Do agglomeration or congestion effects dominate when municipalities merge government functions? I exploit an Italian policy reform, which forced municipalities below 5,000 residents to join inter-municipal communities (IMC), to estimate the effects on local real estate prices and public...

This paper investigates the causal link between education and domestic violence incidence through a Regression Discontinuity design, which exploits the 1994 Free Primary Education reform in Malawi. Using data from the 2015-16 of the Malawi Demographic and Health Survey, I find that the reform...