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Electoral cycle bias in the media coverage of corruption news

Le Moglie, Marco; Turati, Gilberto - 2018

corruption scandals in the Italian Regional Health Systems by two important national newspapers having opposite ideology, La … about corruption scandals involving left-wing politicians in the days right before the elections, while it reduces the … number of those about right episodes of corruption and without any political connection. Instead, for La Repubblica we do not …

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Impatience and crime: Evidence from the NLSY97

Basiglio, Stefania; Foresta, Alessandra; Turati, Gilberto - 2021

We empirically test the relationship between crime and impatience at the individual level exploiting data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1997 (NLSY97). Besides providing information on both violent and property crimes, NLSY97 allows to observe different behaviors sharing...

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Decentralization, Vertical Fiscal Imbalance, and Political Selection

Bordignon, Massimo; Gamalerio, Matteo; Turati, Gilberto - 2013

In a career-concern model of politics with endogenous candidacy and different types of politicians, following a decentralization reform, politicians with different skills are elected in municipalities characterized by different levels of autonomous resources. As an effect, consumer welfare...

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Stop invasion! The electoral tipping point in anti-immigrant voting

Bordignon, Massimo; Gamalerio, Matteo; Slerca, Edoardo; … - 2020

Why do anti-immigrant political parties have more success in areas that host fewer immigrants? Using regression discontinuity design, structural breaks search methods and data from a sample of Italian municipalities, we show that the relationship between the vote shares of anti-immigrant parties...

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