We examine the determinants of obesity and its role in influencing early school leaving amongst adolescents in the city of Salerno and its province in Southern Italy. A human capital investment model is employed and this provides a framework within which to analyse the interrelated [`]decisions'...

Taking into account the economic consequences of obesity highlighted in literature (Cawley, 2004), this study investigates the association between overweight and skill attainment at the university of Salerno in Italy, with particular focus on gender differences. Our findings indicate a...

This paper investigates the role of women’s education in the transition towards having a second child in Italy by using the Longitudinal Investigation on Italian Families (ILFI). By implementing a simple event-history model, we find a negative effect of women’s education on the transition...

<i> Caratteristiche del lavoro notturno in Italia </i> (di Adriana Barone e Annamaria Nese) - ABSTRACT: The main aim of this paper is to underline the importance of night work in Italy, as previously done by Hamermesh (1995) for the U.S. and Germany, giving evidence that night work is mainly performed...

The present paper analyses the probability of night work among Italian females. Using data from the 2010 LFS our results indicate that in Italy women's choices are affected by family structure: the probability of working at night is lower when children are less than two years of age, but it...

An insight into the risks to life or health which workers are exposed to whilst at work is usually provided by risk perceptions by the workers (e.g. Viscusi, 1978; Viscusi-Moore, 1991; Grund, 2000). However, the usefulness of workers’ beliefs is limited when trying to understand the real risks posed...