Vito Peragine is currently an Associate Professor of Public Economics at the University of Bari. Previously he has held the position of Lecturer in Economics at the University "Carlos III" of Madrid (1999-2001). He holds a Ph.D. in Economics at the University of York. His main expertises are in the area of public economics, particularly in the field of distributional analysis, social policy, economics of education, labour economics, fiscal federalism.