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Crime and Education in a Model of Information Transmission

Cortés, Darwin; Friebel, Guido; Maldonado, Darío - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2010

We model the decisions of young individuals to stay in school or drop-out and engage in criminal activities. We build …

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From Statistical to Geolinguistic Data: Mapping and Measuring Linguistic Diversity

Barni, Monica - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2006

The aim of this paper is describing a new methodology for mapping and measuring linguistic diversity in a territory. The three methods that have been created by the Centro di eccellenza della ricerca Osservatorio linguistico permanente dell’italiano diffuso fra stranieri e delle lingue...

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Improving Education as Key to Enhancing Adaptive Capacity in Developing Countries

Lutz, Wolfgang - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2010

This paper summarizes new scientific evidence supporting the hypothesis that among the many factors contributing to international development, the combination of education and health stands out as a root cause on which other dimensions of development depend. Much of this recent analysis is based...

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Short and Long-term Effects of Environmental Tax Reform

Oueslati, Walid - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2013

This paper examines the macroeconomic effects of an environmental tax reform in a growing economy. A model of endogenous growth based on human capital accumulation is used to numerically simulate the growth effects of different environmental tax reforms and compute their impact on welfare in the...

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Italian Schools and New Linguistic Minorities: Nationality Vs. Plurilingualism. Which Ways and Methodologies for Mapping these Contexts?

Bagna, Carla - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2006

non italiana 2004-2005 (MIUR, October 2005), 4.2% of the school population in Italy is made up of non-Italian citizens … linguistic landscape of a school and of a territory. …

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Riding the Waves of Reforms in Corporate Law, an Overview of Recent Improvements in Italian Corporate Codes of Conduct

Sabatini, Fabio - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2006

This paper provides an exploratory analysis on the relationship between educational qualification and work status in Italy, with a particular focus on entrepreneurs and self-employed workers. Rough data are drawn from four waves (1995, 1998, 2002, and 2004) of the Survey of Household Income and...

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Reconsidering The Impact of Environment on Long-Run Growth When Pollution Influences Health and Agents Have Finite-Lifetime

Pautrel, Xavier - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2006

Using an overlapping generation model à la Blanchard (1985) with human capital accumulation, this article demonstrates that the influence of environment on optimal growth in the long-run may be explained by the detrimental effect of pollution on life expectancy. It also shows that, in such a...

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How Homophily Affects Learning and Diffusion in Networks

Golub, Benjamin; Jackson, Matthew O. - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2009

graphs and relating the spectra to homophily. We conclude by checking the theoretical predictions using observed high school …

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How (not) to Choose Peers in Studying Groups

Gall, Thomas; Amann, Roland - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2006

This paper analyzes social group formation when agents are subject to peer effects within groups increasing human capital and instantaneous utility. When agents are heterogeneous on two dimensions, ability and social skills, and monetary payments are not feasible the model predicts segregation...

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School Quality and Family Background in Italy

Brunello, Giorgio; Checchi, Daniele - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2003

had an even stronger impact on attainment. We find that the positive impact of better school quality on educational … family background. Parental education has had asymmetric effects, positive on attainment and negative on school returns …. Better school quality also had asymmetric effects on the returns to education, positive for individuals with poor family …

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