11 Nov 2020 Why American Deterrence May Not Work In a world with many well armed and unpredictable countries, tough talk from the US is riskier than ever
11 Nov 2020 When a Superpower Barks, Dictators Bite Threatening to topple autocrats too often backfires, according to research by Livio Di Lonardo. Regimes react by investing more in security and crushing oppositions ideologically close to the foreign power. Ideologically distant oppositions, on the contrary, are spared
03 Nov 2020 A Call for Evidence in the Debate Over School Autonomy Bocconi students on the economics seminars organized by IGIER. In the second article of a series, Sahana Subramanyam reports on the work of Joshua Angrist, MIT, and Stephen Machin, LSE
18 Dec 2020 Young, Temporary, and Low Skill Workers Worst Hit by the Pandemic Alessandra Casarico, in an analysis of the short term effect of COVID on the Italian labor market, confirms that the most affected are those that were already suffering the consequences of the previous recession. With a glimpse of hope for women
09 Nov 2020 The Immigrant Factor for Public Health: Let the Data Speak A study by Carlo Devillanova underlines the importance of monitoring health issues of immigrants to avoid the risks of leaving them outside the healthcare system during the pandemic
29 Oct 2020 Understanding the Consequences of the COVID19 Lockdown for Older People A large scale survey of elderly folks will explore the real effects of the lockdown in order to prepare for similar events in the future