of the special session S03, by researchers from Brazil, France, Italy, Slovenia, Spain and the United Kingdom.

https://reunionesdeestudiosregionales.org/granada2022/en/special-sessions/

https://reunionesdeestudiosregionales.org/granada2022/en/

Almagro-Azor, J.C. & Sánchez, A. Assessing Educational Poverty among 15-Year-Olds in the OECD Countries. CrossMED_2025 Granada (Spain), 9-11 December 2025.

Tavares, F, Ruiz-Martos, M.J. & Sánchez, A. Wage inequality across European Union regions: a longitudinal analysis with a focus on Mediterranean countries. CrossMED_2025 Granada (Spain), 9-11 December 2025.

Neri, L. & Regoli, A. How territorial and family settings shape the subjective poverty: the case of Lombardia, Toscana and Campania. SIS 2025 Genoa (Italy), 15-18 June, 2025

Hernández-Cervigón, P., Sánchez, A. & Giusti, C. Empirical Methods to Study Subjective Poverty: A Recent Review for Europe, . SIS 2025 Genoa (Italy), 15-18 June, 2025

Jiménez-Fernández, E. (2024). Composite indicators as a fuzzy norm. 48th International Conference on Regional Science, Cuenca (Spain), 16-18 October 2024.

Sánchez, A., D’Agostino, A., Giusti, C., & Potsi, A. (2024). The fuzzy approach for measuring material and psychosocial deprivation from the children’s perspective. 48th International Conference on Regional Science, Cuenca (Spain), 16-18 October 2024.

D’Agostino, A., Navarro, M., Neri, L., & Sánchez, A. (2024). Household’s Economic Insecurity in Italy and Spain: a multidimensional approach. 52nd Scientific Meeting of the Italian Statistical Society (SIS 2024), Bari (Italia), 17-20 June 2024.

Sánchez, A., & Jiménez-Fernández, E. (2023). Euclidean metric for approximating socio-economic vulnerability in the European Union. An unsupervised machine learning approach. 16th International Conference of the ERCIM on Computational and Methodological Statistics. HTW Berlin, University of Applied Sciences Berlin. Berlin (Germany), 16-18 December 2023.

D’Agostino, A., Navarro, M., Neri, L., & Sánchez, A. (2023). Socioeconomic Characteristics Associated with the Household’s Financial Insecurity in Spain. 21st ISQOLS 2023 Annual Conference Rotterdam (Netherlands), 21-25 August 2023.

Sánchez, A., D’Agostino, A., Giuli, C., & Potsi, A. (2022). Material and psychosocial deprivation as constitutive factors of the vulnerability to child poverty. 20th International Society for Quality-of-life Studies, 3-6 August 2022, Burlington, Vermont (USA).

Neri, L. & Crescenzi, F. (2022). Assessing vulnerability in small domain of Tuscany. International Conference on Regional Science, 19-21 October 2022, Granada (Spain).

Sánchez, A. & Jiménez-Fernández, E. (2022). DL2 method for assessing the socio-economic vulnerability of the EU regions. International Conference on Regional Science, 19-21 October 2022, Granada (Spain).

Navarro, M. & Moro-Egido, A.I. (2022). Child material deprivation: within region disparities by degree of urbanization. EALE, 8-10 de September 2022, Padova (Italia).

Ruiz-Martos, M. & Sánchez, A. (2022). Public Expenditure and Inequal Income Distribution in EU regions. Theil decomposition. 61st ERSA Congress, 23-26 August 2022, Pécs (Hungary).

Navarro, M. & Sánchez, A. (2021). Public spending of the welfare state in the European Union and child poverty in a context of economic crisis. 19th International Society for Quality-of-life Studies, 23-27 August 2021, Rotterdam (Netherland).

Sánchez, A. & Becerra, V. (2021). Subjective poverty as a more comprehensive approach to analysing poverty in Peru. 19th International Society for Quality-of-life Studies, 23-27 August 2021, Rotterdam (Netherland).

Sánchez, A., D’Agostino, A., & Potsi, A. (2021). Measuring vulnerability to child poverty: Material and social deprivation. 63rd ISI World Statistics Congress, 11-16 July 2021, Hague (Netherlands).

Sánchez, A. & Navarro, M. (2021). Child poverty and government social spending in the European Union during the economic crisis. 50th Scientific Meeting of the Italian Statistical Society, 21-25 June 2021, Pisa (Italy).

Angeles Sánchez has completed a month’s stay (March 21, 2023-April 22, 2023) at the University of Siena (Italy) with professors Laura Neri and Gianni Betti, experts in the measurement and study of poverty in vulnerable groups.

Victor Becerra Córdova has complete two month’s stay (February 11, 2023-April 11, 2023) at the University of Granada (Spain) with professor Angeles Sánchez to work in the topic of subjective poverty in Peru.

