The 2016 earthquake in Central Italy affected a wide peripheral area. Six years afterwards, the resident population in the municipalities involved considerably decreased, but assessing to what extent this was due to the earthquake is not straightforward as the demographic trend was already...

Italian Abstract: A sei anni dal sisma del Centro Italia, la popolazione residente nell’Area del cratere è significativamente diminuita. Stabilire in che misura il terremoto vi abbia avuto effetto è complicato dal fatto che la dinamica demografica di quei territori era declinante già da...

In this paper we estimate peer effects in parental leaves (PLs), analyzing whether mothers' choices may be influenced by prior decisions made by their female colleagues. We identify peer effects through an exogenous variation in the probability that peers take a PL driven by a reform implemented...

This paper provides a political-economic model to study the impact of low-skilled immigration on the host country's education system, which is characterized by sources of school funding, the average expenditure per pupil, and the type of parents who are more likely to send their children to...

Both environmental quality and health care expenditure are determinants of health and life expectancy, but the support for them appears to be different according to the electors' age, with a relatively larger support for health expenditure among the elderly as it is generally effective on a...

A political-economic model is provided to study the impact of low-skilled immigration on the receiving country's education system, in terms of sources of school funding, expenditure per pupil, and type of parents who are more likely to send children to privately funded schools. The education...

We study different extended formulations for the set (formule) in order to tackle the feasibility problem for the set (formule). Here the goal is not to find an improved polyhedral relaxation of conv(X+), but rather to reformulate in such a way that the new variables introduced provide good...

Disoccupazione e crescita economica sono due temi che soltanto di recente sono stati trattati congiuntamente, in seguito ai fenomeni di persistente disoccupazione nelle economie europee. La Nuova Teoria della Crescita offre in tal senso un supporto strutturale particolarmente adatto a studiare...