SIEP 2023: XXXV SIEP CONFERENCE 2023 "NEW CHALLENGES FOR THE WELFARE STATE"
PROGRAM

Days: Thursday, September 14th Friday, September 15th

Thursday, September 14th

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09:00-09:15 Welcome address

Speakers: Roberto Giacobazzi (Prorector of the University of Verona), Giam Pietro Cipriani (Director of the Department of Economics, University of Verona), Rosella Levaggi (President of the Italian Society of Public Economics - SIEP), Claudio Zoli (Chair of the Scientific Committee)

09:15-10:45 Session 1A: Phd Student session I
09:15
Regulation of Social Media and the Evolution of content: a cross-platform analysis (abstract)
Discussant: Federico Innocenti
09:40
Education, fake news and the political budget cycle (abstract)
Discussant: Roberto Ricciuti
09:15-10:45 Session 1B: Taxation I
09:15
Bunching at Kink Points of the Income Tax Schedule with Informal Economy and the Public Provision of Services: Evidence from Brazil (abstract)
09:35
Tax Cut and Tax Evasion: Evidence from a Natural Experiment on Italian Municipalities (abstract)
09:55
Do people really dislike wealth taxes more than other types of taxes? Evidence from a survey-experiment representative of the Italian population (abstract)
09:15-10:45 Session 1C: Institutions I
09:15
Response, Awareness and Requester Identity in FOI law: evidence from a field experiment (abstract)
09:35
Does countries’ governance quality affect the type of governance of Public-private partnerships? Empirical evidence using World Bank data on developing countries. (abstract)
09:55
Conditional political legislation cycles (abstract)
10:15
Do Late Donors Learn from Early Donors in Crowdfunding? (abstract)
09:15-10:45 Session 1D: Education I
09:15
Lost in education. The effect of COVID-19 on hidden drop-out (abstract)
09:35
The Dynamics in College Graduation Models: Implications for Educational Policies and for the Revenue of Postsecondary Institutions (abstract)
09:55
The long-term returns to universal preschool access: Evidence from Scuola Materna in Italy (abstract)
10:15
Good friends and bad teachers: the gender gap in STEM and the channels of influence on college choice (abstract)
09:15-10:45 Session 1E: Public procurement I
09:15
Is the bigger the better? An analysis on public procurement efficiency in Italy (abstract)
09:35
Hiding behind the threshold: anti-mafia screening policy and public procurement in Italian municipalities (abstract)
09:55
How “one-size-fits-all” public works contract does it better? An assessment of infrastructure provision in Italy (abstract)
10:15
Procurement managers and effective tendering: The case of Italian public works’ contracts (abstract)
09:15-10:45 Session 1F: Environment I
09:15
Reforming Energy Excise Duties: A Possible Balance Between Environmental and Redistributive Objectives (abstract)
09:35
The role of risk and trust attitudes in explaining individual energy affordability perception: Evidence from Europe (abstract)
09:55
CO2 emissions and Inequality: The Income-Wealth-Emissions Triangle Evidence from Italy (abstract)
10:15
The effects on health of unequal exposure to fine particulate matter in Southern European cities (abstract)
09:15-10:45 Session 1G: Labor I
09:15
Can Tax Incentives Bring Brains Back? Returnees Tax Schemes and High-Skilled Migration in Italy (abstract)
09:35
Job insecurity and Precautionary Savings: An Italian Natural Experiment (abstract)
09:55
Gender job polarisation (abstract)
10:15
Optimal Unemployment Insurance with Interfirm Subsidies and Labor Reallocation (abstract)
09:15-10:45 Session 1H: Health I
09:15
Patient migration for adequate cancer treatments: an analysis of the geographical mobility within the Italian National Health System (abstract)
09:35
Decentralization and efficiency: the case of differentiated autonomy in Italy (abstract)
09:55
Do higher quality hospitals deliver more appropriate care? Evidence from caesarean sections in England (abstract)
10:15
Do all road lead to Rome? Exploring the reliability and consistency of outcome-based indicators for ranking the quality of Italian hospitals (abstract)
09:15-10:45 Session 1I: Inequality I
09:15
Predicting the absorptive capacity of EU Cohesion funds: a machine learning approach (abstract)
09:35
