Reweighting is a popular statistical technique to deal with inference in presence of a nonrandom sample. In the literature, various reweighting estimators have been proposed. This paper presents the author-written Stata routine treatrew, which implements the reweighting on the propensity-score...

In recent years, much interest has focused on network analysis. This study presents and applies to real data a new user-written Stata command called datanet, which facilitates the dataset organization for the purpose of network analysis. Given a fixed number of units (or nodes) belonging to the...

This paper presents a counter-factual model identifying Average Treatment Effects (ATEs) by Conditional Mean Independence when externality (or neighbourhood) effects are incorporated within the traditional potential outcome model. As such, it tries to generalize the usual approach, widely used...

The relationship between decentralization and the quality of governments is one of the core issues of decentralization studies. This paper aims to make two contributions to this research. Firstly, we conduct an empirical analysis at the local level, covering 174 regions across the European...

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The paper explores the impact of a specific R&D policy tool, the Italian “Fondo per le Agevolazioni della Ricerca” (FAR), on industrial R&D and technological output at firm level. Our objective is threefold: first, identifying econometrically the presence/absence of private R&D investment...

This work presents a Social Accounting Matrix (SAM) for Italy including, for the first time, an economic account of the non-profit sector. The year it refers to is 1999. Once provided a statistical definition of the non-profit sector and how I include it in the framework, I then go on to set out...