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Multitask Agents and Incentives : The Case of Teaching and Research for University Professors

De Philippis, Marta - 2016

This paper evaluates the behavioural responses of multitask agents to the provision of incentives skewed towards one task only. It studies the effects of significant research incentives for university professors on the way university faculty members allocate their efforts between teaching and...

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Does the Expansion of Higher Education Increase the Equality of Educational Opportunities? Evidence from Italy

Bratti, Massimiliano; Checchi, Daniele; De Blasio, Guido - 2008

-secondary education opportunities. It examines Italy's experience during the 1990s, when policy changes prompted universities to offer a …

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Schooling and Youth Mortality : Learning from a Mass Military Exemption

Cipollone, Piero; Rosolia, Alfonso - 2011

We examine the relationship between education and mortality in a young population of Italian males. In 1981 several cohorts of young men from specific southern towns were unexpectedly exempted from compulsory military service after a major quake hit the region. Comparisons of exempt cohorts from...

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The Time-varying Risk of Italian GDP

Busetti, Fabio - 2020

The uncertainty surrounding economic forecasts is generally related to multiple sources of risks, of domestic and … uncertainty have strong explanatory power for both left and right tail. Their usefulness is supported also in a pseudo real … uncertainty in more recent years …

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Are the Log-Returns of Italian Open-End Mutual Funds Normally Distributed? A Risk Assessment Perspective

Bianchi, Michele Leonardo - 2014

In this paper we conduct an empirical analysis of daily log-returns of Italian open-end mutual funds and their respective benchmarks in the period from February 2007 to June 2013. First, we estimate the classical normal-based model on the log-returns of a large set of funds. Then we compare it...

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Fiscal Policy Uncertainty and the Business Cycle : Time Series Evidence from Italy

Anzuini, Alessio; Rossi, Luca; Tommasino, Pietro - 2017

Economic uncertainty is an important factor behind macroeconomic fluctuations: in an uncertain environment, firms … save. In the present paper, we study the effects of the uncertainty which arises from fiscal policy decisions. We propose a … new measure of fiscal policy uncertainty (FPU). In particular, we estimate a fiscal reaction function, allowing the …

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Raising Aspirations and Higher Education : Evidence from the UK’s Widening Participation Policy

Rizzica, Lucia - 2019

This paper investigates the relationship between aspirations and inequality in higher education participation. Using a regression discontinuity design, I evaluate the impact of a nationwide UK policy aimed at raising aspirations towards college education in pupils from disadvantaged backgrounds...

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Immigration and Crime : An Empirical Analysis

Bianchi, Milo - 2009

Italy. According to these estimates, immigration increases only the incidence of robberies and has no effect on all other …

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Educational Choices and the Selection Process before and after Compulsory Schooling

Mocetti, Sauro - 2008

The aim of this paper is to analyze the selection process at work before and after compulsory schooling by assessing the determinants of school failures, dropouts and upper secondary school decisions of young Italians. The dataset is built combining individual data by the Labor Force Survey and...

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Balancing Work and Family in Italy : New Mothers' Employment Decisions after Childbirth

Casadio, Piero - 2008

of the low female employment rate in Italy. Data from the 2002 Italian Birth Sample Survey show that about 20 per cent of …

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