ISEG Funding Active Projects

Citizen science and ICT-based enhanced information systems for groundwater assessment, modelling and sustainable participatory management
The overall objective of eGROUNDWATER is to support sustainable participatory groundwater management in the Mediterranean regions through the design, testing and assessment of enhanced information systems (EIS).
Innovative EISs integrating citizen science and ICT-based tools will be designed and tested to improve the understanding of groundwater systems and, with the support of modelling and participatory approaches, engage stakeholders in the co-development of sustainable groundwater.

Building Ecosystems of Person-Centered Integrated Care Through Co-Creation
BUILD will involve communities, older adults with complex care needs, in-/formal caregivers, stakeholders and policy makers on different regulatory levels in the participatory co-design of PC-IC solutions and develop policy recommendations based on the experiences gathered. Ultimately, BUILD will develop a co-design framework and toolbox, as the main outcome of the project, that supports the implementation of PCIC through co-design and community engagement.

Gender Equality Plans for INclusivity: engines of Change
GEPINC proposes to develop and finely tailor new cutting-edge interventions and activities, which are engines of change, aiming at durably promoting gender diversity and inclusion in R&I, increasing RIO attractivity and productivity, and stimulating diverse research. GEPINC more advanced partners will work hand-in-hand with the lesser advanced ones, to ensure the effective implementation of GEPINC tools and activities, and to durably install, monitor and maintain a sustainable framework for gender inclusiveness.

The Socioeconomic Effects of Return Migration
SERM aims at identifying and quantifying the short and the long-term socioeconomic effects of return migration, by exploiting an unprecedented historical episode of forced population repatriation linked to a major event in European modern history. It leverages on comprehensive micro-level data from population censuses and other administrative sources, and relies on several methods from economics and computer science. We will exploit several state-of-the art methods in economics and computer science to measure the causal effects of return migration from different angles.

(Un)fairness perceptions: labor market, affirmative action, and algorithms
The aim of this project is to study and understand the consequences of perceptions of unfairness in different contexts, as well as the trade-of between fairness and efficiency, through the use of lab experiments. In particular, we investigate whether those in financial distress, who face social exclusion and loss, are trusted less and therefore reciprocate less. Only by understanding the dynamics of fairness perceptions and the behavioral consequences of perceived unfairness, are we able to compute the hidden costs and benefits of public and private policy, namely that aims at fighting discrimination and social exclusion, and the use of efficient mechanisms like algorithms.

Inequality, individual behavior, and policy reforms: evidence from administrative tax records
The project contributes to the frontier of knowledge about the measurement, causes and consequences of economic inequality and the role of public policies. The most important contribution of TAXINEQ, exploits data to provide the first high-frequency, robust, and unbiased study of the link between income and consumption. This parameter is of high importance for the design of welfare state (tax and transfer) policies when individuals face constraints which create a positive link between transitory changes in income and consumption, i.e., when consumption smoothing fails to apply. Moreover, TAXINEQ will exploit the richness of the demographics reported in the income tax, as well as income and wealth measures to document heterogeneity in the propensity to consume. As transfer and tax policies depend on household composition and income levels, the first WP of TAXINEQ will provide microfoundations to finetune these policies.

Growth or Relocation? Transport Accessibility and Economic Activity Location
TASSEL will provide valuable evidence on the role of road and railway networks on the spatial organization of economic activity since 1970, while distinguishing between growth and reorganization effects at multiple scales and across different economic sectors.

Sustainable Management of Fisheries with Stochastic Differential Equations
The dynamics of some biological phenomena are frequently modeled using ordinary differential equations. However, quite often random environmental fluctuations do affect the dynamics of these phenomena in a significant way and, besides causing considerable deviations from the mean dynamics, may also produce new qualitative features.This research plan will raise up new theoretical problems in the stochastic theory of fishing models and of stochastic optimization, as well as new estimation and prediction issues. Concerning the application of knowledge, it is expected to have a huge impact in the design of harvesting policies in order to help improve sustainability of the fisheries, to reduce the fish stock evaluation costs, to reduce the social and economic burdens of more traditional policies, and to improve the efficiency of the fishing activity.