Poverty, wellbeing, inequality and relative deprivation, social/distributive justice, social choice, Sen’s capability approach, cross-country studies, measurement and data collection methodologies; Latin America and the Caribbean, Mozambique.

Publications 
 

Journal Articles

Esposito, L., Kebede, B. and Maddox, B., Literacy Practices and Schooling: A Case study from Mozambique. World Development (forthcoming)
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Corazzini, L., Esposito, L. and Majorano, F., Reign in Hell or Serve in Heav’n? A Cross-country Journey into the Absolutist vs Relativist Perception of Wellbeing. Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization (forthcoming)
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Esposito, L. and Lambert, P. J., Poverty Measurement: Prioritarianism, Sufficiency and the ‘I’s of Poverty. Economics and Philosophy (forthcoming)
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Maddox, B. and Esposito, L., Sufficiency Re-examined: A Capabilities Perspective on the Assessment of Functional Adult Literacy. Journal of Development Studies (forthcoming) 
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Corazzini, L., Esposito, L. and Majorano F., Exploring the Absolutist Vs Relativist Perception of Poverty Using a Cross-Country Questionnaire Survey. Journal of Economic Psychology (forthcoming)
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Bosmans, K., Esposito, L. and Lambert, P. J., 2011. New perspectives on a more-or-less familiar poverty index. Social Choice and Welfare 36 (2) pp. 241-247
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Esposito, L. and Chiappero-Martinetti, E., 2010. Multidimensional Poverty Measurement: Restricted and Unrestricted Hierarchy among Poverty Dimensions. Journal of Applied Economics 13 (2) pp. 181-204
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Esposito, L. and Majorano, F., 2010. What Principles should inform Poverty Indices? Insights from a Cross-Country Survey. Empirical Economics (available online May 2010)
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Esposito, L., 2010. Upper Boundedness for the Measurement of Relative Deprivation. Review of Income and Wealth 56 (3), pp. 632–639 (September)
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Esposito, L. and Lambert P. J., 2009. A Note to the Bourguignon-Fields Class of Poverty Indices. Journal of Public Economics 93, pp. 852-854
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Other papers

Esposito, L., 2009. On the joint Evaluation and Modelling of Absolute Poverty and Relative Deprivation, in progress.

Bosmans, K., Esposito, L. and Schokkaert, E., 2009. Why does Finland have Unit Fines? in progress.

Esposito, L., Kebede, B. and Maddox, B., 2009. Literacy Functionings and Subjective Evaluation, in progress.

Esposito, L., 2009. Asymmetries between the concepts of Poverty and Wellbeing: evidence from multiple surveys, in progress.

Esposito, L. and Jackson, C., 2009. Gender Roles and Education in Preferences for Local Dances, in progress.