Francesca Francavilla

Position:	Research Fellow
Work Area:	Employment Group
	Contact Details Education and Expertise Projects Publications Other Information

Contact Details

Education

• Ph.D.: Development Economics, University of Florence, 2005
• M.Sc.: Economics and Institution, University of Rome Tor Vergata, Italy, 2001
• B.A.: Economics, University of Pisa, Italy, 2000

View Francesca Francavilla's curriculum vitae here [pdf]

Expertise

Francesca joined the PSI Employment research group in January 2008 as a Research Fellow. Prior to joining PSI, she worked as Post-doctoral researcher at the University of Florence (Italy), where she previously obtained a PhD in Development Economics.

She is a quantitative researcher specialising in labour market economics with econometric and data handling skills using both administrative data and survey data. Her main research interests include Programme valuation, Welfare-to-work, Child labour, and Poverty reduction.

Her most recent research involved the analysis of the relationship between mother and child labour and the causal relationship between poverty and fertility in less developed countries. She worked as a consultant to UNICEF, WHO and the Understanding Children's Work project (ILO, UNICEF and the World Bank inter-agency research project).

At PSI Francesca is working on the Employment Retention and Advancement (ERA) programme, for the Department for Work and Pensions and on the Understanding the housing and economic circumstances of The Riverside Group tenants project, for The Riverside Group.

She is also working on a project for the European Parliament on the evaluation of the value of Unpaid Family Care Work in the EU.

Projects

Current Projects

• Employment Retention and Advancement (ERA) Scheme: demonstration project
• Evaluation of Private Sector Led Pathways to Work Incapacity Benefit Reform: Quantitative administrative and survey data analyses of impacts

Completed Projects

• Understanding the housing and economic circumstances of The Riverside Group tenants
• Women and unpaid family care work in the EU

Publications

• Francavilla, F., Giannelli, G.C., Grotkowska, G, Piccoli, L., Socha, M.W. (2010), Women and Unpaid Family Care Work in the EU, Policy Department Citizens’ Rights and Constitutional Affairs, European Parliament
  
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• Francavilla, F., Giannelli, GC (2010) The Relation between Child Labour and Mothers’ Work. The Case of India, International Journal of Manpower, Vol. 31, No. 2

• Francavilla, F., Mattei, A. (2009) 'Assessing the Causal Effect of Childbearing on Economic Wellbeing in Albania', in Causal Analysis in Population Studies: Concepts, Methods, Applications, Eds. Engelhardt, Kohler and Prskawetz, Springer, 2009

• Giannelli, G.C., Grilli, L., Francavilla, F., (2008) School attendance of children and the work of mothers: A joint multilevel model for India, IZA Discussion Paper No. IZA DP No. 3531

Other Information

Previous articles in academic journals

• Aassve, A., H. Engelhardt, F. Francavilla, Kedir, J. Kim, F. Mealli, L. Mencarini, S. Pudney and A. Prskawetz (2006) Poverty and Fertility in Less Developed Countries: A Comparative Analysis Population Review Vol. 45, No. 2
  
  

Previous working papers

• F. Francavilla, G. C. Giannelli (2007), The Relation between Child Labour and Mothers’ Work. The Case of India, IZA Discussion Paper No.3099
  
  
• G. C. Giannelli , F. Francavilla (2007), Do family planning programs help women’s employment? The case of Indian mothers, IZA Discussion Paper No. 2762
  
  
• Aassve, A, H. Engelhardt, A. Francavilla, F. Kedir, J. Kim, F. Mealli, L. Mencarini, S. Pudney and A. Prskawetz (2005) Poverty and Fertility in Less Developed Countries: A Comparative Analysis, ISER Working Paper n. 2005-13
  
  
• S. Pudney, F. Francavilla (2006), Income mis-measurement and the estimation of poverty rates An analysis of income poverty in Albania , ISER Working Paper n. 2006-35
  
  
• F. Francavilla, S. Lyon (2003), Household Chores and Child Health: Preliminary Evidence for Six Countries, Understanding Children’s Work Project, ILO/UNICEF/WORLD BANK, UCW Working Paper
  
  
• F. Francavilla, S. Lyon (2002), Child Work in Côte d'Ivoire: An Overview , Understanding Children’s Work Project, ILO/UNICEF/WORLD BANK, UCW Working Paper

Previous research reports

• E. Recchi, E. Baldoni, L. Mencarini, Francavilla, F. (2006) Geographical and Job Mobility in the EU, European Commission, Employment & Social Affairs DG Employment, Social Affairs and Equal Opportunities (Project Tender No. VT/2005/0107)

Presentations

• XXIV National Conference on Labour Economics (AIEL), Sassari ( Italy), 24-25 September 2009
  
  
• European Association of Labour Economists (EALE), Tallinn ( Estonia), 10-12 September 2009
  
  
• European Society for Population Economics (ESPE), Seville ( Spain), 11-12 June 2009
  
  

• Innocenti Research Center - Unicef, Florence (Italy) 21 November, 2008
  
  
• European Association of Labour Economists (EALE), Amsterdam (Netherlands), 18-20 September 2008
  
  
• Seminar on child labour, education and youth employment: a challenge for economic growth and social progress, (Understanding Children's Work Project and Universidad Carlos III de Madrid), Madrid (Spanish), 11-12 September 2008
  
  
• International Association For Feminist Economics (IAFFE), Torino (Italy), 19-21 June 2008
  
  
• Third IZA/World Bank Conference on Employment and Development, Rabat (Morocco), 5-6 May 2008
  
  

• XLVIII Riunione Scientifica Annuale della Società Italiana degli Economisti (SIE), Torino (Italy), October 2007
  
  
• XXII National Conference on Labour Economics (AIEL), Napoli ( Italy), September 2007
  
  
• IZA Workshop: Child Labour in Developing Countries, Bonn ( Germany), June 2007
  
  
• The Global Workplace - Learning from each other , Fondazione Universitaria Marco Biagi, University of Modena (Italy), March 2007
  
  

• Causal Analysis in Population Studies: Concepts, Methods and Applications, Vienna Institute of Demography, Vienna ( Austria), November 2006
  
  
• Poverty dynamics and fertility in developing countries, Department of Statistic “G.Parenti”, University of Florence (Italy), March 2006
  
  
• Unicef - Innocenti Research Center, Florence ( Italy), February 2006
  
  

• OB - Libere idee per l’economia, Department of Economics, University of Florence Italy), October 2005
  
  
• Poverty dynamics and fertility in developing countries, ISER (Institute for Social and Economic Research) Workshop, University of Essex (UK), October 2004

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