Profile

Biography

Silvio Daidone is a Research Fellow within the Health Policy team based at the Centre for Health Economics. He obtained both a Degree in Economics and an MSc in Economics with a specialization in quantitative methods at Tor Vergata University, Rome, Italy. In 2010 he was awarded a PhD in Econometrics and Empirical Economics by the same university under the supervision of Prof. Vincenzo Atella.

During his PhD career he attended the International Doctoral Program in Health Economics and Policy organized by the Swiss School of Public Health, and visited for six months the Health Research and Policy Department at Stanford University, US. He has also been a consultant at the Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN for two years.

His research interests include microeconometrics, consumer and production theory, productivity and efficiency analysis (parametric Stochastic Frontiers) applied to the hospital sector, with a focus on the impact of technology on costs, patients’ level data analysis.

Research

Overview

• Microeconometrics
• Consumer and production theory
• Productivity and efficiency analysis

Research group(s)

• Health Policy Team

Grants

• National Institute for Health Research     
  Combining routinely collected data and patient outcomes to measure the outcome/cost ratios of hospital procedures and identify variation across providers

Publications

Full publications list

2012

• Gutacker N, Bojke C, Daidone S, Devlin N, Street A. Analysing hospital variation in health outcome at the level of EQ-5D dimensions: Centre for Health Economics, University of York; CHE Research Paper 74 (PDF , 521kb)2012.

2011

• Daidone S, Street A. Estimating the costs of specialised care: updated analysis using data for 2009/10 Centre for Health Economics, University of York; CHE Research Paper 71 (PDF , 325kb) 2011.
• Daidone S, Street A. Estimating the costs of specialised care. Centre for Health Economics, University of York; CHE Research Paper 61 (PDF , 342kb) 2011.

• Gutacker N, Bojke C, Daidone S, Devlin N, Parkin D, Street A. Truly inefficient or providing better quality of care? analysing the relationship between risk-adjusted hospital costs and patients’ health outcomes. Centre for Health Economics, University of York; CHE Research Paper 68 (PDF , 381kb) , 2011.

2010

• Anríquez G, Daidone S. Farm and non-farm linkages at the house-hold level in rural Ghana. A consistent stochastic distance function approach, Agricultural Economics, 2010;41:51-66.
• Anríquez G, Daidone S, Mane E. Rising food prices and undernourishment: a cross-country inquiry, ESA Working Paper Series No 10-01, February 2010.

2009

• Atella V, Cincotti F, Daidone S. Spesa sanitaria pubblica ed effetti sulle famiglie in Il sistema sanitario in controluce. Rapporto 2009, edited by Fondazione Farmafactoring, Franco Angeli, Milano.
• Daidone S, D'Amico F. Technical efficiency, specialization and ownership form: evidences from a pooling of Italian hospitals. Journal of Productivity Analysis. 2009; 32:203-216.