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The legacy of literacy. evidence from italian regions
Full text linkItaly was unified in 1861. As part of the process of nation-building, a mandatory free-of-charge primary school system was established. Whereas the new school system greatly contributed to the modernization of the country, its initial design did not considerably reduce regional disparities in human capital, with Southern regions lagging behind. The paper studies the effects of the heterogeneous territorial diffusion of literacy during the post-unification period (1871–1911) on economic outcomes of Italian provinces 100 years later. We exploit the exogenous variations in the territorial spread in literacy rates arising from the gradual building and expansion of the railway network across provinces. We find evidence that provinces with a higher territorial diffusion of literacy in the post-unification period today have higher income per capita, lower unemployment and greater educational attainment
Haartsen T., Groote P., P.P. Huigen P. (dir.), Claiming Rural Identifies,
No full textLimouzin Pierre. Haartsen T., Groote P., P.P. Huigen P. (dir.), Claiming Rural Identifies,. In: Annales de Géographie, t. 110, n°618, 2001. p. 209
Haartsen T., Groote P., P.P. Huigen P. (dir.), Claiming Rural Identifies,
No full textLimouzin Pierre. Haartsen T., Groote P., P.P. Huigen P. (dir.), Claiming Rural Identifies,. In: Annales de Géographie, t. 110, n°618, 2001. p. 209
P. de Groote, P. Matiiysen, P. Orianne, Th. Vogelaar, Industrie nucléaire et pouvoirs publics
No full textP. de Groote, P. Matiiysen, P. Orianne, Th. Vogelaar, Industrie nucléaire et pouvoirs publics. In: Revue internationale de droit comparé. Vol. 18 N°3, Juillet-septembre 1966. pp. 760-761
Railway Endowment in Italy’s Provinces, 1839-1913
Full text linkThis paper presents new annual estimates of railway extension in Italian provinces at 1913 borders for the period 1839-1913. The main operator of the Italian railway network (Ferrovie dello Stato) published in 1911 a unique set of homogeneous historical five year maps illustrating the routes of existing railway lines during 1861-1909. These eleven maps were all scanned and georeferenced in an ArcGIS-project. The resulting database was integrated with the information available in historical sources. As a second step, to allocate the various sections of railway lines to Italian provinces, we used a historical digital map (in ArcGIS shapefile format) of Italian provinces freely available on the SISTAT section of the ISTAT (Italian National Institute of Statistics) website. The new estimates were systematically checked against those reported at various geographical scale in the historical sources and in the more recent literature
P. de Groote, P. Matiiysen, P. Orianne, Th. Vogelaar, Industrie nucléaire et pouvoirs publics
No full textP. de Groote, P. Matiiysen, P. Orianne, Th. Vogelaar, Industrie nucléaire et pouvoirs publics. In: Revue internationale de droit comparé. Vol. 18 N°3, Juillet-septembre 1966. pp. 760-761
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
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