Programma del corso 2009-10

 

LETTURE CONSIGLIATE:

 

1) Variabili strumentali

 

Barro e Sala-i-Martin, capp. 11 e 12

 

Stock e Watson, cap. 12

 

Acemoglu, Johnson e Robinson, The Colonial Origins of Comparative Development: An Empirical Investigation, American Economic Review, 2001

 

Bertocchi e Canova, Did Colonization Matter for Growth? An Empirical Exploration into the Historical Causes of Africa's Underdevelopment, European Economic Review,  2002

 

Bertocchi e Strozzi, International Migration and the Role of Institutions, Public Choice, 2008

 

Murat, Pistoresi e Rinaldi, Migrant Networks and Italian Foreign Direct Investment: A Cliometric Perspective, Materiali di discussione del Dipartimento di Economia Politica, n. 579, 2008

 

2) Effetti fissi

 

Acemoglu, Johnson, Robinson e Yared, Income and Democracy, American Economic Review, 2008

 

3) Regressioni logit e probit

 

Fernandez e Fogli, Culture: An Empirical Investigation of Beliefs, Work, and Fertility, American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics 2009

 

Bertocchi, Brunetti e Torricelli, Portfolio Choices, Gender and Marital Status, Rivista di Politica Economica, 2009

 

Bertocchi e Strozzi, The Evolution of Citizenship: Economic and Institutional Determinants, Journal of Law and Economics, 2010

 

4) Interazioni

 

Edlund e Pande, Why Have Women Become Left-Wing? The Political Gender Gap and the Decline in Marriage, Quarterly Journal of Economics 2002

 

Bertocchi, The Enfranchisement of Women and the Welfare State, CEPR Discussion Paper No. 6396, revisione 2009

 

Murat e Pistoresi, Emigrant and Immigrant Networks in FDI, Applied Economic Letters, 2008