Strengths and Limitations of using Machine Learning in estimating Inequality of Opportunity (abstract)
09:55
Inequality of Opportunity in South Asia: A Long Run Analysis (abstract)
10:45-11:15Coffee/Tea Break
11:15-12:45 Session 2A: Phd Student session II
11:15
The Impact of Center-based Childcare Intensity on Children’s Non-cognitive Development: Evidence from the UKHLS (abstract)
Discussant: Francesco Andreoli
11:40
Patience and Intention of Having More Children: A Causal Evidence from Indonesia (abstract)
Discussant: Eleonora Matteazzi
12:05
Did male and female leaders react differently to the pandemic? Evidence from local public finance (abstract)
Discussant: Paola Bertoli
11:15-12:45 Session 2B: Social Interaction I
11:15
Group Antagonism, Social Learning, and Opinion Dynamics (abstract)
11:35
Priming anti-coordination with social expectations (abstract)
11:55
Out of sight, out of mind: Moral accounting, self-image concerns and information avoidance. (abstract)
12:15
Norms, guilt, and religion: public good contribution among Catholics and Protestants (abstract)
11:15-12:45 Session 2C: Health II
11:15
Overseas GPs and Prescription Behaviour in England (abstract)
11:35
Online health information seeking behavior, healthcare access and health status during exceptional times (abstract)
11:55
Social interactions, loneliness and collective health: A new angle on an old debate (abstract)
12:15
Inequalities in the access to general practitioners and specialists: evidence from Italy (abstract)
11:15-12:45 Session 2D: Public choice I
11:15
The Impact of Government Size on Corruption: A Meta Regression Analysis of the Literature (abstract)
11:35
Populists at work. Italian municipal finance under M5S governments (abstract)
11:55
Political polarization and local budget decisions: Evidence from Italy (abstract)
12:15
EU funds in places with low-quality institution (abstract)
11:15-12:45 Session 2E: Health III
11:15
Enforcement spillovers under different networks: the case of quotas for workers with disabilities in Brazil (abstract)
11:35
Legal Status and Voluntary Abortions by Immigrants (abstract)
11:55
The Illness Trap: Impact of Disability Benefits on the Willingness to Receive HCV Treatment (abstract)
12:15
An evaluation of the effects of tax credits for housing efficiency with administrative micro data (abstract)
11:15-12:45 Session 2F: Environment II
11:15
Relational Voluntary Environmental Agreements with Unverifiable Emissions (abstract)
11:35
Fossil-Fuel Traffic Abatement and NO2 Urban Pollution: What Covid-19 Lockdown Predicts about the Benefits of the EU Zero Emission Vehicles Resolution (abstract)
11:55
Explaining the stringency of environmental policies: domestic determinants or international policy coordination? (abstract)
11:15-12:45 Session 2G: Health IV
11:15
Understanding the Links between Irrigation, Agricultural Labor and Malaria in sub-Saharan Africa (abstract)
11:35
School Starting Age and ADHD (abstract)
11:55
Energy Poverty and Health. Evidence from SHARE data (abstract)
12:15
Social capital and vaccination compliance: Evidence from Italy (abstract)
11:15-12:45 Session 2H: Public policies I
11:15
Why social benefits fail to target poverty. Empirical evidence on target efficiency of the Italian minimum income scheme (abstract)
11:35
High Inflation and Nominal Wage Rigidity: The Implicit Response of the Italian Tax-Benefit System (abstract)
11:55
Behavioural Responses to Disability Insurance Generosity: Evidence from administrative records on CVD shocks (abstract)
12:15
Paying Youths to Enjoy Art: the Italian Cultural Voucher ‘18app’ (abstract)
11:15-12:45 Session 2I: Public choice II
11:15
Money talks: the effect of a pay rise on local politicians’ quality (abstract)
11:35
The election campaign for parliament in the age of the Internet (abstract)
11:55
Election Driven Tax Evasion in developing economies (abstract)
12:15
Politics and city growth in Italy: do connections matter? (abstract)
11:15-12:45 Session 2L: Inequality II
11:15
Surnames in local newspapers and social mobility (abstract)
11:35
Reconciling equality of opportunity and aversion to income inequality (abstract)
11:55
Put yourself in else’s shoes. The importance of family composition on income inequality and poverty. (abstract)
12:45-14:10Lunch
14:10-15:35 Session Plenary Lecture: What can we learn from local politicians?

