Lots of studies were produced in the past decade on the importance of the quality of the institutions for economic development. Several authors focused on the indicators provided by Doing Business (World Bank) to highlight the main factors favouring or rather limiting the economic development....

Renewed attention was recently devoted to the theory and empirical evidence about the consumption function, to derive a more comprehensive model suitable for estimation purposes. This note provides new empirical evidence on the divorce variable in Italy for the period 1971-2000. By considering...