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Guglielmo Weber

Guglielmo Weber

International Research Fellow

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Education

PhD Economics, LSE London, 1988
MSc Econometrics and Mathematical Economics, LSE London, 1983
Laurea Economics, Siena University, 1982

Guglielmo is Professor of Econometrics at the University of Padua and an International Research Fellow of the IFS. His research interests are in consumption, saving and investment choices of households and economics of aging.

Journal articles

Journal article | Journal of the Royal Statistical Society: Series A
The contributions of paradata and features of respondents, interviewers, and survey agencies to panel cooperation in SHARE
The paper deals with panel co-operation in a cross-national, fully harmonized face to-face survey. Our outcome of interest is panel co-operation in the fourth wave of the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe.
Journal article
Work, Retirement and Muscle Strength Loss in Old Age
Reduced muscle strength is an accurate predictor of functional limitations, disability, and mortality. Hence, understanding which socio‐economic factors contribute to preserve muscle strength in old age is central to the design of social policies that help reducing these health risks.

Working papers

IFS Working Paper W20/18
The effects of social policies on the working careers of Europeans
We analyse the pattern of work and other labour market states, such as unemployment and out-of-labour-force, over the life course, by making use of a long retrospective panel of older Europeans.
IFS Working Paper W16/10
Consumption during the Great Recession in Italy
We use Italian micro data to investigate how consumers reacted to the Great Recession.

Presentations