Bertocchi, Graziella; Bozzano, Monica - Dipartimento di Economia "Marco Biagi", Università … - 2013
We investigate the historical determinants of the education gender gap in Italy in the late nineteenth century, immediately following the country’s Unification. We use a comprehensive newly-assembled database including 69 provinces over twenty-year sub-samples covering the 1861-1901 period. We...