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Assessing Gender Inequality among Italian Regions: The Italian Gender Gap Index

Bozzano, Monica - Dipartimento di Economia "Marco Biagi", Università … - 2012

This paper aims at exploring and evaluating the geographic distribution of gender inequality across Italian regions. The aim of the analysis is two-fold. First we build a composite indicator of gender inequality at the regional level for Italy by applying the methodology developed by the World...

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Marriage and Other Risky Assets: A Portfolio Approach

Bertocchi, Graziella; Brunetti, Marianna; Torricelli, … - Dipartimento di Economia "Marco Biagi", Università … - 2009

We study the joint impact of gender and marital status on financial decisions. First, we test the hypothesis that marriage represents - in a portfolio framework - a sort of safe asset, and that this effect is stronger for women. Controlling for a number of observable characteristics, we show...

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Family Structure and the Education Gender Gap: Evidence from Italian Provinces

Bertocchi, Graziella; Bozzano, Monica - Dipartimento di Economia "Marco Biagi", Università … - 2014

We investigate the determinants of the education gender gap in Italy in historical perspective with a focus on the influence of family structure. We capture the latter with two indicators: residential habits (nuclear vs. complex families) and inheritance rules (partition vs. primogeniture)....

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International Migration and the Role of Institutions

Bertocchi, Graziella; Strozzi, Chiara - Dipartimento di Economia "Marco Biagi", Università … - 2008

than economic and demographic fundamentals. We evaluate the impact of political institutions and of those institutions … differentials play a major role, but that the quality of institutions also matter. We produce evidence that both political and … migration institutions represent significant factors of attraction, even after controlling for their potential endogeneity …

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Race v. Suffrage. The Determinants of Development in Mississippi

Bertocchi, Graziella; Dimico, Arcangelo - Dipartimento di Economia "Marco Biagi", Università … - 2011

- 2000 period. Our main conclusion is that race, rather than political institutions and education policies, is the main force …

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De Jure and de Facto Determinants of Power:Evidence from Mississippi

Bertocchi, Graziella; Dimico, Arcangelo - Dipartimento di Economia "Marco Biagi", Università … - 2012

We evaluate the empirical relevance of de facto vs. de jure determinants of political power in the U.S. South between the end of the nineteenth and the beginning of the twentieth century. We apply a variety of estimation techniques to a previously unexploited dataset on voter registration by...

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Growth, History, or Institutions? What Explains State Fragility in Sub-Saharan Africa

Bertocchi, Graziella; Guerzoni, Andrea - Dipartimento di Economia "Marco Biagi", Università … - 2010

, demographic, geographic and istitutional regressors, we find that institutions, and in particular the civil liberties index and … institutions are accounted for. …

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Slavery, Education, and Inequality

Bertocchi, Graziella; Dimico, Arcangelo - Dipartimento di Economia "Marco Biagi", Università … - 2010

We investigate the impact of slavery on the current performances of the US economy. Over a cross section of counties, we find that the legacy of slavery does not affect current income per capita, but does affect current income inequality. In other words, those counties that displayed a higher...

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Growth, Colonization, and Institutional Development. In and Out of Africa

Bertocchi, Graziella - Dipartimento di Economia "Marco Biagi", Università … - 2011

This essay investigates the determinants of the growth performance of Africa. I start by illustrating a broader research agenda which accounts not only for basic economic and demographic factors, but also for the role of history and institutional development. After reporting results from...

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