Cooperatives are characterised by mutual-benefit coordination mechanisms aimed at the fulfilment of members’ participation rights and welfare, consistently with the normative principles of democratic involvement, independence and care for the community. This ideal situation may find, in...

In questo wp tratterò di tre questioni principali. Dapprima, mi occuperò di portare ragioni a sostegno della tesi secondo cui lo sviluppo locale necessita, nelle attuali condizioni storiche, di banche del territorio, come appunto sono le BCC. Passerò poi a discutere quali difficoltà...

Dalla fine degli anni '90, in Italia, il Commercio Equo e Solidale ha visto la sua popolarità e riconoscibilità crescere esponenzialmente. Il fenomeno si è manifestato attraverso elevati tassi di crescita di organizzazioni di importazione e distribuzione, l'elevato numero di nuove aperture di...

The public health literature focusing on the detrimental effects of social isolation has shown that the quantity of social connections is positively correlated with individual health. Drawing on pooled cross-sectional data, we test this hypothesis on a representative sample of the Italian...

We experimentally study the effect of financial education on investment attitudes in a large sample of high school students in Italy. Students in the treated classes were taught a course in finance and interviewed before and after the study, while controls were only interviewed. Our principal...

We provide non experimental evidence of the relevance of sociability on subjective wellbeing by investigating the determinants of life satisfaction on a large sample of Europeans aged above 50. We document that voluntary work, religious attendance, helping friends/neighbours and participation to...

Very few contributions have dealt with the analysis of specific determinants of social capital accumulation and destruction. Even if limited in scale, the analysis of precise historical events can help in discerning the dynamics of social capital and its persistence. The case of Italian...

This paper studies intergenerational transmission of cognitive abilities from parents to children. We create a measure of parental cognitive evolution across time, which combines cognitive tests scores obtained at the age of 16 with the ones at the age of 50. We are thus able to identify...

We test the relationship between happiness and self-rated health in Italy. The analysis relies on a unique dataset collected through the administration of a questionnaire to a representative sample (n = 817) of the population of the Italian Province of Trento in March 2011. Based on probit...

A seguito di un processo di frammentazione spaziale e sociale che ha coinvolto la città con la conseguente crescita di diseguaglianza sociale e il sorgere di nuove forme di povertà, diversi interventi di rigenerazione urbana sono stati programmati con l'obiettivo di riattivare la crescita...