3 papers
stat.AP2026
The Broken Shield of European Palliative Care: Evidence from Synthetic Counterfactuals on Financial Toxicity and Informal Care
Pietro Grassi, Edoardo Paperi, Chiara Seghieri +1
The transition of end-of-life care to palliative care (PC) sparks intense debate: does it provide economic relief or shift unremunerated labor costs onto families? Evaluating this…
cs.GT2026
Approximation Properties of Evolutionary Dynamics in Continuous-Time Finite State Space Games
Pietro Grassi
This thesis studies the convergence of finite-population stochastic evolutionary dynamics to their deterministic mean-field limit in continuous-time finite state space games. We fi…
stat.AP2026
Synthesizing the Counterfactual: A CTGAN-Augmented Causal Evaluation of Palliative Care on Spousal Depression
Pietro Grassi, Roberto Molinari, Chiara Seghieri +1
Spousal bereavement severely deteriorates mental health. While palliative care benefits dying patients, its "stress-buffering" effect on survivors' depression remains empirically e…