Preferences and Normal Goods: An Easy-to-Check Necessary and Sufficient Condition [PDF]
We provide a necessary and sufficient condition for goods to be normal when utility functions are differentiable and strongly quasi-concave. Our condition is equivalent to the condition proposed by Alarie et al. (1990), but it is easier to check: it only
Ennio Bilancini, Leonardo Boncinelli
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The Interaction between Parents and Children as a Relevant Dimension of Child Well Being. The Case of Italy [PDF]
This paper aims at measuring the functionings of social interaction, a relevant dimension in the description and conceptualisation of child well being by using the capability approach.
Anna Maccagnan +4 more
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Partially composite two-Higgs doublet model
, 2005 In the extra dimensional scenarios with gauge fields in the bulk, the Kaluza-Klein (KK) gauge bosons can induce Nambu-Jona-Lasinio (NJL) type attractive four-fermion interactions, which can break electroweak symmetry dynamically with accompanying ...
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The Enfranchisement of Women and the Welfare State [PDF]
We offer a rationale for the decision to extend the franchise to women within a politico-economic model where men are richer than women, women display a higher preference for public goods, and women’s disenfranchisement carries a societal cost.
Graziella Bertocchi
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Growth, History, or Institutions? What Explains State Fragility in Sub-Saharan Africa [PDF]
We explore the determinants of state fragility in sub-Saharan Africa. Controlling for a wide range of economic, demographic, geographic and istitutional regressors, we find that institutions, and in particular the civil liberties index and the number of ...
Andrea Guerzoni, Graziella Bertocchi
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Growth, Colonization, and Institutional Development. In and Out of Africa [PDF]
This essay investigates the determinants of the growth performance of Africa. I start by illustrating a broader research agenda which accounts not only for basic economic and demographic factors, but also for the role of history and institutional ...
Graziella Bertocchi
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RECENT PUBLICATIONS/PUBLICATIONS RECENTES [PDF]
Canadian Water Resources Journal, 1977 +5 more sources
Intellectual Property Rights and South-North Formation of Global Innovation Networks [PDF]
With the rise of the knowledge economy; delivering sound innovation policies requires a thorough understanding of how knowledge is produced and diffused.
Alireza Naghavi +2 more
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The Evolution of the Racial Gap in Education and the Legacy of Slavery [PDF]
We study the evolution of racial educational inequality across US states from 1940 to 2000. We show that throughout this period, despite evidence of convergence, the racial gap in attainment between blacks and whites has been persistently determined by ...
Arcangelo Dimico, Graziella Bertocchi
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The Rise of A District Lead Firm: The Case of Wam (1968-2003) [PDF]
In recent years a major evolution in several industrial districts in Italy has been the emergence of new hierarchical structures that led to the rise of lead firms.
Alberto Rinaldi
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