opportunities. It examines Italy's experience during the 1990s, when policy changes prompted HE institutions to offer a wider range …

lockdown. Our results reveal how, relative to regions for which the lockdown arrived 10+ days after the pandemic's outbreak …

With the COVID-19 outbreak imposing stay at home and social distancing policies, warnings about the impact of lockdown … partner violence during the lockdown. Our results indicate that the impact of economic consequences is twice as large as the … impact of lockdown. We also find a large increase of domestic violence when the relative position of the man worsens …

pandemic in March 2020, it was hailed as exemplary. By June 2020 however, the lockdown was in disarray: the number of confirmed …When South Africa implemented its non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPIs) (its "lockdown") to stem the COVID-19 … than 50,000 businesses, to have government end the lockdown altogether. In this paper we argue that both government and the …

We study how the political cost of enforcing a lockdown in response to the COVID- 19 outbreak relates to citizens …' propensity for altruistic punishment in Italy, the early epicenter of the pandemic. Approval for the government's management of … the crisis decreases with the amount of the penalties that individuals would like to see enforced for lockdown violations …

Motivated by anecdotal as well as econometric evidence from Italy, we ask whether private schools can provide lower … offering at a positive price lower quality than the public school can be an equilibrium. The calibrated parameters for Italy …

levels over time in Italy. However, focusing on equality of circumstances, we show that there is still a persistent …

volunteers belonging to public, private forprofit and private nonprofit institutions delivering social services in Italy. The …