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Replication Data for: "Social Ties in Academia: A Friend is a Treasure"
No full textReplication Data for: "Social Ties in Academia: A Friend is a Treasure
Replication Data for: "Social Ties in Academia: A Friend is a Treasure"
No full textReplication Data for: "Social Ties in Academia: A Friend is a Treasure
Replication Data for: "Social Ties in Academia: A Friend is a Treasure"
No full textReplication Data for: "Social Ties in Academia: A Friend is a Treasure
Social Ties in Academia: a Friend is a Treasure
No full textThis paper employs a unique dataset on articles, authors and editors of the top general interest journals in economics to investigate the role of social connections in the publication process. Ties between editors and authors are identified based on their academic histories. About 43% of the articles published in these journals are authored by scholars connected to one editor at the time of the publication. PhD students and faculty colleagues of an editor also improve their publication outcomes when this editor is in charge of a journal
The indirect environmental effects of taxing waste
No full textThis paper investigates the indirect effects of environmental policies that target waste production, i.e., pay-as-you-throw (PAYT) schemes. Using a newly constructed longitudinal dataset of Italian municipalities and a stacked difference-in-differences design, we find that PAYT adoption generates positive effects on pro-environmental behaviors not directly targeted by the policy (indirect effects), in addition to reducing unsorted waste production (direct effect). Survey evidence shows that PAYT increases the salience of environmental issues among treated residents, which in turn strengthens their pro-environmental attitudes. These findings suggest that narrowly targeted environmental policies can lead to broader behavioral changes by fostering environmental awareness
Dancing with the Populist. New Parties, Electoral Rules and Italian Municipal Elections
Full text linkThis paper develops a theoretical framework that makes predictions on (a) the conditions under which a populist party decides to run and the policy position it takes and (b) voters’ response under different electoral systems. We test these predictions using data on Italian municipal elections over the 2009-2019 period and focusing on the electoral outcomes of the Five Star Movement. The empirical analysis shows: (i) populists are more likely to run under a Dual Ballot (DB) system and in municipalities where there is a large share of dissatisfied voters; (ii) when the populist runs, turnout increases under both Single and Dual Ballot systems; (iii) in a DB system, the populist candidate who ranked second in the first round has a higher probability of winning than the candidate of traditional party who ranked second by the same margin, as a result of increased turnout in the second round. We finally provide evidence that the low education and the young age of populist candidates are likely to deteriorate the efficiency of the local administration
Rule Breaking, Honesty, and Migration
Full text linkUsing Census data we study false birth date registrations in Italy, a phenomenon well known to demographers, in a setting that allows us to separate honesty from cheating bene ts and deterrence. By comparing migrants and remainers within locality-biennium cells we then illustrate the tendency of Italians to sort themselves across geographic areas according to their honesty. Overtime, this tendency has modi ed the average honesty in each locality, with relevant consequences for the distribution across geographic areas of outcomes like human capital, productivity, earnings growth and the quality of local politicians and government
Empirical Essays on the Economic Analysis of Social Connections
Full text linkSocial connections represent an important determinant of economic agents’ behaviour.
The three chapters of this thesis empirically analyse the effect of different
types of networks on several economic outcomes.
The first chapter analyses the role played by co-worker networks on immigrants’
employment outcomes. It investigates how immigrants’ job search outcomes are
affected by the labour market outcomes of co-workers from the same country of
origin. Using matched employer-employee micro data from Italy and an instrumental
variables approach, I show that an increase in the employment prospects of
socially connected workers improves immigrants’ job search outcomes. The paper
also sheds light on the different mechanisms generating the social effect and it
highlights the role of migrant networks in explaining immigrant segregation.
Chapter 2 employs a unique dataset on articles, authors and editors of the top four
economics journals over the period 2000-2006 to investigate the role of social ties
in the publication process. Connections between editors and authors are identified
based on their academic histories. Regression results show that the existence
of a social tie with an editor positively affects publication outcomes of connected
scholars. The analysis of citations shows that connected articles receive on average
a higher number of citations than non-connected ones.
The final chapter focuses on the impact of female managers on female workers’ employment
outcomes. Exploiting changes in the share of female managers induced
by firms’ takeovers, I find no statistically significant effect of an increase in the
presence of female managers on employment outcomes of female workers. However
there is an interesting negative effect on wage inequality within the acquiring firm,
which may matter for both equity and efficiency reasons.Support from the Fondazione Rodolfo DeBenedetti and the Royal Economic Society
is very gratefully acknowledged
Minority Salience and Political Extremism
Full text linkWe investigate how the salience of an ethnic minority affects the majority group's voting behavior. We use the increased salience of Muslim communities during Ramadan as a natural experiment. Exploiting exogenous variation in the distance of election dates to Ramadan over the 1980-2013 period in Germany, our findings reveal an increased polarization. Vote shares for both right- and left-wing extremist parties increase in municipalities with mosques when an election takes place shortly after Ramadan. We use survey data to provide evidence on mechanisms: Ramadan increases respondents' perceived share of the foreign-born population and emphasizes cultural dissimilarities, ultimately worsening attitudes towards Muslims
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