This paper examines the relationship between corruption and infrastructure at both the country and regional level using … the measure of corruption in the macro data and the measures of transportation and electricity infrastructure. Countries … with more corruption tend to have worse infrastructure in the eyes of their firms. This link is shown to remain when one …

of public infrastructure across Italian regions basing the analysis also on institutional and political ground. The issue … is here addressed linking the analysis of the impact of infrastructure on GDP with the issue of corruption by means of a … difference between a measure of the physical quantities of public infrastructure and the cumulative price government pays for …

infrastructures. One product of this trend is the ‘inverse infrastructure,’ which refers to a modularized, semi-autonomous and user …-driven infrastructure that is a result of the self-organization of local actors. In this study, we discuss the nature of such … infrastructures and the challenges they pose to local infrastructure policy with special reference to the case of water cooperatives …

higher female labour participation is responsible for the fall in fertility. On the contrary, the instability of the women …

participation is responsible for the fall in fertility. On the contrary, the instability of women’s work status (i.e. having …

Building on anthropological evidence, we develop a model of intra-household decision making on fertility and child …

Twin births are often used as an instrument for fertility in models investigating the impact of family size on labour … market and child outcomes. However, a large share of twin births (24% in our sample) are the result of fertility treatments … show that (a) mothers with and without fertility treatment are different, (b) twin births are still random after …