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
02 Nov 2020 How Twitter Takes Votes away from Trump but not from Republicans New research by Carlo Schwarz finds that, in the 2016 US presidential election, Twitter made independent voters less likely to vote for Donald Trump but did not affect other elections
23 Oct 2020 Bocconi Always in Search of Talent on the Academic Job Market Seven positions are currently open at the Departments of Economics, Finance, and Accounting and more will follow
21 Oct 2020 How Visual Salience Can Help Predict Economic Decisions Bocconi students report on seminars organized by the IGIER research center. In the first instalment of the series, Massimiliano Pozzi on the work of Colin Camerer, Caltech
09 Oct 2020 La Ferrara's Project Against Infibulation Financed by USAID The American development agency granted funding to a simple, low cost idea to reduce the rates of female genital mutilation in Africa
14 Oct 2020 Do We Really Care About Climate Change? A paper coauthored by Adam Nowakowski, a MSc student, finds that concern among European citizens is very low and that this lack of awareness could undermine the effectiveness of any contrast mechanism. Policy makers should therefore focus on altering individual feelings prior to designing new schemes