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"Educating Children to Save: an Experimental Approach to Financial Education of Pupils in Primary Schools", Dipartimento di Economia e Statistica "Cognetti de Martiis" WP 2/2015
No full textFinancial education is today a primary issue. We experimentally test whether a programme (“treatment”) of financial education on savings, targeted to children aged 8 and 9, is effective and to what extent. We measure the interest rate required by the children before and after the treatment to accept to postpone a reward, compute its variation and compare this with that of a control group. We find that children are sensitive to the programme, and that this decreases the children’s impatience. We also find some gender differences that cast some doubts about the gender neutrality of programmes of financial education
An experimental inquiry into the nature of relational goods, POLIS Working Papers - n. 188
No full textPOLIS Working Papers - n. 18
Household mobility in food purchasing during COVID-19 lockdown: evidence from Torino, Italy
No full textDuring the first wave of COVID-19, lockdown restrictions limited people's movements mainly to food purchasing. Using survey data collected in Torino, Italy, from university students, this study analyses the lockdown's impact on the transportation means used for purchasing food compared to the pre-lockdown period. Food store busi nesses were not limited by the restrictions and people had to purchase food; however, national and local rules limited citizens' movements, potentially leading to a different choices of transportation means than before the pandemic. The results show that both the lockdown and, perhaps, the fear of contagion, moved the preferences of people from public and shared means to foot and private vehicles. These findings can help in rethinking how transportation is organised in an urban environment, such as that in Torino. Ensuring the safety of public and shared transportation may help sustain mobility during health emergencies
Is Cooperation Instinctive? Evidence from the Response Times in a Public Goods Game, POLIS Working Papers - n. 190
No full textPOLIS Working Papers - n. 19
Smoking inequality across genders and socio-economic positions. Evidence from Italian data
No full textThere has been a dearth of literature on smoking inequalities, in spite of its contribution to health inequalities. We exploit Italian individual-level data from repeated cross-sections of the annual household survey, “Aspects of Daily Life,” that was part of the Multipurpose Survey carried out by the Italian National Statistical Office (ISTAT) for the period 1999–2012 to identify the main socio-demographic characteristics that determine smoking inequalities. We use the Concentration Index to identify in which groups smoking is relatively more prevalent. We find that, among men, pro-rich inequality is driven by members of the lower socio-economic positions, while we observe the opposite for women. We encourage policymakers to address the issue of smoking inequalities, which the current policies have largely disregarded
Gender Differences in Financial Education: Evidence from Primary School
No full textToday, financial and economic education is a primary issue in academia
and among policy makers, and there is great interest towards programmes that are
able to boost it. In this paper, we test whether a programme (“treatment”) of financial
education on savings, targeted to children aged 8 and 9 is effective and to what extent.
We measure the interest rate required by the children before and after the treatment to
accept postponing a reward, computing its variation and comparing this with that of a
control group. We find evidence that the overall initiative is helpful in decreasing the
level of impatience of children and the number of inconsistent choices of boys. Our
findings invite to reflect on the gender neutrality of programmes of financial education
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