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Una introduzione all'organizzazione industriale dei sistemi di welfare
No full textThe paper illustrates the most relevant theoretical contributions in the field of industrial organization of welfare service
L'efficienza del sistema scolastico. Il ruolo della struttura proprietaria nella scuola media inferiore
No full textThe paper describes the Italian school sector and analyses the efficiency of junior high schools using econometric technique
L'efficienza del sistema sanitario. Il ruolo della struttura proprietaria negli ospedali
No full textThe paper describes the Italian hospital industry and makes and econometric analisis of its efficienc
Che cosa blocca l’attuazione della riforma della sanità territoriale (e non solo)? Qualche spunto di riflessione
No full textL’obiettivo delle riflessioni è quello di chiarire quali sono i potenziali ostacoli per l’attuazione della riforma della sanità territoriale disegnata dal DM 77/2022
Cambiare verso? Spunti di riflessione su imposte, spesa e futuro del Welfare
No full textLa politica economica dei governi che si sono succeduti negli ultimi anni in Italia si è orientata a un taglio delle imposte accompagnato da politiche di contenimento della spesa come ricetta per far ripartire la crescita economica. La direzione di marcia – sostenuta anche da proposte radicali di riforma portate avanti da think-tank privati – sembra essere dunque quella verso un modello di welfare state con meno Stato e un po’ più mercato. L’articolo si sofferma sulle opzioni per l’organizzazione delle politiche sociali, su cosa stiano facendo gli altri paesi, su come conciliare la visione di un welfare «assicurativo» con quella di un welfare «redistributivo», nonché sui vincoli aggiuntivi alla riforma dovuta di un modello corporativo datato per il nostro paese
Funding and School Accountability: The Importance of Private and Decentralised Public Funding for Pupil Attainment
No full textWe discuss the issue of how schools should be financed, concentrating on the role of private funding and public funding via sub-national governments as accountability mechanisms in the provision of educational services. The historical evolution of school regulation in Italy and Spain has created differences in the percentage of pupils who attend private schools, the percentage of private school funding coming from public and private sources, and the percentage of public school funding that comes from central or local government sources. We take advantage of these institutional diversities rooted in history to estimate the disciplining role of these different sources of funding in the context of an educational production function using PISA data. Our results provide support to both accountability mechanisms, and point to the presence of an important interplay between them
Electoral Rules and Municipal Finances: Evidence From Two Reforms in Italy
Full text linkLocal finance offers an important testing ground for
analyses of fiscal policy and political economics. The
sheer number of local communities and the fact that
many institutional features can be taken as common
across localities inside a single country make the results
of empirical analysis of local governments more convincing
than either single case studies or inter-country
comparisons (Besley and Case 2003). Moreover, local
governments are often affected by reforms that can be
taken as exogenous with respect to the local community.
Hence, one can hope to use these episodes to cast light
on important and unresolved issues in economics. Italy
is a good case in point. At the beginning of the 1990s,
local finance in Italy was affected by two reforms that
deeply changed both the politics and the funding of local
governments
Impatience and crime. Evidence from the NLSY97
No full textWe empirically test the relationship between crime and impatience at the individual level, exploiting data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1997 (NLSY97). Besides providing information on violent, property, and drug crimes, NLSY97 allows us to observe different behaviors, sharing impatience as a common latent factor. We use factor analysis to extract this common factor as a measure of impatience. Estimates from a Logit model suggest a positive association between impatience and crime. This relationship differs across violent, property, and drug crimes, but we do not find significant heterogeneities when comparing individuals according to gender, parental education, and ethnic groups. The main result is robust to different factor analysis specifications and controls for risk preferences. Our findings support policies aimed at influencing individual time preferences as an indirect way to combat crime
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