This paper carries out an investigation into the socio-economic determinants of childbearing decisions made by couples in Italy. The analysis accounts for the characteristics of both possible parents. Our results do not support established theoretical predictions according to which the increase...

Socio-economic performance differs not only across countries but within countries too and can persist even after religion, language, and formal institutions are long shared. One interpretation of these disparities is that successful regions are characterized by higher levels of trust, and, more...

Socio-economic performance differs not only across countries but within countries too and can persist even after religion, language, and formal institutions are long shared. One interpretation of these disparities is that successful regions are characterized by higher levels of trust, and, more...

Advertising has a major effect on individual investors’ decisions. Financial instruments tend to be advertised more when market sentiment is high as investors are more willing to buy. Importantly, mechanisms that affect the relationship between market sentiment and advertising activity are...

Natural disasters put an enormous strain on communities abilities to cooperate. Resilience, the ability to recover from crises, is based on pre-existing prosocial attitudes of communities and it is what can allow to buffer the effects of the disaster, determining completely different dynamics...