102,164 research outputs found
Artefice del bello, mantenitore del vero : le realizzazioni maggiori di Vincenzo Vela per Giovanni e Carlo d'Adda
No full textStoria e analisi di tre sculture realizzate da Vincenzo Vela (Ligornetto, 1820-1891) per la famiglia d'Adda, tra il 1850 e il 1854: La contessa d’Adda negli estremi momenti di vita, l'Addolorata, Ritratto di Leopoldina d'Adda col cane
"Elegantissimum sacellum" : l'architettura di Giuseppe Balzaretto e la decorazione di Lorenzo Vela della cappella D'Adda di Arcore
No full textCatalogo per la mostra "I fratelli Vela e la committenza d'Adda", Arcore, Scuderie di Villa Borromeo d'Adda, 28 settembre-9 novembre 2014
Motivation crowding in environmental protection: Evidence from an artefactual field experiment
No full textThis paper examines how motivation, crowding and social image affect environmental conservation decisions. An artefactual field experiment conducted in Bolivia is used to reproduce the trade-off between individual and social benefits in natural resource use and test the effect of non-monetary and non-regulatory incentives on pro-social behavior for environmental conservation. The results show the presence of a social norm prescribing positive contribution towards environmental protection, and that external incentives have heterogeneous effects on pro-social behavior depending on how they influence reputation and self-image. The experimental results differ from those of analogous experiments conducted in the laboratory, and are instead consistent with those from field experiments on common-pool resource management. This fact suggests caution in generalizing conclusions, reached in the laboratory, to different settings and populations. © 2011 Elsevier B.V
Relative social status and conformism: Experimental evidence on local public good contributions
No full textThrough an artefactual field experiment conducted in Colombia, where participants make repeated contributions to a local natural conservation project, I test a novel way to identify high status individuals within a community, and show that status, so defined, is correlated with public good giving. Both absolute and relative status have a statistically significant and economically relevant influence on behavior. In particular, the same individual, when matched with a lower status partner, donates more and conforms less to the partner's action. The results indicate that contributions to local public goods can be enhanced by interventions that make relative status more salient
Historical legacy and policy effectiveness: The long-term influence of preunification borders in Italy
No full textThis paper investigates the interplay between cultural traditions and policy effectiveness. It explores the differential impact of a large development program (Cassa per il Mezzogiorno), implemented for four decades, starting in the 1950s, to stimulate convergence between Italy's south and the more developed north, on municipalities with different histories. Namely, we consider a sample of municipalities located on either side of the historical border of the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies, whose legacy is considered, from Putnam onwards, to be a prime-facie cause of Southern Italy's underdevelopment. Having been part of the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies is associated with a negative impact of development policies, but only when the allocation of development funds through the Cassa per il Mezzogiorno suffered from low quality of governance and was driven by political considerations rather than by efficiency ones
Determinants of conservation among the rural poor: A charitable contribution experiment
No full textThis paper examines how conservation decisions are affected by environmental degradation. Donations to an environmental NGO and participation in actual conservation activities capture individual preferences for environmental conservation. Environmental degradation is measured both through survey-based data on experiences of deforestation and environmental shocks, and through indices of deforestation constructed with GIS data. The results show that being exposed to environmental degradation is correlated both with higher donations and conservation behavior. The relationship between conservation choices and individual social preferences is also explored. Experimental measures of individual altruism and inequality aversion, and survey measures of trust, time preferences and civic engagement are correlated with donations and real world conservation decisions respectively. These findings show the role of environmental awareness in fostering environmental conservation even in very poor settings. They also highlight the potential of experiments, which closely mirror real world decisions, to generate conclusions generalizable to individual behavior outside the laboratory. © 2014
E-campaigning on Twitter: The effectiveness of distributive promises and negative campaign in the 2013 Italian election
No full textRecent studies investigated the effect of e-campaigning on the electoral performance. However, little attention has been paid to the content of e-campaigning. Given that political parties broadcast minute-by-minute the campaign messages on social media, this comprehensive and unmediated information can be useful to evaluate the impact of different electoral strategies. Accordingly, this article examines the electoral campaign for the 2013 Italian general election to assess the effectiveness of positive and negative campaigning messages, measured through content analysis of information published on the official Twitter accounts of Italian parties. We evaluate their impact on the share of unsolicited voting intentions expressed on Twitter, measured through an innovative technique of sentiment analysis. Our results show that negative campaign has positive effects and its impact is stronger when the attacker is meanwhile under attack. Conversely, we only find a circumstantial effect of positive campaign related to clientelistic and distributive appeals
Dalla crisi finanziaria alla crisi reale
No full textIinterventi di P. Ciocca, C. D’Adda, G. Gandolfo, A. Montesano, A. Quadrio Curzio e Roncaglia
Il contratto di commissione
No full textIl lavoro si propone di analizzare in chiave critica i recenti sviluppi interpretativi in tema di contratto di commission
Can social information programs be more effective? The role of environmental identity for energy conservation
No full textSocial information programs are widely used to nudge behavioural change. Their effectiveness strongly depends on household and individual traits. The existing evidence in economics and psychology points to the role of environmental values and identity in determining pro-environmental behavior and the impact of social information. In a large field experiment on household energy conservation, we combine electricity metering and survey data to test whether the impact of a social information program can be strengthened by leveraging environmental values and identity. We experimentally augment social information messages with an environmental self-identity prime. The self-identity prime does not strengthen the effectiveness of a social information program on average. Nonetheless, we find suggestive evidence that priming environmental self-identity can be effective if targeted to specific sub-groups
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