Marco Felici is a PhD Candidate at the University of Cambridge (Department of Land Economy and Darwin College). His research spans household finance, housing, subjective well-being and mental health.

In his PhD thesis, Marco explored how housing tenure transitions can be framed as events from a statistical perspective, and what the implications are for studying the consequences of housing tenure. The thesis focuses on three outcomes: portfolio choice, mental health and voting behaviour. More broadly, Marco’s research is concerned with households and individuals, studying questions in housing, household finance, subjective well-being and mental health and combining theory insights from the broader social sciences with modern empirical methods.

Peer-reviewed publications:

Fabian, M., Alexandrova, A., Coyle, D., Agarwala, M., & Felici, M. (2022). "Respecting the subject in wellbeing public policy: beyond the social planner perspective." Journal of European Public Policy. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13501763.2022.2093947

Working papers:

Felici, M., Kenny, G., & Friz, R. (2022). "Consumer savings behaviour at low and negative interest rates." ECB Working Paper Series No 2736. https://www.ecb.europa.eu/pub/pdf/scpwps/ecb.wp2736~b79d07069c.en.pdf

Felici, M. (2022). "The long view on housing tenure and mental health." SSRN. https://ssrn.com/abstract=4078586

Felici, M. (2021). "Housing, financial conditions and mental health during a pandemic." SSRN. https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3978482

Felici, M., & Agarwala, M. (2022). "The heterogeneous relationship of education with wellbeing. " Bennett Institute for Public Policy. https://www.bennettinstitute.cam.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/The-he...

Felici, M., & Fuerst, Franz (2021). "The heterogeneous relationship of owner-occupied and investment property with household portfolio choice." SSRN. https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3890258

Fabian, M., Agarwala, M., Alexandrova, A., Coyle, D., & Felici, M. (2021). "Wellbeing public policy needs more theory. " Bennett Institute for Public Policy. https://www.bennettinstitute.cam.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/WPP_ne...

Blogging

• https://www.bennettinstitute.cam.ac.uk/blog/social-capital-and-response-covid-19/  
• https://www.bennettinstitute.cam.ac.uk/blog/levelling-up-SWB/
• https://www.bennettinstitute.cam.ac.uk/blog/measuring-social-capital-industrial-strategy

Housing, household finance, well-being, mental health