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By changing many aspects of everyday life, the COVID-19 pandemic and the social distance policies implemented to face it have affected the behaviour of many people, all over the world. Has the pandemic also affected people approach toward the divine? Previous evidences suggest that the prayer...
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have had in Italy, we aim to shed some light on the subject. More precisely, a synthetic control method approach suggests … that Bolzano, the first province in Italy to have opened the schools after the summer break, has way more cases than its …
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We compare health system responses to the first wave of COVID-19 pandemic in Italy and Spain. In both countries … first wave, leaving more autonomy to regional governments in Italy than in Spain. Upon documenting national and regional … autonomy, and fostering experimentation and local solutions explains the gap between Italy and Spain in the first wave of the …
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, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Sweden, Switzerland and the UK. Exploiting within-country variation, we show that a one …-March until mid-May. Using Italy as a case study, we find that high-social-capital areas exhibit lower excess mortality and a …
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well as our broader (policy) attitudes and values. We fielded large online survey experiments in Italy, Spain, Germany and …
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We study how intentions to comply with the self-isolation restrictions introduced in Italy to mitigate the COVID-19 …
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during the pandemic on the traditional division of household labor in Italy using survey data from interviews with a …
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Looking at TV news viewership in Italy during the COVID-19 pandemic using actual consumption data, we investigate …
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Liste di mobilità (LM) is an Italian labour market programme targeted to dismissed workers. There is a "passive" component granting monetary benefits to employees dismissed by firms larger than 15 employees, and an "active" component providing an employment subsidy to any firm hiring workers...
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Empirical tests of the theories on the relationship between political competition and economic performance generate a puzzle: data tend to support the theory at the lower levels of government, but not in panels of countries. We argue that the larger set of policy instruments reduces the tax...
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