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Fat and Out in Salerno and Province : Adolescent Obesity and Early School Leaving in Southern Italy
Barone, Adriana - 2014
Salerno in Southern Italy. A simple human capital investment model is employed and this provides a framework within which to …
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The European Youth Guarantee : Labor Market Context, Conditions and Opportunities in Italy
Pastore, Francesco - 2015
This essay aims to discuss the conditions for a successful implementation of the European Youth Guarantee in Italy. In …
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Young People between Education and the Labour Market During the Covid-19 Pandemic in Italy
Fiaschi, Davide; Tealdi, Cristina - 2023
-to-work transition (STWT). The aim is to assess the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic in Italy on the careers of individuals aged 15-34. We … significantly longer STWT duration compared to other EU countries, particularly for females and residents in the South of Italy. In … rigorous estimation and analysis of the impact of COVID-19 on the carriers of young individuals in Italy, which has not yet …
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Explaining the Favorite-Longshot Bias : Is it Risk-Love or Misperceptions?
Snowberg, Erik C. - 2011
The favorite-longshot bias describes the longstanding empirical regularity that betting odds provide biased estimates of the probability of a horse winning - longshots are overbet, while favorites are underbet. Neoclassical explanations of this phenomenon focus on rational gamblers who overbet...
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Lotteries vs. All-Pay Auctions in Fair and Biased Contests
Epstein, Gil S. - 2012
The form of contests for a single fixed prize can be determined by a designer who maximizes the contestants' efforts. This paper establishes that, under common knowledge of the two asymmetric contestants' prize valuations, a fair Tullock-type endogenously determined lottery is always superior to...
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Why Do People Pay for Useless Advice? Implications of Gambler's and Hot-Hand Fallacies in False-Expert Setting
Powdthavee, Nattavudh - 2012
We investigated experimentally whether people can be induced to believe in a non-existent expert, and subsequently pay for what can only be described as transparently useless advice about future chance events. Consistent with the theoretical predictions made by Rabin (2002) and Rabin and Vayanos...
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The Impact of Legalized Casino Gambling on Crime
Nichols, Mark W. - 2013
We examine the impact of legalized casino gambling, including Indian casinos, on crime. Using county-level data between …
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Does the Military Train Men to Be Violent Criminals? New Evidence from Australia's Conscription Lotteries
Siminski, Peter - 2013
Combat is the most intense form of military service, but several aspects of the training experience, which explicitly prepares people for violent warfare, are hypothesized to link service to violent crime. Using Australia's Vietnam-era conscription lotteries for identification and criminal court...
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Race-Blind Admissions, School Segregation, and Student Outcomes : Evidence from Race-Blind Magnet School Lotteries
Cook, Jason - 2018
We know surprisingly little about the influence of race-blind school admissions on student outcomes. This paper studies a unique reform where a large, urban school district was federally mandated to adopt a race-blind lottery system to fill seats in its oversubscribed magnet schools. The...
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Career Lotto : Labor Supply in Winner-Take-All Markets
Grove, Wayne A. - 2019
Are people prone to selecting occupations with highly skewed income distributions despite minuscule chances of success? Assembling a comprehensive pool of potential teenage entrants into professional tennis (a typical winner-take-all market), we construct objective measures of relative ability...
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