Publications

Publications by categories in reversed chronological order, distinguished by selected papers, other papers, and book chapters.

Main Publications

2025

  1. Mediating effects between social capital and health care utilization in Italy–a structural equation model analysis
    Tallys Feldens, Chiara Seghieri, Andrea Fontana, and 1 more author
    Population Health Metrics, 2025
  2. The challenge of the first 1,000 days. The dynamics of early-life health inequalities in a universal healthcare system: Evidence from Italy
    Paolo Berta and Gilberto Turati
    Health Policy, 2025
  3. Administrative border effects in COVID-19 related mortality
    Paolo Berta, Massimiliano Bratti, Carlo V Fiorio, and 2 more authors
    Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series A: Statistics in Society, 2025

2022

  1. The beaten paths effect on patient inter-regional mobility: An application to the Italian NHS
    Paolo Berta, Gianmaria Martini, Daniele Spinelli, and 1 more author
    Papers in Regional Science, 2022
  2. Locational error in the estimation of regional discrete choice models using distance as a regressor
    Giuseppe Arbia, Paolo Berta, and Carrie B. Dolan
    The Annals of Regional Science, 2022
  3. The association between hospital cooperation and the quality of healthcare
    Paolo Berta, Veronica Vinciotti, and Francesco Moscone
    Regional Studies, 2022

2021

  1. How have casemix, cost and hospital stay of inpatients in the last year of life changed over the past decade? Evidence from Italy
    Paolo Berta, Pietro Giorgio Lovaglio, and Stefano Verzillo
    Health Policy, 2021
  2. Hospitals’ strategic behaviours and patient mobility: Evidence from Italy
    Paolo Berta, Carla Guerriero, and Rosella Levaggi
    Socio-Economic Planning Sciences, 2021

2020

  1. The strange case of less C-sections: Hospital ownership, market concentration, and DRG-tariff regulation
    Paolo Berta, Gianmaria Martini, Massimiliano Piacenza, and 1 more author
    Health Economics, 2020

2019

  1. Multilevel logistic cluster-weighted model for outcome evaluation in healthcare
    Paolo Berta and Veronica Vinciotti
    Statistical Analysis and Data Mining, 2019
  2. Geographic variation in inpatient costs for Acute Myocardial Infarction care: Insights from Italy
    Chiara Seghieri, Paolo Berta, and Sabina Nuti
    Health Policy, 2019
  3. Do pay-for-performance incentives lead to a better health outcome?
    Alina Peluso, Paolo Berta, and Veronica Vinciotti
    Empirical Economics, 2019

2017

  1. The redistributive effects of copayment in outpatient prescriptions: evidence from Lombardy
    Paolo Berta, Rosella Levaggi, Gianmaria Martini, and 1 more author
    BMC health services research, 2017
  2. %CEM: a SAS macro to perform Coarsened Exact Matching
    Paolo Berta, Matteo Bossi, and Stefano Verzillo
    Journal of Statistical Computation and Simulation, 2017

2016

  1. The association between asymmetric information, hospital competition and quality of healthcare: evidence from Italy
    Paolo Berta, Gianmaria Martini, Francesco Moscone, and 1 more author
    Journal of the Royal Statistical Society: Series A (Statistics in Society), 2016

2015

  1. Mother’s educational level and single motherhood: Comparing Spain and Italy
    Anna Garriga, Sebastià Sarasa, and Paolo Berta
    Demographic Research, 2015

2014

  1. The effectiveness-efficiency trade-off in health care: The case of hospitals in Lombardy, Italy
    Gianmaria Martini, Paolo Berta, John Mullahy, and 1 more author
    Regional Science and Urban Economics, 2014

2013

  1. Comparing health outcomes among hospitals: the experience of the Lombardy Region
    Paolo Berta, Chiara Seghieri, and Giorgio Vittadini
    Health care management science, 2013

2012

  1. The effect of a law limiting upcoding on hospital admissions: evidence from Italy
    Giorgio Vittadini, Paolo Berta, Gianmaria Martini, and 1 more author
    Empirical economics, 2012

2010

  1. The effetcs of upcoding, cream skimming and readmissions on the Italian hospitals efficiency modelling: a populaiton-based investigtion
    Paolo Berta, Giuditta Callea, Gianmaria Martini, and 1 more author
    Economic modelling, 2010

Other Publications

2026

  1. Exploring inequalities in birth outcomes by maternal citizenship: evidence from lombardy
    Chiara Persico and Paolo Berta
    Rivista Italiana di Economia Demografia e Statistica , 2026