Keynote speakerJohanna Rickne (SOFI, Stockholm University, Nottingham University)

Discussant: Emanuele Bracco (University of Verona)

15:35-16:00Coffee/Tea Break
16:00-17:30 Session 3A: Phd Student session III
16:00
Public Health Efficiency and Well-being in Italian Provinces (abstract)
Discussant: Marina Di Giacomo
16:25
External Reference Pricing with Discounts: Does It Pay to Keep a Secret? (abstract)
16:50
Decoding Local Public Finance: The Interplay of the Legislature and the Executive (abstract)
Discussant: Emanuele Bracco
16:00-17:30 Session 3B: Inequality III
16:00
Individual evaluation of income growth accounting for internal and external reference points (abstract)
16:20
Divergence measurement (abstract)
16:40
The measurement of distributional divergence (abstract)
17:00
Why point elasticities of poverty may still be of~non-negligible interest (abstract)
16:00-17:30 Session 3C: Social interaction II
16:00
Alternative worldviews, distrust, and populism (abstract)
16:20
Economic Distress and Polarization (abstract)
16:40
Communication and the emergence of a unidimensional world (abstract)
17:00
Immigration restriction and the transfer of religiosity to the second generation (abstract)
16:00-17:30 Session 3D: Public policies II
16:00
The Influence of Intergenerational Transfers on Wealth Inequality in Rich Countries (abstract)
16:20
Demographics, Political Agenda and Public Budget (abstract)
16:40
Tastes for inter-generational transfers among Belgians, Italians, and Spaniards at Macro and Micro levels (abstract)
17:00
Work after retirement in Italy: Evidence from merged survey data and administrative records (abstract)
16:00-17:30 Session 3E: Visit INPS
16:00
Managerial Input and Firm Performance. Evidence from a Policy Experiment. (abstract)
16:20
The Role of Industries in Rising Inequality (abstract)
16:40
Friday Morning Fever. Evidence from a Randomized Experiment on Sick Leave Monitoring in the Public Sector (abstract)
16:00-17:30 Session 3F: IAERE
16:00
Social and market acceptance of Near Zero Emission technologies in Buildings: a comparative analysis of Ireland and Italy (abstract)
16:20
Political influence and firms’ behaviour in the framework of transition risk: evidence from a survey of EU enterprises (abstract)
16:40
Consumer acceptance for consumer level carbon-related policies: an exploration among Italian food consumers (abstract)
17:00
Buying or performing abatement: environmental policy and welfare when commitment is (not) credible* (abstract)
16:00-17:30 Session 3G: Gender I
16:00
Gender Quota and Violence against Politicians (abstract)
16:20
Are Female Politicians Attacked More than Males, and Why? Evidence from Italy (abstract)
16:40
Fiscal budgets as high-dimensional data: An application to Italian Municipality (abstract)
17:00
The Impact of the 2017 Women's March on Female Political Representation (abstract)
16:00-17:30 Session 3H: Institutions II
16:00
Quality of institutions, rent-seeking and inter-jurisdictional cooperation (abstract)
16:20
Fiscal Rules in the European Union: Less Is More (abstract)
16:40
The Determinants Of The Financial Distress Of Italian Municipalities: How Much Is It Due To Inadequate Resources? (abstract)
17:00
Fiscal rules and public spending efficiency: evidence from Italian municipalities (abstract)
16:00-17:30 Session 3I: Health V
16:00
Healthcare systems, primary care orientation and public-private mix: theory and empirics (abstract)
16:20
The substitution between primary and emergency care in individuals with chronic conditions: evidence form a structural model (abstract)
16:40
Removing barriers to telehealth: the impact of pandemic waivers, interstate medical licensure compacts, and health insurance reimbursement policy on telehealth practices in the US. Empirical evidence from Household Pulse Survey data. (abstract)
17:00
The Socioeconomic Status Gradient in Pain: A Cross-Country Analysis (abstract)
16:00-17:30 Session 3L: NERI
16:00
Spatial Location of Gas Distribution Networks and Economies of Scale: Evidence from a Panel Study of Italian data (abstract)
16:20
Dynamic Regulation of Public Franchises with Imperfectly Correlated Demand Shocks (abstract)
16:40
€2 Gas! Tax Holidays, Incidence Heterogeneity, and Market Power (abstract)
17:00
Two-dimensional sequential screening (abstract)
17:30-18:10 Session Round Table I: Verso la riforma fiscale: orientamenti e aspetti critici dopo la legge delega

