Research Question or Area of interest

• Education: schooling and cognitive skills

Method

• Parametric event study design
• Stacked-by-event design

Sources of Data

• Educational reforms in European countries in 1950-2000 from Braga et al. (2013)
• OECD Survey of Adult Skills (“PIAAC”) data

Research Question or Area of interest

• Taxation policies
• Environmental policies

Method

• Diff-in-Diff with variation in treatment timing
• Staggered rollout design
• Stacked-by-event design

Sources of Data

• Waste outcomes: Ispra (Catasto rifiuti)
• Municipality characteristics: Istat
• Municipal water consumption: Istat
• Energy consumption: Arpae
• Car pollution (only for “capoluogo di provincia”): Istat

Research Question or Area of interest

• Gender economics
• Discrimination
• Gender wage gap
• Italian labour market

Method

• AKM fixed effects
• Regression models
• Micro-foundation of empirical models

Sources of Data

• Linked employer-employee data from administrative sources

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Research Question or Area of interest

• Impact of the motorways network on innovation in Italy during the 80s and 90sI

Method

• IV (the «historical route approach»: the ancient Roman road network. Violations of SUTVA (partly) addressed by including motorways network in nearby NUTS-3 areas (weighted by distance and economic links).

Sources of Data

• Patent & citations information from the European
• Patent Office
• Highways data from ISTAT at the NUTS-3 level

Research Question or Area of interest

• Causal effects of individuals’ fear of migrants on propensity to vote for (extreme) right-wing parties as of 2017

Method

• IV using information on location of medioeval ports with trade links with North-Africa as instruments

Sources of Data

• Survey data
• Municipality data from ISTAT
• Historical information derived from other sources

Research Question or Area of interest

• Robot adoption on employment dynamics on Italian local labour markets. Sectoral exposure (industry shares) to that on the exposure of groups of workers (tasks)

Method

• Shift share combined with IV based on non-European adoption and lagged local employment shares

Sources of Data

• Survey data
• Municipality data from ISTAT
• Historical information derived from other sources

Research Question or Area of interest

• Effects of a selective VAT reduction for hospitality services in the UK on hotel room prices

Method

• DiD, using hotel room prices in other large EU countries as control group

Sources of Data

• Scraping from Booking.com

Research Question or Area of interest

• The impact of a comprehensive labour market reform (the 2012 Fornero Reform) on relative propensity to hire skilled and unskilled labour

Method

• Differences in Difference. It exploits the discontinuity the fact that firms above 15 employees were those (mor eintensively) treated

Sources of Data

• Various admin datasets (Visitings programme)
• CERVED data for balance sheet information

Research Question or Area of interest

• The study uses the opening of a high speed rail station near Reggio Emilia (between Milan and Bologna) as a quasi natural experiment to assess the impact of high-speed railways on firms’ sales and productivity

Method

• DiD using firms near the station (0-20 km) as the treatment group, and firms far from the station (30-50) as control group

Sources of Data

• Firm level: Orbit
• ISTAT shape files for transport infrastructure locations

Research Question or Area of interest

• The paper shows that three important airlines set a sequence, based on the seats' order of sale, of non-strictly monotone increasing fares

Method

• DiD

Sources of Data

• Pricing data from EasyJet, Ryanair and  Southwest

Research Question or Area of interest

• The various effect of online teaching during the first wave of the Covid-19 pandemic

Method

• DiD with lecturers fixed effects

Sources of Data

• Admin data for a large Italian university on students’ lecturers evaluation as well as students’ performance

Research Question or Area of interest

• The study seeks to separately identify the labour market effects of both the Medicaid extension and the Tax Premium Subsidies on employment as well as other uses of time

Method

• DiDiD, using income threshold and before-after to identify the effect of the tax break and a (different) income threshold as well as information before-after the States’ (staggered) implementation

Sources of Data

• A pooled cross section of individual level data from the American Time Use Survey (ATUS)

Research Question or Area of interest

• The impact of a large-scale amalgamation of municipalities that took place in Greece in 2010

Method

• DiD, using not merged municipalities as controls
• DiD with matching, by applying DiD on the subset of muncipalities in the common support

Sources of Data

• Panel data for Greek municipalities between 2005-18 using information from the Hellenic Statistical Authority and the Greek Ministry of Interior

Research Question or Area of interest

• The effects of Price Matching Guarantees policies adopted by the US NewEgg online platform on prices

Method

• DiD estimators of intertemporal treatment effects

Sources of Data

• Online platforms’ prices obtained by leveraging on a scraping program

Research Question or Area of interest

• Patent acquisitions/litigations
• Non-Practicing Entities
• Markets for technology, Innovation policies

Method

• Linear Probability Models (LPM)
• Logistic regression
• Sample selection models
• Matching methods
• Firth rare event logit model
• Heckman selection model

Sources of Data

• Clarivate Darts-IP
• Bureau Van Dijk Orbis-IP
• OECD- EPO Patent Quality Dataset
• PATSTAT
• Allied Security Trust (AST)

Research Question or Area of interest

• The causal impact of public procurement on suppliers’ patenting activity

Method

• Combined matching techniques with staggered DiD

Sources of Data

• Italian Space Agency (ASI) data

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Research Question or Area of interest

• How the flow of highly skilled and productive migrants may be affected by immigration legislative changes or other exogenous shocks

Research Question or Area of interest

• The paper assesses whether increasing patients’ freedom of choice influences health system outcomes in terms of non-clinical care indicators

Method

• Synthetic control estimation

Sources of Data

• Spanish microdata for the period 2002–2016

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Research Question or Area of interest

