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Gabriella Conti @gabriconti.bsky.social · 1d

These steps can help narrow Italy’s regional gaps and improve life chances for every child.

➡️ The geography of child disability is the geography of inequality — but new data can guide smarter policy.

📄 paper 👉 ifs.org.uk/publications...

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The geography of child disability in Italy: new evidence from administrative data | Institute for Fiscal Studies

We present new evidence from unique administrative data on child disability in Italy, examining prevalence by geography and age.

ifs.org.uk

Gabriella Conti @gabriconti.bsky.social · 1d

👶 Enhance early detection and intervention programmes in disadvantaged areas — early action changes life trajectories.
💶 Expand financial support for low-income families raising disabled children.
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Gabriella Conti @gabriconti.bsky.social · 1d

Policy lessons 🧩
🎯 Target resources and interventions in regions with higher disability rates — especially southern Italy.
🏥 Improve socio-economic and environmental conditions + strengthen healthcare quality and accessibility through specialist services & telemedicine.
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Gabriella Conti @gabriconti.bsky.social · 1d

🏥 Local context shapes children’s lives.
Higher disability rates appear where:
• economic vulnerability is high
• employment is low
• avoidable & infant mortality are higher
• families must travel for care (“health emigration”).
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Gabriella Conti @gabriconti.bsky.social · 1d

💰 Family income matters.
Children from the poorest families are almost twice as likely to be disabled as those in the richest deciles — even when using pre-birth parental earnings.
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Gabriella Conti @gabriconti.bsky.social · 1d

🧭 A clear North–South divide emerges and widens with age — also for more severe disabilities — a pattern that may reflect both later diagnosis in areas with weaker health systems and the cumulative effects of poorer living conditions in the South.
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Gabriella Conti @gabriconti.bsky.social · 1d

📍 For the first time, we provide a nationally representative map of child disability in Italy: 105,000 children (2.5%) are officially certified as disabled. (2/n)

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Gabriella Conti @gabriconti.bsky.social · 3d

🌟 Just run the 13.1 miles of the Royal 👸🏻 Parks Half Marathon in 2:03:44. 🏃🏻‍♀️
My first Half and LOVED IT!!! 💙

I run for Cancer Research UK 💙
You can still donate👉🏻
www.justgiving.com/page/gabriel... 🙏🏻

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Gabriella Conti @gabriconti.bsky.social · 5d

🏃🏻‍♀️ Tomorrow Sunday 12 October I’m running the #RoyalParkHalf for @crukpolicy.bsky.social — my first #half #marathon!

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Gabriella Conti @gabriconti.bsky.social · 28d

✨Thrilled to kick off the seminar season 25/26 w/ a keynote at the U of Trento -Workshop on Socio-Emotional Skills!

Spoke on:
📊Measuring children’s socio-emotional skills
💡New tools
🤖AI for scale & new frontiers

Tx++ to organizers @danipiazz.bsky.social @lucapiccoli.bsky.social L Mangiavacchi 🙌🏻

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Fatima Najeeb @fnajeeb.bsky.social · Aug 5

Thanks so much ‪@gabriconti.bsky.social‬! Very excited to start this new chapter 😄

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Gabriella Conti @gabriconti.bsky.social · Aug 4

📢I am v happy to share that Fatima Najeeb has joined the G-Lab @ucleconomics.bsky.social as Research Fellow from @univofmaryland.bsky.social!

🔴She will work w/ me & E. Del Bono ‪on the @nuffieldfoundation.org project "#Menopause, #HRT & Women Well-Being"

Warm Welcome @fnajeeb.bsky.social! 🥳

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Gabriella Conti @gabriconti.bsky.social · Aug 4

I’ve reached #10,000 #citations on #Google #Scholar! 🤯
scholar.google.com/citations?us...

Feeling proud, grateful, and motivated.

Thank you to the mentors, co-authors, and students who’ve shaped this journey with me.

Onward! 🚀

#10K #Citations #ResearchImpact #Gratitude #Scholarship

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Gabriella Conti @gabriconti.bsky.social · Jul 27

Delighted to be on the Scientific Committee for the 2025 European Winter Meeting of the Econometric Society #EWMES
📍 Nicosia, Cyprus
📅 Dec 7–9, 2025

🌱 A key platform for ECRs across econometrics, macro, micro, theory & more.

📝 Submit by Sept 7
🔗: www.econometricsociety.org/regional-act...

