Gaia BERTARELLI

Position
Associate Professor
Telephone
041 234 7658
E-mail
gaia.bertarelli@unive.it
Academic discipline
Social statistics [STAT-03/B]
Website
https://www.unive.it/web/en/19197/people/gaia.bertarelli(personal record)
Office
Department of Economics
Website: https://www.unive.it/dep.economics
Where: San Giobbe
Research Institute
Research Institute for Social Innovation
Research Institute
Research Institute for Complexity

Office hours

Department of Economics -  San Giobbe campus
Room 118, block C, first floor
Office hours 4°Period: Thursday from 2.30 pm to 4.30 pm (by appointment by email). 
Accepting applications from students for bachelor's and master's thesis in the field of statistics / social statistics. 
Personal website

Teaching activity current year

DATA ANALYTICS FOR BUSINESS AND SOCIETY [EMR14]
Laurea magistrale (DM270)

ECONOMIA AZIENDALE [ET11]
Laurea

TOURISM MANAGEMENT AND SUSTAINABILITY [EMR9]
Laurea magistrale (DM270)

WELFARE, SOCIETÀ E LAVORO SOCIALE [FMR8]
Laurea magistrale (DM270)

Teaching activity previous years

DATA ANALYTICS FOR BUSINESS AND SOCIETY [EMR14]
Laurea magistrale (DM270)

TOURISM MANAGEMENT AND SUSTAINABILITY [EMR9]
Laurea magistrale (DM270)

ECONOMIA AZIENDALE [ET11]
Laurea

BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION AND MANAGEMENT [ETR8]
Laurea

WELFARE, SOCIETÀ E LAVORO SOCIALE [FMR8]
Laurea magistrale (DM270)

Activities and research skills

Academic discipline
Statistica sociale [STAT-03/B]
Settore Scientifico Disciplinare (SSD) affine
STATISTICA [SECS-S/01]
Geographic areas in which the research experience mainly applies
Internazionale: Europa
Known languages
Inglese (scritto: avanzato parlato: avanzato)
Francese (scritto: intermedio parlato: base)
Tedesco (scritto: base parlato: base)
Italiano (scritto: madrelingua parlato: madrelingua)
Main departmental research areas and fields
Area: Ambiente Linea: Clima
Area: Ambiente Linea: Pianificazione territorio
Area: Statistica Linea: Not-for-profit - Modelli e metodi
Area: Statistica Linea: Not-for-profit - politiche e gestione
STIMA PER PICCOLE AREE - SMALL AREA ESTIMATION
Description:
Metodi robusti ed M-quantile; Modelli Latent Markov; Modelli Finite Mixture; Modelli a classi latenti; Benchmarking; modelli Bayesiani Gerarchici; modelli per variabili binarie, Integrazione dati provenienti da più fonti di diversa natura
Keywords:
Socio-economic research
CAMPIONAMENTO - SURVEY STATISTICS
Description:
Inferenza per popolazioni finite; Analisi di dati provenienti da campioni complessi; Metodi boostrap, Disegni campionari complessi
MODELLI STATISTICI - STATISTICAL MODELS
Description:
Modelli Quantile ed M-quantile; Modelli a classi latenti; Modeli spazio-temporali; Modelli per poverty mapping
VALUTAZIONE DI POLITICHE - POLICY EVALUATION
Description:
Targeting di politiche sanitarie e relative alla povertà
INDICATORI COMPOSITI MULTIDIMENSIONALI - MULTIDIMENSIONAL COMPOSITE INDICATORS
APPLICAZIONI IN AMBITO DI STATISTICA SOCIALE - SOCIAL STATISTICS
Description:
Statistiche ufficiali; statistiche sanitarie, indagini: sulle forze lavoro, sulle spese delle famiglie, sulle condizioni di salute dei cittadini, AVQ, EU-SILC; statistica di genere; povertà educativa, poverty mapping, multimorbidità
Planet 4 Health
SSD:
SECS-S/05
Other members of the research group:
Stefano CAMPOSTRINI
Mattia STIVAL
Planet 4 Health
Funding body:
EU - Horizon
Type:
HorizonEurope - Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Role in the project:
LD
Sito di progetto:
https://planet4health.eu/
Starting date:
Year: 2024 Length in months: 48
Other members of the research group:
Stefano CAMPOSTRINI
Mattia STIVAL
Servizi Educativi per l'Infanzia
Funding body:
Dipartimento di politiche per la famiglia
Type:
Altri finanziamenti per progetti di ricerca
Role in the project:
LD
Starting date:
Year: 2025 Length in months: 36
Other members of the research group:
Angela ANDREELLA
Stefano CAMPOSTRINI
Andrea PASTORE

