HHB welcomes Mauro Gallegati - professor of Economics at the Polytechnic University of Marche, Ancona (Italy) - as a HHB Fellow. 

Prof. Gallegati's research includes business fluctuations, nonlinear dynamics, models of financial fragility and heterogeneous interacting agents. Mauro Gallegati is well known from his widely cited work with Joseph E. Stiglitz, developing theory of asymmetric information and heterogeneous agents and their applications. He published papers in the top journals on economic, economic history and history of economic analysis, nonlinear mathematics, applied economics, complexity and econophysics. A research group lead at INET by prof. Gallegati studies agent-based models of economic phenomena, with a special focus on the performance of heterogeneous, interacting agents, generating aggregate fluctuations, coordination failures and emerging phenomena in general.

HHB welcomes Paul Glewwe - Distinguished McKnight University Professor at the University of Minnesota - as a HHB Fellow. His research focuses on household and individual behavior and welfare in developing countries. Most of his research is on education in those countries; in particular on the factors the determine how long (if it all) children go to school and, more important, how much children learn in school. He also conducts research on inequality, income mobility, poverty, and child nutrition in developing countries, and on education in the U.S.  He has focuses on the following developing countries: Brazil, China, Cote d'Ivoire (Ivory Coast), Ghana, Honduras, Jamaica, Kenya, Morocco, Peru, the Philippines, Rwanda, Sri Lanka and Vietnam.

Is it possible to apply present-day standards to historical research? What needs to be done with the available material in order to enable long-term analyses up until the present? Discussing these particular topics, Prof. Giovanni Vecchi has presented the HHB Project at the Expert Workshop on Household-Level Datasets, hosted in Amsterdam on February 12 by the International Institute of Social History.

The IISH is home to the CLIO-Infra project, a collaborative website which aims to bring together historical research on global inequality since 1500, by facilitating a digital infrastructure for individual researchers and research teams that aim to bring together data on global inequality. The presentation has taken place during session 1 on "Ongoing research on global household budgets" and has focused on the added values of the project, especially regarding historical and geographical harmonization.

HHB welcomes Evan Roberts - Professor of Population Studies at the University of Minnesota - as a HHB Researcher. His research interests are in the social and economic history of Australasia and North America in the 19th and 20th centuries. His works are focused especially on the United States and New Zealand, but also on Australian and Canadian history for its connections and comparisons with them. His current research projects are about (1) health and living standards in New Zealand from the early nineteenth century to the present, and (2) married women's work and the family economy in the United States between the Civil War and World War II.

HHB welcomes Enrico Giovannini - professor of Statistics at the University of Rome “Tor Vergata” and Senior Fellow of the LUISS "School of European Political Economy" - as a HHB Fellow.

Widely known and esteemed statistician and economist, Prof. Giovannini has served as Chief Statistician and Director of the Statistics Directorate of the OECD from 2001 to 2009, when he was first nominated President of the Italian Statistical Institute (Istat) and then, from 2013 to 2014, Minister of labour and social policies in the Italian Government.
Among other positions, he is currently Co-chair of the "Independent Expert Advisory Group on the Data Revolution for Sustainable Development" established by the Secretary General of the UN, Co-Chair (with prof. T. Atkinson) of the Statistical Advisory Panel for the Human Development Report of the UN, and Co-chair (with prof. J. E. Stiglitz) of the Strategic Forum on the measurement of well-being.
He is author of more than ninety articles on economic and statistical topics, and in 2014 was published the last of his four books: “Choosing the Future: Knowledge and Policy in the Time of Big Data” (Il Mulino).