This paper uses data from the 1993 Survey of Household Income and Wealth conducted by
the Bank of Italy in order to estimate a reduced form purist model of female marital fertility …

We aim to provide an explanation for the combination of the relatively low female
participation rates and lowest‐low fertility levels in I taly. Starting from the assumption that …

This paper carries out an investigation into the socio-economic determinants of childbearing
decisions made by couples in Italy. The analysis accounts for the characteristics of both …

The setting of new taxes is a notably visible act that has potential political costs. This paper
explores the setting of new environmental taxes across the 308 Flemish municipalities over …

This study examines whether corporate social responsibility (CSR) mitigates or exacerbates
managerial short-termism. Using earnings management (EM) as a proxy for managerial …

A methodology is developed for obtaining consistent moment estimators of the parameters
in probit models that include both exogenous and endogenous variables. The approach is …

Abstract Dagenais in (Econ Lett 63: 19–21, 1999) and Lucchetti in (Econ Lett 75: 179–185,
2002) have demonstrated that the naive GMM estimator of Grogger in (Econ Lett 33: 329 …

We investigate how community social capital, captured by the strength of cooperative norms
and social networks within a geographical community, affects the internal structure of …

Political economy models predict that the rich oppose redistribution, and hence vote for
conservative parties. Although this seems to fit the data well, I show that this is not true when …

Italy has very low female labour force participation (LFP hereafter) and fertility rates. Both
phenomena have recently drawn the attention of many researchers and policy makers since …