We investigate the effects of civic norms and associational networks on crime rates. Civic norms may attach guilt and … variables, measurement error and spatial correlation. Italy's great variance in social and economic characteristics, its … minimise the first two problems. To tackle the last two ones, we use report-rate adjusted crime rates and estimate a spatial …

The paper estimates a conditional ß-convergence model of labor productivity growth in Italy's manufacturing industry … explain much of the geographical variability of productivity growth in manufacturing in nineteenth-century Italy …

Social Survey combined with regional data about violent crime. People who experienced during adolescence high rate of violent … crime have a lower probability of trusting others and thinking that others are trying to be helpful, and a higher …