Chair: Rosella Levaggi (SIEP President). Panelists: Massimo Baldini (University of Modena and Reggio Emilia), Silvia Giannini (University of Bologna), Alberto Zanardi (University of Bologna)

20:15-23:00Social Dinner
Friday, September 15th

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09:30-11:00 Session 4A: Phd Student session IV
09:30
The effect of distance learning due to Covid-19 on INVALSI scores of 5th and 8th graders in Italy (abstract)
Discussant: Vincenzo Carrieri
09:55
Nonlinearities in educational transmission: a segmented analysis (abstract)
Discussant: Ylenia Brilli
10:20
With honors. University Honors Programs and Graduates’ Careers (abstract)
09:30-11:00 Session 4B: Education II
09:30
High School and Exam Scores: Does Their Predictive Validity for Academic Performance Vary with Programme Selectivity? (abstract)
09:50
University students' mobility and the role of accommodation services and grants in Italy (abstract)
10:10
To whom it may concern: the value of auditing grade assessment on educational and labour market outcomes (abstract)
10:30
Whose Choice? Child-parent interactions and choice set heterogeneity in schooling decisions (abstract)
09:30-11:00 Session 4C: Taxation II
09:30
The Unintended Consequence of Taxing Digital Platforms: a Race to the Top? (abstract)
09:50
Profit-taxation relationship: a nonlinear response inside the sectors (abstract)
10:10
Inverting the chain? VAT collection regimes and tax compliance (abstract)
10:30
VAT Cuts as Emergency Policy Intervention: Evidence from the UK Case (abstract)
09:30-11:00 Session 4D: Gender II
09:30
Trends in the motherhood earnings gap across Europe. From average to distributional effects, from individual to country-level analysis (abstract)
09:50
Research Similarity and Women in Academia (abstract)
10:10
Political supply or citizens’ demand? The gender political determinants of early childcare provision in Italy (abstract)
10:30
Gender Differences in Policy Literacy: Evidence from the Recovery and Resilience Plan (abstract)
09:30-11:00 Session 4E: Public choice III
09:30
One Person, One Vote: Assessing the Impact of the 17th Amendment on Senator Speeches and Representation (abstract)
09:50
Wasted years. Exposure to democracy and MEPs attitude towards EU integration (abstract)
10:10
Explaining split-ticket voting in concurrent European and local elections in Italy (abstract)
10:30
Coordination without the party: electoral and legislative consequences of the “Gentiloni Pact” in Italy (abstract)
09:30-11:00 Session 4F: Environment III
09:30
Civic sense and Contribution to Recycling Activity: Evidence from Italy (abstract)
09:50
Green Investment and Kantian Morality (abstract)
10:10
Exploring the relationship between Risk Attitudes, Trust, and Self- Reported Ability to Reduce Energy Use in Europe (abstract)
10:30
Dissecting Environmental Efficiency: The Role of Technology Adoption and Usage (abstract)
09:30-11:00 Session 4G: Insititutions III
09:30
Road to Division: Ethnic Favouritism in the Provision of Road Infrastructure in Ethiopia (abstract)
09:50
Protests and Police Militarization (abstract)
10:10
War Violence Exposure and Tax Compliance (abstract)
10:30
Expected Foreign Military Intervention and Demand for State-Building: Evidence from Mali (abstract)
09:30-11:00 Session 4H: Inequality IV
09:30
Equal opportunities in many-to-one matching markets (abstract)
09:50
On multidimentional inequality with variable household weight (abstract)
10:10
Evaluating allocations of opportunities (abstract)
10:30
The measurement of segregation sensitive spatial income deprivation (abstract)
09:30-11:00 Session 4I: Labor II
09:30
Work Interruptions and Medium-Term Labour Market Outcomes of Older Workers During the COVID-19 Pandemic (abstract)
09:50
Firm-Level Effects of Reductions in Working Hours (abstract)
10:10
Incentivi pubblici e investimenti innovativi delle imprese (abstract)
09:30-11:00 Session 4L: Insititutions IV
09:30
Could financial education be a universal social policy? A simulation of potential influences on inequality levels (abstract)
09:50
Financial literacy and risk protection during the Covid-19 pandemic (abstract)
10:10
Trust in public institutions and the profile of inequality: a worldwide perspective (abstract)
10:30
What explains institutional trust in Latin America? Understanding the role of the urban-rural divide. (abstract)
11:00-11:30Coffee/Tea Break
11:30-12:45 Session Round Table II: La guerra, l'Europa, le politiche

