In this paper we investigate the effect of the restructuring of university studies that took place in Italy after the introduction of the "3+2" reform on student time allocation and performance. We use data from an Economics Faculty and propensity score matching, which allow us to account for...

The aim of this paper is to perform a theoretically-based empirical analysis concerning the impact of demography on economic growth via the accumulation of human capital. Although the direct effects of demographic variables on economic growth have been widely investigated in the economic...

This paper deals with the world income distribution. In the first part of the article we present a simple theoretical model. We consider an economy that is made up of a representative household and where agents are involved in three types of activities: consumption goods production, human...

La Legge 488/92 prevede che le imprese che vogliano investire nelle aree in ritardo di sviluppo possano richiedere un sussidio che copre una frazione della spesa di investimento. Gli incentivi sono assegnati attraverso delle aste competitive che tengono conto di alcuni criteri, come la...

This paper investigates the effects of investment subsidies on the accumulation decisions of a sample of Italian manufacturing firms. We use survey information on the subjective evaluation of the investment activity that the recipient firm would have undertaken, had it not been financed. We find...