Nicolai Suppa is currently postdoctoral researcher at the Centre for Demographic Studies in Barcelona and Research Associate with the Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI) at the University of Oxford. He holds a PhD in economics from TU Dortmund in Germany, where he also studied economics and sociology. After his Phd he worked in the research project “Multidimensional Poverty Measurement in Germany and the European Union” funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG). His research interests are best described as applied welfare economics, including multidimensional poverty measurement and analysis, research on subjective well-being, the capability approach, labour economics, and applied econometrics.
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Nicolai Suppa
ORCID 0000-0002-4773-3864 Professor Lector (UB) vinculat al CED
Titulació: Doctor en Economia (TU Dortmund)
Línia/es de recerca:
Estratificació Social
2025
Suppa, Nicolai. 2025. «Deprivations Rarely Come Alone. Multidimensional Poverty Dynamics in Europe». Review of Income and Wealth 71(4):e70031. doi:10.1111/roiw.70031.
I.F.: SJR_2024_Q1_Economics and Econometrics_1.422 [online]
Suppa, Nicolai, i Usha Kanagaratnam. 2025. «The Global Multidimensional Poverty Index: Harmonised Level Estimates and Their Changes over Time». Scientific Data 12(1):153. doi: 10.1038/s41597-024-04269-x.
[online]
2023
Suppa, Nicolai. 2023. «Dinàmica multidimensional de la pobresa a Espanya i altres països europeus». L’Observatori Social. Fundació «laCaixa», novembre.
[online]
Suppa, Nicolai. 2023. «mpitb: A toolbox for multidimensional poverty indices». Stata Journal 23(3):625-57. doi: 10.1177/1536867X231195286. [online]
Alkire, Sabina, Ricardo Nogales, Natalie Naïri Quinn, i Nicolai Suppa. 2023. «On Track or Not? Projecting the Global Multidimensional Poverty Index». Journal of Development Economics 165:103150. doi: 10.1016/j.jdeveco.2023.103150. [online]
2022
United Nations Development Programme-UNDP; Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative-OPHI (2022). 2022 Global Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI): Unpacking deprivation bundles to reduce multidimensional poverty. New York. Nicolai SUPPA was involved in drafting the report. [online]
SUPPA, Nicolai; ALKIRE, Sabina; NOGALES, Ricardo (2022) “The many forms of poverty: Analyses of deprivation interlinkages in the developing world”. OPHI Research in Progress 63a, Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI). University of Oxford.
[online]
SUPPA, Nicolai (2022) “mpitb: A toolbox for multidimensional poverty índices”. OPHI research in progress Series, 62a: 1-22. University of Oxford: Oxford Poverty & Human Development Initiative (OPHI). [online]
PERMANYER, Iñaki; SUPPA, Nicolai (2022) “Racing ahead or lagging behind? Territorial cohesion in human development around the globe”. Regional Studies (online: 04 Apr 2022): 1-16 (ISSN: 0034-3404). https://doi.org/10.1080/00343404.2022.2038785 I.F.: <br /> JCR (SSCI)_2020_Q1_Economics, i.i. 4.672<br /> JCR_2020_Q1_Social Sciences (miscellaneous), i.i. 1.844 [online]
ALKIRE, Sabina; KANAGARATNAM, Usha; NOGALES, Ricardo; SUPPA, Nicolai (2022) “Revising the Global Multidimensional Poverty Index: Empirical Insights and Robustness”. Review of Income and Wealth (First published: 15 March 2022): 1-38 (ISSN: 0034-6586). https://doi.org/10.1111/roiw.12573 I.F.: <br /> JCR (SSCI)_2020_Q2_Economics, i.i. 2.122<br /> SJR_2020_Q2_Economics and Econometrics, i.i. 1.024 [online]
SUPPA, Nicolai; NOGALES, Ricardo (2022) “Simulations and multidimensional poverty: reflections on a COVID-19 evaluation study”. Dimensions, 13: 25-27. Multidimensional Poverty Peer Network (MPPN). [online]
2021
ALKIRE, Sabina; NOGALES, Ricardo; QUINN, Natalie N.; SUPPA, Nicolai (2021) “Global multidimensional poverty and COVID-19: A decade of progress at risk”. Social Science & Medicine, 291 (114457): 1-42 (ISSN: 0277-9536). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2021.114457 I.F.: JCR (SSCI)_2020_Q1_Social sciences, biomedical, i.i. 4.634<br /> SJR_2020_Q1_Health (Social science), i.i. 1.913 [online]
ALKIRE, Sabina; NOGALES, Ricardo; QUINN, Natalie N.; SUPPA, Nicolai (2021). “Global multidimensional poverty and COVID-19: A decade of progress at risk?”. OPHI Research in Progress Series, 61a: 1-26. Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative, University of Oxford. [online]
SUPPA, Nicolai (2021) “Walls of glass. Measuring deprivation in social participation”. The Journal of Economic Inequality (Published online: 10 April 2021): 1-27 (ISSN: 1569-1721). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10888-020-09469-0 I.F.: JCR_2019_Q3_Economics, i.i.1.044<br /> SJR_2020_Q1_Sociology and Political Science, i.i. 0.683 [online]
SUPPA, Nicolai (2021) “Unemployment and Subjective Well-Being”. ZIMMERMANN, Klaus F. (Ed.) Handbook of Labor, Human Resources and Population Economics. Springer, Cham: 1-32 pp (First online: 17 April 2021 / ISBN: 978-3-319-57365-6). DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-57365-6_196-1
