The main objective of this article is to evaluate to which extent the set of national and regional cost control policies implemented in recent years in Italy have affected hospital activity. Our contribution is mainly empirical as we focus our attention on the impact that policies like hospital...

The paper presents the main results of the Eurosystem's Household Finance and Consumption Survey (HFCS) with an emphasis on the data for Italy in the international context. The paper examines households' socio-demographic characteristics, assets and income distribution, participation in real and...

Nell'ultimo decennio, ma soprattutto nella recente crisi economica mondiale, il divario tra l'industria del Mezzogiorno e quella del Centro Nord si è ampliato: gli investimenti e l'occupazione industriale si sono ridotti in misura assai più intensa che al Centro Nord; il contributo delle...

We analyze data from the Bank of Italy's most recent recruitment rounds, in an effort to explain why men consistently score better than women. We focus on the pre-screening stage of the hiring process, a multiple-choice test, where men acquire a preliminary advantage. After observing a higher...

The last few decades have been characterized by an increase in the number of years lived in bad health, lending support to the “Expansion of Morbidity” hypothesis. In this paper we propose the “Double Expansion of Morbidity” (DEM) hypothesis, arguing that not only life expectancy gains...

In this work we present some results obtained with a unique database of patient level data collected through GPs. The availability of such data opens new scenarios and paradigms for the planning and management of the health care system and for policy impact evaluation studies. The data set,...