Days: Thursday, September 14th Friday, September 15th
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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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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) |
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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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) |
Keynote speaker: Johanna Rickne (SOFI, Stockholm University, Nottingham University)
Discussant: Emanuele Bracco (University of Verona)
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) Discussant: Francesca Barigozzi |
16:50 | Decoding Local Public Finance: The Interplay of the Legislature and the Executive (abstract) Discussant: Emanuele Bracco |
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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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) |
Chair: Rosella Levaggi (SIEP President). Panelists: Massimo Baldini (University of Modena and Reggio Emilia), Silvia Giannini (University of Bologna), Alberto Zanardi (University of Bologna)
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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) Discussant: Marco Alberto De Benedetto |
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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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) |
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)
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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | Tax evasion, technological progress and R&D expenditure (abstract) |
14:35 | Turning the tax lever: a composite indicator of tax expenditures (abstract) |
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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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) |