SUPPA, Nicolai (2021) “Unemployment and subjective well-being”. GLO Discussion Paper (Global Labor Organization-GLO), 760: 1-45. [online]
PERMANYER, Iñaki; SUPPA, Nicolai (2021) “Racing ahead or lagging behind? Territorial cohesion in human development around the globe”. Working Paper, Society for the Study of Economic Inequality-ECINEQ, 569: 1-35. [online]
2020
ALKIRE, Sabina; KANAGARATNAM, Usha; SUPPA, Nicolai (2020). “The global Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI) 2020". Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative, University of Oxford: OPHI MPI Methodological Note, 49: 1-37. [online]
ALKIRE, Sabina; NOGALES, Ricardo; QUINN, Natalie N.; SUPPA, Nicolai (2020). “On Track or Not? Projecting the Global Multidimensional Poverty Index”. Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative, University of Oxford: OPHI Research in Progress, 58a: 1-53. [online]
ALKIRE, Sabina; KANAGARATNAM, Usha; NOGALES, Ricardo; SUPPA, Nicolai (2020) “Revising the Global Multidimensional Poverty Index: Empirical Insights and Robustness”. Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative, University of Oxford: OPHI Research in Progress, 56a, 1-43p. (A further developed version of this paper is published at the Review of Income and Wealth in 2022, DOI 10.1111/roiw.12573). [online]
KUNZE, Lars; SUPPA, Nicolai (2020) “Who Is Bowling Alone? Quantile Treatment Effects of Unemployment on Social Participation”. SOEPpapers on Multidisciplinary Panel Data Research, 1077: 28 pp. [online]
2019
ALKIRE, Sabina; KANAGARATNAM, Usha; NOGALES, Ricardo; SUPPA, Nicolai (2019) “Sensitivity Analyses in Poverty Measurement: The Case of the Global Multidimensional Poverty Index”. Special IARIW-World Bank Conference “New Approaches to Defining and Measuring Poverty in a Growing World” Washington, DC, November 7-8, 2019. IARIW-World Bank. [online]
ALKIRE, Sabina; KARAGARATNAM, Usha; SUPPA, Nicolai (2019) The Global Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI): 2019. OPHI MPI Methodological Note, 47: 1-28. Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative, University of Oxford.
Data tables and do-files (https://ophi.org.uk/multidimensional-poverty-index/mpi-resources/) [online] | [PDF]
SUPPA, Nicolai (2019) “Work and Wellbeing: A Conceptual Proposal”. OPHI Working Paper, 131: 1-36. Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative, University of Oxford (ISBN: 978-19-1229-122-9). [online] | [PDF]
SUPPA, Nicolai (2019) “¿Hay pobreza en Alemania?” Dimensiones. Revista sobre pobreza multidimensional (“Especial IPM Global 2018”), 6. I.F.: No Index. [online] | [PDF]
SUPPA, Nicolai (2019) “Is There Poverty in Germany?” Dimensions. Multidimensional Poverty Peer Network (“Special 2018 Global MPI”), 6: 19-23. I.F.: No Index. [online] | [PDF]
2018
SUPPA, Nicolai (2018) “Transitions in Poverty and Deprivations. An Analysis of Multidimensional Poverty Dynamics”. Social Choice and Welfare, 51 (2): 235-258 (ISBN: 0176-1714). I.F.: JCR_2018_Q4_Economics, i.i. 0.525 / SJR_2018_Q1_Social Sciences (miscellaneous), i.i. 0.621 [online]
ALKIRE, Sabina; KARAGARATNAM, Usha; SUPPA, Nicolai (2018) The Global Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI): 2018 Revision. OPHI MPI Methodological Note, 46: 1-59. Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative, University of Oxford.
Data tables and do-files (https://ophi.org.uk/2018-global-mpi-resources/) [online] | [PDF]
SUPPA, Nicolai (2018) “Walls of Glass: Measuring Deprivation in Social Participation”. SOEPpapers on Multidisciplinary Panel Data Research, 998: 1-38. [online] | [PDF]
KUNZE, Lars; SUPPA, Nicolai (2018) “The effect of unemployment on social participation of spouses: evidence from plant closures in Germany”. Empirical Economics (First online: 2 august 2018): 1-19 (ISSN: 0377-7332). I.F.: JCR_2017_Q3_Economics, 0.974<br /> SJR_2017_Q2_Economics and Econometrics, i.i. 0.532 [online]
SUPPA, Nicolai (2018) “Towards a multidimensional poverty index for Germany”. Empirica, 45 (4): 655-683 (ISSN: 0340-8744). I.F.: JCR_2017_Q3_Economics, i.i. 0.706<br /> SJR_2017_Q2_ Geography, Planning and Development, i.i. 0.38 [online]
2017
KUNZE, Lars; SUPPA, Nicolai (2017) “Bowling alone or bowling at all? The effect of unemployment on social participation”. Journal of Economic Behaviour and Organization, 133: 213-235 (ISSN: 0167-2681). I.F.: JCR_2018_Q2_Economics, i.i. 1.404 / SJR_2018_ /<br /> [online]
KUNZE, Lars; SUPPA, Nicolai (2017) “Unemployment as a social norm revisited: Novel evidence from German counties”. The Empirical Economics Letters, 16 (10), ISSN: 1681-8997. [online]
2021-2023
Utilizing microsimulations for the analysis of multidimensional poverty (SIMPOV)
Entitat Finançadora: "la Caixa" Foundation. The Social Observatory
Referencia: SR20-00974