Publication highlights

Schirripa Spagnolo, Francesco; Salvati, Nicola; Bertarelli, Gaia; Haziza, David; Chambers, Ray Bias Control for M-quantile-based Small Area Estimators in JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN STATISTICAL ASSOCIATION, vol. 121, pp. 1671-1682 (ISSN 0162-1459)
DOI - URL correlato 2026, Journal Article - ARCA card: 10278/5107549


Schirripa Spagnolo, Francesco; Bertarelli, Gaia; Summa, Donato; Scannapieco, Monica; Pratesi, Monica; Marchetti, Stefano; Salvati, Nicola Inference for big data assisted by small area methods: an application on sustainable development goals sensitivity of enterprises in Italy in JOURNAL OF THE ROYAL STATISTICAL SOCIETY. SERIES A. STATISTICS IN SOCIETY, vol. 188, pp. 27-45 (ISSN 0964-1998)
DOI - URL correlato 2025, Journal Article - ARCA card: 10278/5083971


Marchetti, Stefano; Giusti, Caterina; Schirripa Spagnolo, Francesco; Bertarelli, Gaia; Biggeri, Luigi The impact of local cost-of-living differences on relative poverty incidence: an application using retail scanner data and small area estimation models in STATISTICAL METHODS & APPLICATIONS, vol. 33, pp. 1117-1143 (ISSN 1618-2510)
DOI - URL correlato 2024, Journal Article - ARCA card: 10278/5047138


Giovanni Tonutti; Gaia Bertarelli; Caterina Giusti; Monica Pratesi Disaggregation of poverty indicators by small area methods for assessing the targeting of the Reddito di Cittadinanza national policy in Italy in SOCIO-ECONOMIC PLANNING SCIENCES, vol. 82 (ISSN 0038-0121)
DOI - URL correlato 2022, Journal Article - ARCA card: 10278/5014905


Bertarelli G.; Chambers R.; Salvati N. Outlier robust small domain estimation via bias correction and robust bootstrapping in STATISTICAL METHODS & APPLICATIONS, vol. 30, pp. 331-357 (ISSN 1618-2510)
DOI 2021, Journal Article - ARCA card: 10278/5015265


List of publications

Curriculum vitae

Gaia Bertarelli is an Associate Professor of Social Statistics at the Department of Economics of the Ca’ Foscari University of Venice. She obtained a BSc in Mathematics and a Master degree in Biostatistics and Experimental Statistics from the University of Milano Bicocca. She enrolled in the doctoral program in Statistics of the University of Milano Bicocca in 2012. Under the supervision of Prof. Maria Giovanna Ranalli, she was awarded a PhD in December 2015. In the following years, she worked at the University of Perugia and at the University of Pisa as post-doc researcher; and at the Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies of Pisa as junior assistant professor, before moving to Venice in February 2023 as tenure track assistant professor, and then from February, 2026, as Associate Professor.

Her research fields include small area estimation (SAE) methods, robust statistics, latent variable models, multidimensional composite indicators and integration methods for different types of data. The fields of application of her research mainly concern health systems, gender differences and multidimensional aspects of poverty and sustainable well-being. She is a consultant for FAO (The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations) and for Save the Children ONLUS, and since 2018 she has been involved in several projects funded by the European Union. Since 2015 she has collaborated with ISTAT (National Institute of Statistics) on projects aimed at the methodological and applicative development of SAE models in official statistics and concerning the definition and measurement of educational poverty.

In 2019-2020 she was councilor and coordinator of the ySIS section, the group of statisticians under 35 of the SIS, Italian Statistical Society. For the two-year period 2024-2025 she is an elected member of the coordinating group of S2G, the SIS Survey Sampling group. Since 2024 she has been associate editor of the scientific journal "Statistical Methods and Applications" (fascia A - Area 13 - ANVUR) and editor of the "Book and Software" section of The Survey Statistician, the magazine of the IASS (International Association of Survey Statisticians).

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