Antonella D’Agostino and Laura Neri have made a short-term placement at the University of Granada (October 17-23, 2022) to advance the ongoing work with the project team and to participate in the special session S03, organized by the project team at the International Conference on Regional Science (19-21 October 2022, Granada).

https://www.ugr.es/

https://reunionesdeestudiosregionales.org/granada2022/en/

María Victoria Navarro Hernández has completed a three-month stay (September 1, 2022-November 30, 2022) at the University of Siena (Italy) with professors Laura Neri and Gianni Betti, experts in the measurement and study of poverty in vulnerable groups.

https://www.unisi.it/node/3089

• Special Seminar Project P21_00032
  • A Systematic Review of the Recent Literature on Subjective Poverty, by Angeles Sánchez (University of Granada, Spain)
  • Composite Indicators defined by Absolutely Convex Sets and Norms, by Eduardo Jiménez-Fernández (University of Granada, Spain)
  • Analysis of the Components of the AROPE Index to Assess its Extension to Subjective Poverty, by Antonio Pérez-Corral (University of Granada, Spain)

• Special Junior Researchers I
  • Assessing Educational Poverty among 15-Year-Olds in the OECD Countries, by José Carlos Azor (University of Granada, Spain)
  • Managing Violence Against Women: An Empirical Approach to Local, Regional, and European Data, by Dario Ammannati (University of Siena, Italy)
  • A Comprehensive Study on Poverty and Deprivation in the European Union, by Pilar Hernández-Cervigón (University of Granada, Spain)

• Exploring Household Economic Insecurity in Italy and Spain: Insights from a Trivariate Probit Regression Analysis, by María Navarro, University of Granada (Spain)
• Using graphical models for missing data patterns detection in sustainability surveys, by Andrea Mecca, University of Siena and University of Florence (Italy)

• The mysterious absence of price competition in the Spanish off-patent medicines market, by David Epstein, University of Granada (Spain)
• Regional comparison of household well-being: Insights from Lombardy, Tuscany, and Campania, by Laura Neri, University of Siena (Italy)

• Effects of nearly-universal Health Care on Insurance Coverage: Evidence from Older Adults in Argentina, by Lola Jiménez-Rubio, University of Granada (Spain)
• Speeding up the computation of the FM index, by Federico Crescenzi, Tuscia University (Italy)

• Towards Integrating Information Systems of Statistical Indicators on Traceability, Quality and Safety of Italian Agrifood Systems for Citizens, Institutions and Policy-Makers, by Francesca Gagliardi (University of Siena, Italy).
• An assessment of Income Territorial Convergence Going beyond Aggregate Measures: Case Study of Malaga City, by Ana Muñoz-Fernández (University of Malaga, Spain).

• Tracking Gender Differences: Trends in School-to-University Transition and STEM Choices in Italy, by Roberta Cipriano (University of Florence & University of Siena).
• The role of knowledge in the decision of Granada University students to drink bottled water, by Nazaret Ibañez (University of Granada).

• Robust inference for generalized linear models by flip scores approach, by Riccardo De Santis (Postdoctoral researcher, University of Siena).
• The socioeconomic gradient in waiting times: evaluating the impact of provider choice in a universal healthcare system, by Juan David García Corchero (Substitute Teaching Tutor, University of Granada).

• Socioeconomic characteristics of poverty in Spain and Andalusia, by Pilar Hernández (PhD student, University of Granada).
• An attempt to correct the underestimation of inequality measures in cross-survey imputation through generalized additive models for location, scale, and shape, by Lorenzo Mori (PhD student, University of Bologna).
  

• Driving forces of earning inequalities in the European Union regions, by María J. Ruiz-Martos (Permanent Lecturer, University of Granada).
• New class of fuzzy multidimensional measures: exploring the many aspects of poverty, by Fernando Flores-Tavares (Postdoctoral researcher, University of Siena).

• Job-education mismatch according to a multidimensional and fuzzy approach, by Roberta Cipriano (PhD student, University of Siena).
• Essay on Poverty in Peru, by Victor Becerra (PhD student, University of Granada).
• The FuzzyPovertyR package, by Lorenzo Mori (PhD student, University of Bologna).

Gianni Betti, Federico Crescenzi, Lorenzo Mori, and Angeles Sánchez are the guest editors of the special issue of *Fuzzy Sets and Systems* entitled “Fuzzy Indices: New Developments in Theoretical, Computational, and Applied Topics”. This special issue aims to publish works that bridge the gap between theoretical and computational progress in the construction of fuzzy indices and their practical application to the social sciences, on topics such as poverty in all its forms.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/special-issue/319392/fuzzy-indices-new-developments-in-theoretical-computational-and-applied-topics

Angeles Sánchez, Antonella D’Agostino, Eduardo Jiménez-Fernández and Laura Neri are the guest editors of the special issue of Social Indicators Research, entitled Advanced techniques for constructing indicators and composite indicators. This special issue is focused on the application of advanced techniques (such as machine learning, fuzzy metrics, distance methods, etc.) in the construction of indicators and also composite indicators to study socioeconomic phenomena such as poverty and deprivation.

https://link.springer.com/collections/jcgacffihh