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Economic Science and Political Influence

Saint-Paul, Gilles - 2013

When policymakers and private agents use models, the economists who design the model have an incentive to alter it in order to influence outcomes in a fashion consistent with their own preferences. I discuss some consequences of the existence of such ideological bias. In particular, I analyze...

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Policy Evaluation and Economic Policy Advice

Schmidt, Christoph M. - 2021

Arguably, one of the most important developments in the field of applied economics during the last decades has been the emergence of systematic policy evaluation, with its distinct focus on the establishment of causality. By contrast to the natural sciences, the objects of our scientific...

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Generating Legitimacy for Labor Market and Welfare State Reforms : The Role of Policy Advice in Germany, the Netherlands, and Sweden

Eichhorst, Werner; Wintermann, Ole - 2021

Policy advice can help political actors design and implement institutional reforms through the generation of political and substantial legitimacy. This article clarifies the institutional pre-conditions of effective supply and transfer of policy advice with particular respect to the field of...

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Mothers' Labour Market Participation : Do Grandparents Make it Easier?

Arpino, Bruno; Pronzato, Chiara Daniela; Tavares, Lara … - 2013

Childcare arrangements are key in women's ability to juggle motherhood and working outside the home. As such, the study of the access to childcare and its use is of great policy relevance. We focus on a particular kind of informal childcare, the one provided by grandparents. Empirically,...

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Scarring Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic on the Italian Labour Market

Fiaschi, Davide; Tealdi, Cristina - 2022

The COVID-19 pandemic raised the share of inactive individuals in 2020 in Italy, mostly at the expense of permanent and … severely the ones living in large households in the North and Center of Italy. These findings find a rationale both in the …

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The Unequal Cost of Job Loss Across Countries

Bertheau, Antoine; Acabbi, Edoardo; Barceló, Cristina; … - 2022

and Sweden experience the lowest earnings declines following job displacement, while workers in Italy, Spain, and Portugal …

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Human Capital Investments and Family Size in Italy : IV Estimates Using Twin Births as an Instrument

Ponzo, Michela; Scoppa, Vincenzo - 2022

limitations. We investigate this issue for Italy even in the absence of Census data relating family of origin to children …'s educational outcomes using many waves of the Survey on Household Income and Wealth of the Bank of Italy and focusing on the …

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The Duration of the School-to-Work Transition in Italy and in Other European Countries : A Flexible Baseline Hazard Interpretation

Pastore, Francesco; Quintano, Claudio; Rocca, Antonella - 2022

Purpose: The Italian school-to-work transition (STWT) is astonishingly slow and long in comparison to the other EU countries. The aim of this paper is to analyze its determinants comparing the Italian case with Austria, Poland and the UK in a gender perspective. Design/methodology/approach: The...

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Immigrant Supply of Marketable Child Care and Native Fertility in Italy

Mariani, Rama Dasi; Rosati, Furio Camillo - 2022

the natural experiment occurred in Italy in 2007, when a large inflow of migrants many of them specialized in the supply …

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Learning at Home : Distance Learning Solutions and Child Development During the COVID-19 Lockdown

Champeaux, Hugues; Mangiavacchi, Lucia; Marchetta, Francesca - 2022

May in France and Italy, we estimate child fixed effects models to analyze how the lockdown has affected children … boys, on kids attending kindergarten (in Italy) or secondary school (in France), and on children whose parents have a lower … methodologies, that has been much more common in Italy than in France, appears to significantly attenuate the negative impact on …

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