Salvatore Morelli

Salvatore Morelli is an Associate Professor in Public Economics at Roma Tre University's Department of Law and a Senior Scholar/Director of the GC Wealth Project at CUNY Graduate Center's Stone Center on Socio-Economic Inequality. He holds a DPhil in Economics from the University of Oxford and is a Research Associate at CSEF (University of Naples) and a WID.world Fellow. His research focuses on wealth inequality, inheritance taxation, and the intersection of economic inequality with climate crises. He leads the GC Wealth Project, consolidating global research on wealth distribution and tax policies.

Education: DPhil in Economics (University of Oxford). Affiliations: CSEF, LSE International Inequality Institute, WID.world. Key projects include analyzing wealth concentration in Italy, global wealth data aggregation, and policy impacts of inheritance taxation. His work bridges academic research with policy, addressing issues like wealth disparities and climate change.

Research Interests: Wealth distribution dynamics, intergenerational transfers, tax policy, and macroeconomic inequality. Recent studies include the role of inheritances in wealth inequality and methodological advancements in wealth estimation using estate data.