Dr Piotr Paradowski's areas of expertise in quantitative social science methods include truncated and censored models, quantile regressions, survival analysis, panel data models, discrete regressions and qualitative choice models, instrumental variable estimation, and hierarchical modeling. He is also an expert in statistical matching and statistical methods to handle missing data. In addition, he conducts research on income and wealth distributions as they relate to economic inequality, poverty, and welfare state politics.

Diploma Theses Topics (theses written in English):

- The analytical, computational, and econometric investigation concerning the economic well-being and behavior of households using microdata from various countries:
     • household income, consumption, net worth, assets, and debts;
     • saving and investment attitudes and behaviors;
     • household financial constraints; 
     • income and wealth inequality, poverty.
- The cross-national comparative research on social welfare policy, welfare generosity, and redistribution.
- The measurement issues and econometric/statistical methods in the analysis of household wealth. 
- Other topics related to analysis of microdata on income, wealth, and consumption (if discussed in advance).

Courses taught:

Empirical research on household economic behaviour and well-being 
Quantitative research methods (Doctoral School)
Methods of quantitative analysis 

Consultations:

Thursdays 18:30-19:30 on MSTeams after earlier reservation by email to piotr.paradowski@pg.edu.pl . Consultations are possible on other weekdays after reservation by email.