This paper investigates whether the extension of the right of self-defense outside private property affects crime-related outcomes. In 2005, Florida was the first US state to introduce the Stand Your Ground Law. The law gives the right to individuals to use reasonable force, including deadly...

In this paper we investigate the effect of standard and non-standard monetary policy implemented by the ECB on income inequality in Italy. We use for the first time the survey microdata on Income and Living Conditions (EU-SILC, Istat) in a repeated cross-section experiment to build measures of...

In this paper we investigate the effect of standard and non-standard monetary policy implemented by the ECB on income inequality in Italy. We use a novel database based on the survey micro level data on Income and Living Conditions (EU-SILC, Istat) in a repeated cross-section experiment which...

We investigate the effects of different policies implemented during the pandemic on real-time spatial inequalities in the US. We use a novel database built using anonymized data from the private sector, which enables us to compute daily measures of spending inequality at county level. Using a...