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Title:Rethinking the crime reducing effect of education : the role of social capital and organized crime Author(s):BRILLI, Ylenia EUI affiliated

; TONELLO, MarcoDate:2014Type:Working PaperSeries/Number:EUI MWP; 2014/19Abstract:This paper estimates the causal effect of education on adolescent crime by exploiting a compulsory education reform implemented in 1999 in Italy. To identify the causal relation we use the reform as an instrument for ...

Title:Accounting for the Changing Role of Family Income in Determining College Entry Author(s):WINTER, ChristophDate:2007Type:Working PaperSeries/Number:EUI ECO; 2007/49Abstract:Assessing the importance of borrowing constraints for college entry is key for education policy analysis in the U.S. economy. I present a computable dynamic general equilibrium model with overlapping generations and ...

Title:‘The Child is Father of the Man:’ Implications for the Demographic Transition Author(s):DE LA CROIX, David; LICANDRO, OmarDate:2007Citation: Revised Version Type:Working PaperSeries/Number:EUI ECO; 2007/05Abstract:We propose a new theory of the demographic transition based on the evidence that body development during childhood is an important factor for life expectancy. The key and novel mechanism of the model is that parents face ...

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