How do people balance health/wealth concerns during a pandemic? And, how does the communication of this trade-off affect individual preferences? We address these questions using a field experiment involving around 2000 students enrolled in a large university in Italy. We design four treatments...

Do health warnings change consumer behaviour? And for how long? We address these questions by studying the effects of the 2015 WHO's warning about the carcinogenic effect of red meat consumption. We use high-frequency data and implement a difference-in-difference-in-differences model which...

We investigate behavioral responses to the generosity of Disability Insurance (DI) within the context of work compatibility. Exploiting an institutional discontinuity leading to exogenous variation in replacement rates, we use rich administrative data on the work and health histories of Italian...

Using administrative DVLA data matched with micro-data from Understanding Society - the UK Household Longitudinal Study we estimate income-related inequalities in ownership of vehicles with a set of safety features and we apply a regression-based decomposition method for rank-dependent...

This paper provides insights into the design of effective location-based policies. In the context of European regional policy, we use algorithms to predict regions that are likely to underutilize funding and identify the key determinants of their low absorptive capacity. We then use a regression...

Using nine waves of data from Understanding Society (UKHLS), we study the expansion of higher education in the UK, since the landmark Robbins Report in 1963, and its consequences for levels of and inequalities in household income, physical and mental health. We estimate fixed effects models...

In this paper, we present new evidence on the EU cohesion policy’s last concluded programming period (2007-2013). We depart from the broadly used GDP-growth approach and evaluate the multidimensional impact of EU Structural Funds (SFs) on a large battery of regional indicators including...