Nowadays, people in OECD countries spend about as much time watching television as earning a living. In this Paper I report a puzzling fact about those time uses: television viewing and work hours are positively correlated across countries. A simple model based on complementarities in the...

Paper presented at the Conference “From GDP to Well-Being: Economics on the Road to Sustainability”, Ancona, Italy, 3-5 December 2009. <p> Abstract <p> We develop a dynamic model to analyze the sources and the evolution of social participation and social capital in a growing economy characterized...</p></p>

In the city of Rome economic and territorial polarizations increased between centre and peripheral belts, paralleling suburban sprawl. Electoral data 2005-2011 highlight sharp political polarization, too. Left-wing candidates prevail where social centrality exists, i.e. in dense zones with...

In the city of Rome economic and territorial polarizations increased between centre and peripheral belts, paralleling suburban sprawl. Electoral data 2005-2011 highlight sharp political polarization, too. Left-wing candidates prevail where social centrality exists, i.e. in dense zones with...

We develop a dynamic model to analyze the sources and the evolution of social participation and social capital in a growing economy characterized by exogenous technical progress. We start from the assumption that the well-being of agents basically depends on material and relational goods....

In city districts in Rome, social and economic inequalities between centre and peripheral belts have been increasing over the last years, in parallel to the on-going suburban sprawl. Electoral data from 2000 to 2013 highlight sharp political polarization too. Votes for left-wing (right-wing)...

We investigate the relationship between social participation and the hours worked in the market. Social participation is the component of social capital that measures individuals’ engagement in groups, associations and non-governmental organizations. We provide a model of consumer choice where...

This paper studies the factors that determine unpaid labour in a voluntary organization, a political party and a trade union. Official data has been taken from Indagine Multiscopo sulla Famiglia, Aspetti della Vita Quotidiana (1997), of the National Institute of Statistics (ISTAT). In...

This paper studies the factors that determine unpaid labour in a voluntary organization, a political party and a trade union. Official data has been taken from Indagine Multiscopo sulla Famiglia, Aspetti della Vita Quotidiana (1997), of the National Institute of Statistics (ISTAT). In...