This paper explores the determinants of the heterogeneity in the expenditure behaviors of the Italian households, using the Households Expenditure Survey provided by the Italian National Institute of Statistics (ISTAT) for the year 2005. We assume that differences among consumers are associated...

This study is a contribution to the ongoing debate on the performance of various non-survey techniques for constructing sub-territorial Input-Output tables. Three aspects of the behaviour of the methods are analysed: performances in reproducing ‘true' input coefficients, variability of error,...

Despite the wealth of micro-macro data on short-term demographic dynamics, the impact of metropolitan growth and economic downturns on local fertility is still under-investigated in advanced economies. Recent studies in low-fertility contexts have assumed suburban birth rates as being...