2024

  1. Personal and regional risk factors of being a NEET: a comparative study in Italy, France and Germany with LFS microdata
    Pietro Giorgio Lovaglio and Paolo Berta
    Quality & Quantity, 2024
  2. Latent heterogeneity in COVID-19 hospitalisations: a cluster-weighted approach to analyse mortality
    Paolo Berta, Salvatore Ingrassia, Giorgio Vittadini, and 1 more author
    Australian & New Zealand Journal of Statistics, 2024
  3. Analysis and clinical determinants of post-COVID-19 syndrome in the Lombardy region: evidence from a longitudinal cohort study
    Fabio Borgonovo, Pietro Giorgio Lovaglio, Chiara Mariani, and 5 more authors
    BMJ Open, 2024

2023

  1. Divided We Survive? Multilevel Governance during the COVID-19 Pandemic in Italy and Spain
    Marta Angelici, Paolo Berta, Joan Costa-Font, and 1 more author
    Publius: The Journal of Federalism, 2023
  2. Detecting early signals of COVID-19 outbreaks in 2020 in small areas by monitoring healthcare utilisation databases: first lessons learned from the Italian AlertCoV project
    Eurosurveillance, 2023

2022

  1. Surfactant protein D (SP-D) as a biomarker of SARS-CoV-2 infection
    Lucia Salvioni, Filippo Testa, Adela Sulejmani, and 9 more authors
    Clinica Chimica Acta, 2022

2021

  1. The impact of COVID-19 pandemic on AMI and stroke mortality in Lombardy: Evidence from the epicenter of the pandemic
    Camillo Rossi, Paolo Berta, Salvatore Curello, and 6 more authors
    PLOS ONE, Oct 2021

2020

  1. A bivariate prediction approach for adapting the health care system response to the spread of COVID-19
    Paolo Berta, Paolo Paruolo, Stefano Verzillo, and 1 more author
    Plos one, 2020

2019

  1. Template matching for hospital comparison: an application to birth event data in Italy
    Massimo Cannas, Paolo Berta, and Francesco Mola
    Statistica & Applicazioni, 2019

2018

  1. Patient satisfaction, patients leaving hospital against medical advice and mortality in Italian university hospitals: a cross-sectional analysis
    Tommaso Grillo Ruggieri, Paolo Berta, Anna Maria Murante, and 1 more author
    BMC Health Services Research, 2018

2016

  1. Multilevel cluster-weighted models for the evaluation of hospitals
    Paolo Berta, Salvatore Ingrassia, Antonio Punzo, and 1 more author
    METRON, 2016

Book chapters

2023

  1. Multilevel governance in the first wave of Covid-19
    Marta Angelici, Paolo Berta, Joan Costa-Font, and 1 more author
    In Handbook on the Political Economy of Health Systems, 2023

2022

  1. The Impact of COVID-19 Pandemic on the Healthcare System in Lombardy
    Marta Angelici, Paolo Berta, and Giorgio Vittadini
    In The Economics of COVID-19, 2022

2018

  1. Single-Mother Families, Mother’s Educational Level, Children’s School Outcomes
    Anna Garriga and Paolo Berta
    In Unequal Family Lives: Causes and Consequences in Europe and the Americas, 2018

2016

  1. La valutazione degli esiti per specialita’: la sperimentazione del metodo CRISP-MES per le AOU del Network delle Regioi
    Paolo Berta, Giuseppe D’Orio, and Tommaso Grillo Ruggeri
    In La valutazione delle performance delle Aziende Ospedaliero-Universitarie, 2016
  2. La valutazione degli esiti per specialita’: introduzione metodologica
    Giorgio Vittadini, Paolo Berta, and Merlino Luca Giuseppe
    In La valutazione delle performance delle Aziende Ospedaliero-Universitarie, 2016

2012

  1. Efficacia ex post
    Paolo Berta, Luca Merlino, and Giorgio Vittadini
    In Manuale del Sistema di valutazione della performance degli ospedali lombardi, 2012
  2. L’efficienza
    Paolo Berta, Gianmaria Martini, and Giorgio Vittadini
    In Manuale del Sistema di valutazione della performance degli ospedali lombardi, 2012
  3. Appendice I
    Paolo Berta, Gianmaria Martini, and Giorgio Vittadini
    In Manuale del Sistema di valutazione della performance degli ospedali lombardi, 2012

2010

  1. La valutazione dell’efficacia in sanita’
    Giorgio Vittadini and Paolo Berta
    In La valutazione della qualita’ nel sistema sanitario. Analisi dell’efficacia ospedaliera in Lombardia, 2010
  2. Appendice 1 – La valutazione dell’efficacia a livello internazionale
    Paolo Berta and Michele Castelli
    In La valutazione della qualita’ nel sistema sanitario. Analisi dell’efficacia ospedaliera in Lombardia, 2010