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February 1, 2021

Targeted COVID-19 relief programs improve compliance with confinement measures

Study from Italy analyzes the impact of a food stamp program on social distancing

  • compliance
  • COVID-19
  • fairness
  • food relief
  • Italy
  • social distancing
  • Andrea Geraci
  • Claudio Deiana
  • Fabio Sabatini
  • Gianluca Mazzarella
Research

November 27, 2019

How earthquakes affect social preferences

When people are exposed to a disaster, their demand for redistribution increases

  • inequality
  • Italy
  • natural experiment
  • redistribution
  • Fabio Sabatini
  • Giovanni Gualtieri
  • Marcella Nicolini
Research

January 18, 2019

Revealing stereotypes to teachers can improve student outcomes

Immigrant students receive lower grades despite same performance as natives

  • discrimination
  • education
  • immigrantion
  • Italy
  • school
  • stereotype
  • teaching
  • Alberto Alesina
  • Eliana La Ferrara
  • Michela Carlana
  • Paolo Pinotti
Research

November 8, 2017

Low-skilled immigration causes human capital polarization in Italy

While there is a vast literature considering the labor market effects of immigration, less has been done to investigate how […]

  • globalization
  • human capital
  • human capital polarization
  • immigration
  • immigration policy
  • Italy
  • low-skilled
  • low-skilled workers
  • Elisabetta Lodigiani
  • Giorgio Brunello
  • Lorenzo Rocco
Research

February 3, 2017

How to improve compliance with sectoral minimum wages

Research on minimum wages focuses mainly on their impact on employment. More recently some papers have looked also at prices, […]

  • collective agreements
  • compliance
  • employer organizations
  • Italy
  • sectoral minimum wages
  • underpayment
  • unions
  • workers
  • Andrea Garnero
Opinion

July 22, 2016

The overeducated Italian doctors

By Giuseppe Lucio Gaeta, Giuseppe Lubrano Lavadera, and Francesco Pastore Gaining a Ph.D. possibly determines positive outcomes from both an […]

  • doctors
  • Italy
  • overeducation
  • PhD
  • wages
Research

November 4, 2015

Broadband boosts firm performance but not jobs in rural areas

To fully realize the potential of today’s internet requires fast access. But in some of Europe’s rural areas, broadband connections […]

  • ADSL2+
  • broadband internet
  • firm performance
  • infrastructure
  • Italy
  • rural-urban internal migration
  • Trento
  • Giulia Canzian
  • Samuele Poy
  • Simone Schüller
Research

June 20, 2014

A culture of crime: growing up with the mafia next door

Organized crime generates about two percent of global GDP. While this is already a considerable share, the mafia and other […]

  • behavior
  • crime
  • education
  • Italy
  • mafia
  • school
  • student
  • Antonino Vaccaro
  • Lamar Pierce
  • Stephan Meier
Research

June 17, 2014

Mr. Rossi, Mr. Hu and politics: How immigration shapes natives’ political preferences

International migration is a global phenomenon, widely studied in the literature. An important but less investigated issue concerns the role […]

  • China
  • Dutch Freedom Party
  • election
  • Front National
  • immigration
  • Italy
  • Lega Nord
  • migration
  • parliament
  • political choices
  • Roman Prodi
  • Silvio Berlusconi
  • Alessio D'Ignazio
  • Guglielmo Barone
  • Guido de Blasio
  • Paolo Naticchioni
Research

June 14, 2014

Mr. Rossi, Mr. Hu and politics: How immigration shapes natives’ political preferences

International migration is a global phenomenon, widely studied in the literature. An important but less investigated issue concerns the role […]

  • China
  • Dutch Freedom Party
  • election
  • Front National
  • immigration
  • Italy
  • Lega Nord
  • migration
  • parliament
  • political choices
  • Roman Prodi
  • Silvio Berlusconi
  • Alessio D'Ignazio
  • Guglielmo Barone
  • Guido de Blasio
  • Paolo Naticchioni
Research

May 13, 2014

When the crowd goes wild: Home advantage in same-stadium derbies

The football matches between Inter and AC Milan or between Lazio and AS Rome belong to the most prestigious in […]

  • effort
  • football
  • home support
  • Italy
  • motivation
  • stadium
  • Michela Ponzo
  • Vincenzo Scoppa
Research

May 12, 2014

How an Italian pension reform reduced fertility

In Southern European countries family ties are traditionally very strong. In Italy, three out of four individuals who already have […]

  • childcare
  • children
  • fertility
  • grandparents
  • intergenerational
  • Italy
  • parents
  • pension
  • Erich Battistin
  • Mario Padula
  • Michele De Nadai
Research

April 22, 2014

A stitch in time saves nine: procrastination and academic success

Every student knows how hard it can be to pull yourself together and study. From a short-run perspective, being lazy […]

  • academic performance
  • Italy
  • procrastination
  • student
  • student performance
  • training programs
  • university
  • Maria De Paola
  • Vincenzo Scoppa
Research

March 18, 2014

Shared joy is double joy: Girls are more generous than boys

Classic economic theory has long pursued the concept of homo economicus, which sees human beings as rational actors who are […]

  • altruism
  • charity
  • children
  • experiment
  • game
  • Italy
  • Daniela Glätzle-Rützler
  • Matthias Sutter
  • Philipp Lergetporer
  • Silvia Angerer
Research

November 25, 2013

Apprenticeships improve job opportunities

In Italy, as in many other European countries, apprenticeships and on-the-job training have been gaining popularity. Although being only of […]

  • apprenticeships
  • employment protection
  • Italy
  • permanent contract
  • training
  • youth
  • Matteo Picchio
  • Stefano Staffolani
Research

November 8, 2013

Study abroad programs boost labor market careers

Despite the great popularity of international educational mobility schemes like the European Erasmus scholarship program, relatively little research has been […]

  • education
  • educational mobility
  • employment
  • Italy
  • job prospects
  • university
  • Giorgio Di Pietro
Research

November 4, 2013

Persuading mothers to work: results from an experiment

Many women see themselves as the better providers of care for their children, and thus refrain from delegating child care. […]

  • child care
  • female labor supply
  • field experiment
  • Italy
  • maternal leave
  • wage
  • women
  • Chiara D. Pronzato
  • Francesco C. Billari
  • Paola Profeta
  • Vincenzo Galasso
Research

September 16, 2013

How job security increases insecurity

The goal of employment protection legislation is to increase workers’ job security by making it more difficult and costly for […]

  • atypical employment
  • employment protection
  • Europe
  • Italy
  • labor market institutions
  • labor market reform
  • liberalization
  • temporary workers
  • Alexander Hijzen
  • Leopoldo Mondauto
  • Stefano Scarpetta
Research

July 22, 2013

Men vote for Mars, women vote for Venus

A new IZA discussion paper by Vincenzo Galasso and Tommaso Nannicini investigates whether the degree of aggressiveness of political campaigns […]

  • election
  • electoral campaign
  • field experiment
  • gender differences
  • Italy
  • political economy
  • politician
  • turnout
  • Tommaso Nannicini
  • Vincenzo Galasso
Research

February 2, 2013

Newspapers make governments more efficient

The key democratic task of the press is to be a watchdog for governments and politicians. Do the media carry […]

  • democracy
  • Italy
  • media
  • newspapers
  • political participation
  • political selection
  • Francesco Drago
  • Francesco Sobbrio
  • Tommaso Nannicini

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