Chair: Roberto Ricciuti (University of Verona) Panelists: Raul Caruso (University Cattolica del Sacro Cuore), Alessandro Fontana (Centro Studi Confindustria), Nona Mikhelidze (Istituto Affari Internazionali), Lucia Visconti Parisio (University of Milan Bicocca)

12:45-14:15Lunch
14:15-15:25 Session 5A: Perceptions, information and policy preferences
14:15
Pay-as-they-get-in: Attitudes towards Migrants and Pension Systems (abstract)
14:35
From Personal Values to Social Norms (abstract)
14:55
Gender inequality over the life cycle, information provision and policy preferences (abstract)
14:15-15:25 Session 5B: Public Procurement II
14:15
Procuring Survival (abstract)
14:35
Velocizzare i cantieri delle opere pubbliche in Italia: il nuovo Codice degli appalti alla prova (abstract)
14:55
Public Procurement and the Risk of Severe Weather Events (abstract)
14:15-15:25 Session 5C: Public choice IV
14:15
Political manipulation behind the COVID-19 ‘color code’ in Italy? (abstract)
14:35
Do Medical Doctors make different Health Care Ministers? (abstract)
14:55
Do green parties affect local environmental outcomes? (abstract)
14:15-15:25 Session 5D: Inequality V
14:15
The Geography of Intergenerational Education Mobility in Italy: Trends and Mediating Factors (abstract)
14:35
Inequality of opportunity in children’s human capital development (abstract)
14:55
Inequality in health status during the COVID-19 in the UK: does the impact of the second lockdown policy matter? (abstract)
14:15-15:25 Session 5E: Public policies III
14:15
Optimal tax evasion and the dynamics of public debt (abstract)
14:35
Grandparental childcare, family allowances and retirement policies (abstract)
14:55
Fiscal Knowledge and its Impact on Revealed MWTP in COVID times: Evidence from Survey Data (abstract)
14:15-15:25 Session 5F: Taxation III
14:15
Tax evasion, technological progress and R&D expenditure (abstract)
14:35
Turning the tax lever: a composite indicator of tax expenditures (abstract)
14:15-15:25 Session 5G: History
14:15
The political economy of MPs in the Kingdom of Italy (abstract)
14:35
The Whole is Other than the Sum of the Parts. Municipal Mergers and Economic Development in Fascist Italy (abstract)
14:55
Social Adaptation to Diseases and Inequality: Historical Evidence from Malaria in Italy (abstract)
14:15-15:25 Session 5H: Labor III
14:15
Erasmus Program and Labor Market Outcomes: Evidence from a Fuzzy Regression Discontinuity Design (abstract)
14:35
Competences of degree programs and graduates’ labor market performance (abstract)
14:55
Women's retirement behavior and pension wealth: the unintended effect of a recent pension reform (abstract)
14:15-15:25 Session 5I: Health VI
14:15
Liberalizing the Opening of New Pharmacies and Hospitalizations (abstract)
14:35
Not a Big Win! Do Restrictions on Gambling Supply Reduce Addiction? (abstract)