2025 European Winter Meeting, Nicosia, Cyprus - The Econometric Society

We are delighted to announce that the European Winter Meeting of the Econometric Society will be...

www.econometricsociety.org

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Aaron Sojourner @aaronsojourner.org · Jul 27

#EconConf

Gabriella Conti @gabriconti.bsky.social · Jul 27

Delighted to be on the Scientific Committee for the 2025 European Winter Meeting of the Econometric Society #EWMES
📍 Nicosia, Cyprus
📅 Dec 7–9, 2025

🌱 A key platform for ECRs across econometrics, macro, micro, theory & more.

📝 Submit by Sept 7
🔗: www.econometricsociety.org/regional-act...

2025 European Winter Meeting, Nicosia, Cyprus - The Econometric Society

We are delighted to announce that the European Winter Meeting of the Econometric Society will be...

www.econometricsociety.org

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Gabriella Conti @gabriconti.bsky.social · Jul 26

Delighted to be part of the Scientific Committee for the #CAF-WELAC (LACEA) Workshop on #Gender, #Households & #Inequality (Dec 16–17, Buenos Aires).

📍 Amazing speakers confirmed—submit your paper by Aug 3!
👉🏻 www.caf.com/media/467715...

#CallForPapers

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Gabriella Conti @gabriconti.bsky.social · Jul 24

And that’s a wrap on #IHEA2025 from Bali! 🇮🇩

Busy & productive as always—reconnecting w/ co-authors and brainstorming ideas w/ potential new ones! 🌟

Great to be here w/ @ucl.ac.uk #HEPL #Health #Economics #Policy #Lab crew + fab women & health economists Ana Balsa & Stefi Schurer ✨

#WomenInEcon

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Gabriella Conti @gabriconti.bsky.social · Jul 23

Well done to all the presenters, such an interesting session! 🙌🏻
#IHEA2025

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Gabriella Conti @gabriconti.bsky.social · Jul 23

Good morning! Interested in sexual and reproductive health? Then join us in Denpasar 2!👇🏻#IHEA2025

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Gabriella Conti @gabriconti.bsky.social · Jul 22

Done here w/ 3 presentations this morning at #IHEA2025 in Bali!

Below with session 1 moderator Bernard Moscoso and moderator & presenter of session 2 Nicole Black & Adam Akmal Dzulkipli @monashuniversity.bsky.social

Two interesting and engaging sessions - now enjoying the rest of the conference💥

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Gabriella Conti @gabriconti.bsky.social · Jul 22

🗣️ And now starting in Bougainville 1 for a special session on economic costs, prevention, and consequences of #child #maltreatment 👇🏻 #IHEA2025

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Gabriella Conti @gabriconti.bsky.social · Jul 22

Double duties for me at #IHEA2025 this morning!

We are soon starting the session “#Food and #Nutrition” in Surabaya (2nd floor BICC)!

I will present on changes in nutrition in pregnancy and adherence to the #NHS #guidelines👇🏻

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Gabriella Conti @gabriconti.bsky.social · Jul 19

As we move ‘from sickness to prevention and hospital to community’ (#NHS 10Y Plan) & #DfE strategy calls to strengthen health visiting + build on SureStart to deliver Best Start Family Hubs-
Our work helps turn these commitments into action #ResearchToPolicy💪🏼

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Gabriella Conti @gabriconti.bsky.social · Jul 19

We also drew lessons from recent work:

📌 Sure Start — long-run improvements in child outcomes and ROI
🔗 ifs.org.uk/publications...

📌 ProKind — delivery models & professional continuity matter
🔗 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
🔗 jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
🔗 www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...

The short- and medium-term effects of Sure Start on children’s outcomes | Institute for Fiscal Studies

An evaluation of Sure Start’s impacts on education, health, absences, special educational needs, crime and social care, plus a cost–benefit analysis.

ifs.org.uk

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Gabriella Conti @gabriconti.bsky.social · Jul 19

We shared:
•Coming soon: FOI-based report on Universal Health Visiting +work on #FNP #nurse #quality
•Completing: Reanalysis of the #BuildingBlocks trial & evaluation of #StartforLife / #FamilyHubs
•Also underway: integrated evaluation of early years programmes

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Gabriella Conti @gabriconti.bsky.social · Jul 19

Last Wed I had the privilege to give a seminar at #DHSC (Department of Health & Social Care) on #health #visiting and #early #intervention in England, w/ my excellent PostDoc G Weber Costa 📍

Grateful & happy for the strong turnout and genuinely engaged, thoughtful discussion! 🙏🏻

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Gabriella Conti @gabriconti.bsky.social · Jul 18

Such a good and useful piece! I was really happy to be part of the Expert Advisory Group 👏🏻

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Gabriella Conti @gabriconti.bsky.social · Jul 18

Super useful
Piece!! 👏🏻👏🏻

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Gabriella Conti @gabriconti.bsky.social · Jul 17

Yep she was great!!

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