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Napoleonic Administrative Reforms and Development in the Italian Mezzogiorno [PDF]
SSRN Electronic JournalWe study how changes in a country’s administrative hierarchy affect development at the city level. We exploit the 1806 Napoleonic administrative reform implemented in the Kingdom of Naples as a historical experiment to assess whether district capitals endowed with supra-municipal administrative functions gained an urban development premium compared ...
Cainelli, Giulio +2 more
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Integrated Genomic and Epidemiological Surveillance to Monitor SARS-CoV-2 Variants in Italy: Insights From the JN.1 Case Study (2023-2024). [PDF]
J Med VirolABSTRACT The epidemiology of SARS‐CoV‐2 is marked by the continuous emergence of new lineages. Early detection and assessment of their transmissibility can be challenging for surveillance systems that rely solely on case time series data. Genomic surveillance, focusing on identifying and characterizing circulating variants, can provide early insights ...
Manica M +13 more
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Luigi Spaventa ministro del Bilancio (Luigi Spaventa Minister of the Budget)
Moneta e Credito, 2013 L'autrice analizza l'eredità di Luigi Spaventa in qualità di Ministro del Bilancio italiano. L'autrice attinge a reminiscenze personali presso il Ministero del Tesoro e si concentra in particolare sul dualismo nello sviluppo economico dell'Italia e sull'
Maria Teresa Salvemini
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Rivista di Storia dell'Educazione, 2021 The birth of Montessori’s Case dei Bambini (“Children’s Houses”) and the adoption of her innovative teaching method constitute an interesting chapter in the renewal of educational practices in Italy in the early years of the 20th century.
Brunella Serpe
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Cambio, 2016 This article analyses the reasons for the persisting economic and social backwardness of the Italian Mezzogiorno. The South of Italy, a large and densely populated region, has lagged behind the rest of the country over the last 60 years, despite ...
Carlo Trigilia
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In a Small Moment: Class Size and Moral Hazard in the Italian Mezzogiorno [PDF]
American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2017 Instrumental variables (IV ) estimates show strong class-size effects in Southern Italy. But Italy's Mezzogiorno is distinguished by manipulation of standardized test scores as well as by economic disadvantage. IV estimates suggest small classes increase manipulation. We argue that score manipulation is a consequence of teacher shirking.
Angrist J, Battistin E, Vuri D.
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European financial integration: some lessons from Italy
PSL Quarterly Review, 2013 This paper proposes an oligopolistic model with price discrimination as consistent with the known traditional qualities of the Italian banking system.
D. HESTER, F. SDOGATI
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Scientific Reports, 2022 This study aimed to determine the lipidome of water buffalo milk with intramammary infection (IMI) by non-aureus staphylococci (NAS), also defined as coagulase-negative staphylococci, using an untargeted lipidomic approach.
Fabrizio Ceciliani +14 more
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Could Southern Italians Cooperate? Banche Popolari in the Mezzogiorno [PDF]
The Journal of Economic History, 2000 Recent work by Robert Putnam has revived a contentious debate about the role of culture in Italian regional disparities. Southern Italy is argued to have been locked in an impoverishing, no-trust equilibrium. This article explores an apparent exception to Putnam's historical evidence: the South's late-nineteenth-century cooperative banks (banche ...
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Le collusioni con la mafia nell’Italia odierna
Quaderni di Sociologia, 2014 Collusion between mafia organizations and white-collars workers in Italy represents a crucial issue in a deeper understanding of indigenous organized crime. Regarding this, the book edited by Rocco Sciarrone, Alleanze nell’ombra. Mafie ed economie locali
Stefano Becucci
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