14:55
The Impact of a Cost-containment Measure on the Quality of Regional Health Services in Italy: a Parametric and a Non-parametric Approach (abstract)
15:30-16:40 Session 6A: Phd Student session V
15:30
The Effects of the Reverse Charge Mechanism on the VAT Gap (abstract)
Discussant: Paolo Di Caro
15:55
Assessing bidding zone configurations: evidence from the Nord Pool market (abstract)
Discussant: Alessio D'Amato
16:20
Estimating the Elasticity of Turnover from Bunching: Preferential Tax Regimes for Solo Self-employed in Italy (abstract)
Discussant: Claudio Zoli
15:30-16:40 Session 6B: Institutions III
15:30
The Local Curse: Spillover Effects of Mayoral Victories in Competitive Autocracies (abstract)
15:50
Civic engagement and policy outcomes (abstract)
16:10
The Selection of Criminally Charged Politicians: Evidence from Brazil (abstract)
15:30-16:40 Session 6C: Experimental Economics
15:30
Are Hopeful Narratives more convincing? An experiment (abstract)
15:50
Does the origin of the seller matter? Experimental evidence from real-estate advertisements (abstract)
16:10
Dynamic inconsistency under ambiguity: an experiment (abstract)
15:30-16:40 Session 6D: Macroeconomics
15:30
Meet Your Future: Experimental Evidence on the Labor Market Eects of Mentors (abstract)
15:50
Measuring Income Instability: Unveiling Short-Term Fluctuations with Monthly Data (abstract)
16:10
Ex-post and real-time estimations of the output gap: A new assessment of fiscal procyclicality in the Eurozone (abstract)
15:30-16:40 Session 6E: Institutions IV
15:30
The value of the UNESCO World Heritage label: an analysis on travel guidebooks (abstract)
15:50
Clipping wings of freedom: Unjust detentions in Italy and the (in)efficiency of the justice system (abstract)
16:10
Wealth Inequality and the Social Cost of Law Enforcement (abstract)
15:30-16:40 Session 6F: Regional and Urban economics
15:30
The Impact of Italy’s Strategy for Inner Areas on Depopulation and Industrial Growth: A Staggered Difference-in-Difference Analysis with Spatial Spillover Effects (abstract)
15:50
Urban Creativity: An evaluation combining DEA with SFA models (abstract)
16:10
High Speed Railways and Firms TFP: Evidence from Italy (abstract)
15:30-16:40 Session 6G: Labor IV
15:30
Entrepreneurs’ Impatience and Digital Technologies (abstract)
15:50
Employment Responses to the Withdrawal of Unemployment Benefits (abstract)
16:10
Understanding occupational safety and health (OSH): an empirical analysis of occupational accidents in Italy (abstract)
15:30-16:40 Session 6H: Health VII
15:30
Brand loyalty for statins (abstract)
15:50
Mental Health and Gender Stereotypes: Experimental Evidence (abstract)
16:10
Has the COVID-Vaccination Success Increased our Marginal Willingness to Pay Taxes? (abstract)
16:40-17:30Coffee/Tea Break