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Economic insecurity and fertility intentions: the case of Italy
Modena, Francesca; Rondinelli, Concetta; Sabatini, Fabio - Banca d'Italia - 2013
assess how fertility intentions are affected by job instability, which may severely compromise the employment status of …
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Investing in the youngest: the optimal child care policy
Carta, Francesca - Banca d'Italia - 2013
The aim of the paper is to characterize the optimal child care policies (subsidies and state provision), assuming that child care provision affects the child�s future abilities. Public intervention is needed since two sources of economic inefficiency are contemporaneously influential:...
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The intergenerational transmission of reading: is a good example the best sermon?
Mancini, Anna Laura; Monfardini, Chiara; Pasqua, Silvia - Banca d'Italia - 2014
We use the last two waves of the Italian Time Use Survey to analyse the intergenerational transmission of reading habits. This can be explained by both cultural and educational transfers from parents to children and by imitative behaviour. Imitation is of particular interest, since it suggests...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011105140
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Dropping the books and working off the books
Cappariello, Rita; Zizza, Roberta - Banca d'Italia - 2009
The paper empirically tests the relationship between underground labour and schooling achievement for Italy; a country …
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Low skilled immigration and the expansion of private schools
Dottori, Davide; Shen, I-Ling - Banca d'Italia - 2009
children to privately funded schools. The education regime results from the interplay between households' choices on fertility … system into private schools. The fertility differential between high- and low-skilled locals increases due to a quantity …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008496432
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Rethinking the crime reducing effect of education? Mechanisms and evidence from regional divides
Brilli, Ylenia; Tonello, Marco - Banca d'Italia - 2015
between different cohorts and at different ages that followed a reform that raised the school-leaving age in Italy. A 1 … percentage-point increase of the enrollment rate reduces adolescent crime by 1.3 per cent in the North of Italy but increases it …
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Human capital for growth: possible steps towards an upgrade of the Italian education system
Cipollone, Piero; Montanaro, Pasqualino; Sestito, Paolo - Banca d'Italia - 2012
The problems of Italy�s education system mostly stem from its modus operandi and interactions with the expectations of families and students. The recent signs of improvement in Italian students� proficiency, plausibly reflecting greater emphasis on rigour, could be reinforced by making...
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(Non)persistent effects of fertility on female labour supply
Rondinelli, Concetta; Zizza, Roberta - Banca d'Italia - 2010
fertility. We address this problem by using an exogenous variation in family size caused by infertility shocks, mainly related …The negative association between fertility and female labour market participation is complicated by the endogeneity of … to the fact that nature prevents some women from achieving their desired fertility levels. Despite a widely documented …
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