Economics

An analysis conducted by Selim Gulesci with Erik Meyersson highlights that an increase in female schooling in Turkey translates into a reduction in indicators of religious expression and in more decision rights in marriage and family planning, but it's not a magic bullet towards emancipation

A new research paper by Favero, Alesina, Giavazzi, Barbiero, and Paradisi shows that deficit reduction policies based on spending cuts are much less costly, in terms of output losses, than those based on tax increases.

Food scarcity and income distribution are not enough to explain the levels of undernourishment in developing countries, according to the studies of the Fondazione Invernizzi Chair, to be presented in a book and in a conference

Nicola Gennaioli, Tommaso Nannicini and Delia Baldassarri have been awarded a cumulative funding of about 3 million euro

An Italian incumbent mayor accepted to send different messages to different voters in order to check their effectiveness. The results have been analyzed by Tommaso Nannicini and two coauthors in a study forthcoming in American Economic Review

EARIE 2014 starts on Friday, 29 August. With its 400 participants it is the first international conference hosted at Bocconi after the summer break