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School Attendance, Child Labour and Gender Bias in Morocco
No full textUsing cross-sectional data and employing probit models, the paper investigates child school
attendance and labour in Morocco. Results indicate that education is a luxury good which can be
purchased more easily by the non-poor. Moreover, a child is more likely to be in school if he/she is
residing in an urban area and is the son/daughter of the head of the household. However, the Body
Mass Index (BMI) - used to account for the impact of proper nutrition status on attendance probability -
deters school attendance. More detailed empirical evidence is obtained by estimating the same type of
models on gender based subsamples. Poverty status, household size and the provincial average of time
taken to travel to school in minutes lessen the probability of female school attendance. If a female child
lives in a household headed by a female, the pupil should have higher likelihood of school attendance.
Besides being a quite common result, this occurrence can be employed to devise a policy initiative of
disbursing to the female head a monetary or in-kind transfer devoted to pupils education which can be
most cost-effective in closing the gender gap as required by the second Millennium Development Goal
(MDG). The probability of a male going to school is limited by the significant role of some regional
location dummies and living with an aged household head. The variables which are significant in both
single-genders models generate higher probabilistic effects for females compared to males.
As expected, the child labour models estimate coefficients which are most of the time opposite in sign
to the ones in the educational. The variable which is consistently associated with a negative influence
on the dependent variable is the age of the household head. The significance of the yearly per capita
expenditure in the child labour investigations might be driven by some endogeneity or the inclusion of
asset variables. Besides the econometric problem, it undermines the confidence attached to the
implementation of a cash/in-kind transfers devoted to curb child labour and promote school attendance.
Industry localization effects and complementarity in within-household labour choices are present. The
investigation carried out on gender-specific samples finds a inverted U shaped female trajectory in age
probably due to early pregnancy. Moreover, poverty condition improves males probability of working
while it diminishes female s school participation
THREE ESSAYS ON DEVELOPMENT ECONOMICS
No full textLa presente tesi raggruppa tre contributi che analizzano la partecipazione dei minori ad attività lavorative e scolastiche in Marocco, le variabili correlate con il benessere individuale e le differenze nei livelli salariali in Albania. I tre saggi tentano di fornire analisi empiriche basate sulla letteratura più recente e di contribuire allo sviluppo della metodologia quantitativa più comunemente utilizzata.The present thesis is a collection of three contributions which investigate children’s schooling and labour participation in Morocco, the correlates of subjective well being and the differences in wage levels in Albania. The papers try to carry out empirical analyses of these issues based on the most recent developments in the relevant literature and to contribute to the empirical methodology commonly used
L’attitudine dei consumatori per gli alimenti funzionali
No full textL’attitudine dei consumatori per gli alimenti funzionali misurata attraverso un discrete choice mode
Agglomerazione ed imprenditorialità in Italia ed in Emilia Romagna: evidenze empiriche nelle industrie manifatturiere
Full text linkEntrepreneurship is among the most important elements for the evaluation of the local territorial development and it is certainly a meaningful indicator to understand interregional differences in economic development. Traditional explanations of entrepreneurship rely on evaluating the role of characteristics of the macro environment (profitability, labor market) as well as of the micro environment (composition of local industries). In this work an attempt is made to study this second element, deriving from the literature three hypothesis concerning the linkage between agglomeration economies and local entrepreneurship. The three hypothesis are tested applying an empirical model of entrepreneurial choice and using provincial and industrial data, for the Emilia Romagna region and for Italy. The aim is to characterize the industrial environment of Emilia Romagna region, to explain the superior performance of this region, compared to the others of Italy. Results indicate that, differently from the remainder of Italy, provinces in Emilia Romagna benefit from a greater industrial diversification, which definitively stimulates new firms formation
Le indicazioni geografiche e il Partenariato Transatlantico per il commercio e gli investimenti (Ttip): prospettive UE e Usa a confronto
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La domanda di investimenti delle aziende agricole europee
No full textThe paper develops a comparative analysis, among selected European Union Member States, of the investment demand, for farm buildings and machinery and equipment, of a sample of specialised arable crop farms as determined – inter alia – by different types and levels of Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) support. The empirical analysis investigates the role of long and short run determinants of investment levels as well as accounts for the presence of irregularities in the cost adjustment function due to the existence of threshold-type behaviours. Throughout the estimated models a consistent and significant long-run dynamic adjustment towards lower levels of the farms’ capital stocks is detected. The effect of CAP support on both types of investments is positive, although seldom significant
La disponibilità dei consumatori a pagare per la salubrità del cibo: il caso delle micotossine nel latte
No full textData l’importanza che i consumatori attribuiscono alla salubrità alimentare, le aziende agro-alimentari private potrebbero adottare pratiche volontarie che mirino a garantire e preservare questo attributo. In questo contesto, una migliore comprensione della percezione e del valore del rischio sperimentato dai consumatori potrebbe aiutare sia le aziende private che le istituzioni pubbliche ad intraprendere iniziative orientate al miglioramento della salubrità del cibo. Questo articolo sintetizza i risultati di un esperimento atto a determinare la percezione e la valutazione economica, da parte dei consumatori, dei rischi da micotossine nel cibo stimando la disponibilità a pagare di un campione di consumatori italiani per una “ipotetica” bottiglia di latte ottenuto da vacche nutrite anche con mais certificato per il rispetto delle buone pratiche agricole e manifatturiere lungo la filiera
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