This paper studies the non-market effects of education on crime using a panel dataset for the 20 Italian regions over the period 1980-1995. Our empirical results suggest that education reduces crime over and above its effect through labour market opportunities (employment rate and wage rate)....

This paper studies the effects of industrialization on growth and convergence dynamics in Italy. We propose a semi-parametric procedure linking growth theory with density-type studies on convergence. Our analysis suggests that absolute convergence processes do not necessarily exclude dynamics of...