This work presents and discusses some of the most important social indicators (height, education, life expectancy and human development index), referring to the Italian regions for the period spanning from 1871 to 2001. According to the data, there was a catching-up process of Southern Italy...

During the 90’s different academic works have pointed to an increase of social inequalities in France. The first part of the following paper examines the question through a synthesis of the different statistical data and analysis published on the matter since the beginning of the 80’s. It...

Broad differences in life expectancy are observed across countries and socio-demographic groups. This paper reviews the evidence for Italy on the level and development of these inequalities and discusses the strength and possible determinants of the relationship between life expectancy and...

Italian Abstract: In questo lavoro si valuta la dimensione del mercato illegale della cannabis in Italia e le entrate fiscali potenziali in caso di liberalizzazione. Rispetto a precedenti studi, si considera la elasticità al prezzo della domanda di cannabis e la competizione della criminalità...

Tra i paesi del Mediterraneo esistono talvolta differenze profonde nei livelli di sviluppo. Queste differenze influenzano i processi demografici e questi a loro volta influiscono sui divari di sviluppo. Nel lavoro si esamina il caso dell’Albania e quello della Grecia che alla fine della...

This paper is aimed at evaluating the incidence of measurement error on the main variables collected in the Bank of Italy�s Survey of Household Income and Wealth (SHIW). The results are especially relevant to researchers using the data for economic analysis, since they need to take data...