-being. In particular, we look at the effects on health inequalities following the assignment of larger tax power to the Italian … Regions for financing their health expenditure, starting from the end of the Nineties. Exploiting large differences in the …-regional disparities in health outcomes. However, the degree of economic development – on which depends the actual fiscal autonomy from …

health of individuals (as measured by the height of conscripts) and its disparities between individuals and regions in Italy …", that is I hypothesize that exposure to malaria in utero or during childhood has persistent effects on health. Periods under … scrutiny in this paper are the last two decades of the XIX century, a period without major public health interventions, and the …

. In this paper we exploit a reform aimed at increasing regional tax autonomy in Italy to provide quasi …-experimental evidence on the impact of fiscal decentralization on health disparities between- and within-regions. Our findings, robust to a …