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new data from an income and living conditions survey carried out in 2006 by the Italian Statistics Office (ITSILC …
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We test the relationship between happiness and self-rated health in Italy. The analysis relies on a unique dataset … socio-economic phenomena. Health inequalities based on income, work status and education are relatively contained in respect … to the rest of Italy. As expected, this scales down the role of social capital. …
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Using a rich cross-sectional dataset, we estimate the effect of meetings with friends on self-perceived health, chronic conditions and limitations in daily activities of Italian employees. We address the self-selection of individuals in labour market using an Heckman selection model. Our main...
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People are shown to be “more (less) trusting as others are on average more (less) trusting” in a binary-choice-with-social-interactions model that is estimated using cross-section data from more than sixty countries, with mean trust as an explanatory variable. These endogenous effects...
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This chapter focuses on neighborhood effects in housing markets. Households in effect choose neighborhood effects, or more generally social interactions, via their location decisions, which renders them endogenous. Across several classes of models that it examines, it emphasizes how we may...
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Italy. The analysis draws on the 2000 wave of the Multipurpose Survey on Household conducted by the Italian Institute of …
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This paper tests whether factors referring to socio-economic aspects, family heritage, social interaction, habits and customs explain differences among violent and non-violent prisoners. Some of the results of the probit estimation show that economic issues are the main factors that stimulate...
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employs data provided by the Income and Living Conditions Survey for the United Kingdom carried out by the European Union …
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rates - using a large panel of patients residing in a local health authority in Italy. These data allow us to follow …
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