• The impact of IPR protection on health outcomes

Method

• 2-way staggered FE regression model with  dynamics

Sources of Data

• WHO
• WTO
• WB data

Research Question or Area of interest

• The paper exploits a reform aimed at increasing regional tax autonomy in Italy to provide quasi-experimental evidence on the impact of fiscal decentralization on health disparities between- and within-regions

Method

• DiD with a continuous treatment and a concentration index

Sources of Data

• Survey on the Daily Life of Italian Households (“Indagine Multiscopo sulle Famiglie – Aspetti della Vita Quotidiana”)

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Research Question or Area of interest

• Estimation of regional heterogeneity in permanent employment rates in both the short- and medium-run

Method

• Difference-in-discontinuity regression model

Sources of Data

• Administrative data from the Ministry of Labour and Social Policies, CICO (the so-called Comunicazioni Obbligatorie)

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Research Question or Area of interest

• Agglomeration economies and knowledge spillovers as a route to long-term jobs started with training contracts

Research Question or Area of interest

• The impact of child’s education on household (non-durable) consumption, exploiting an exogenous shock generated by a university reform in Italy in the early 2000s

Method

• Instrumental Variable and Control Function methods

Sources of Data

• Survey on Household Income andWealth (SHIW)
• LoSai data from social security registers made available by the Italian Social Security
• Institute (INPS, Istituto Nazionale di Previdenza Sociale)

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Research Question or Area of interest

• The types of contracts that provide the best stepping-stone into a permanent job, by analysing the impact of the 2012 Italy’s apprenticeship reform

Research Question or Area of interest

• The value of auditing the final high school grades on educational and labour market outcomes. In particular, it studies the impact of a 2007 reform in Italy that introduced the presence of external examiners on the board on pupil's schooling

Method

• Two-way fixed effects model

Sources of Data

• Italian Social Security Institute (INPS) data

Research Question or Area of interest

• Local economic growth
• Resilience to negative shocks

Method

• Machine learning control method

Sources of Data

• Quarterly data collected from the Business Register kept by the Union of the Italian Chambers of Commerce

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Research Question or Area of interest

• Investment subsidies
• Spillover effects

Method

• Regression discontinuity design with multiple cut-offs

Sources of Data

• The Italian social security administration (INPS) archive, which covers the universe of Italian employer-employee matches in the private sector

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Research Question or Area of interest

• The long-term reaction of local labor markets (LLMs) to a mass layoff in a manufacturing plant

Method

• Non-parametric generalization of the DiD estimator

Sources of Data

The ASIA dataset on:

• Local units
• Firms

Research Question or Area of interest

• What happens when strongly subsidized regions experience a substantial reduction in funding

Method

• Synthetic control method (SCM)

Sources of Data

• Cambridge Econometrics’EuropeanRegional Database (ERD)

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Research Question or Area of interest

• How to estimate causal impacts when there is no control group, either because all units get treated or because the no-interference assumption is not plausible

Method

• Machine Learning Control Method, an approach that exploits pre-treatment data and supervised ML algorithms to forecast a post-treatment no-policy (no-shock) counterfactual scenario

Sources of Data

• Italian National Institute of Statistics (Istat) and Ministry of Economy and Finance (MEF) data

Research Question or Area of interest

• How local labour market (LLM) systems and dismissed workers react to a mass layoff in a manufacturing plant

Method

• Counterfactual methods

Sources of Data

• A novel dataset mainly based on the  INPS archive covering the universe of Italian employer-employee matches in the private sector and on ‘Tavoli di crisi’ official documents

Research Question or Area of interest

• The behavioural and distributive effects of a flat tax (FT) reform introduced in 2011 for residential property income in Italy replacing the progressive personal income tax

Method

• DiD

Sources of Data

• Administrative  dataset on  individual  tax returns from 2008 to 2015

Research Question or Area of interest

• The impact of legal restrictions pertaining to pharmacy licences on hospitalizations

Method

• Regression discontinuity design exploiting monthly data on hospitalizations within Italian provinces

Sources of Data

• Data from Federfarma on drug sales
• Admin data from the Italian Ministry of Health

Research Question or Area of interest

• The impact of a pharmaceutical pricing regulation change that occurred in Germany in 2011 (the AMNOG bill) on foreign pharmaceutical prices

Method

• DiD

Sources of Data

• Pricing Insights IMS database
• Data from EMA

Research Question or Area of interest

• The relationships between public misperceptions about the views of doctors and the COVID-19 vaccines uptake

Method

• Randomization inference methods
• DiD

Sources of Data

• Survey among 9,650 doctors in the Czech Republic and find that 90% of doctors trust the vaccines

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Research Question or Area of interest

• The effect of reducing the number of exam sessions on student performance

Method

• DiD with Propensity Score Matching

Sources of Data

• Administrative data from University of Bologna

Research Question or Area of interest

• The effect of the Covid-19 pandemic on gender differences in university student performance

Method

• DiDiD (triple-difference research design)

Sources of Data

• Administrative data from the University of Milan

Research Question or Area of interest

• The effect of the 2012 Fornero reform of employment protection legislation (EPL) and temporary work on firms’ labor demand by education (skill level)

Method

• DiD

Sources of Data

• Italian National Social Security Institute (INPS) administrative data

Research Question or Area of interest

• Regional differences in Covid-19 related mortality

Method

• Difference-in-geographic regression
• Discontinuity design

Sources of Data

• Administrative data from the Italian Statistical Institute (ISTAT)

Research Question or Area of interest

• The impact of liberalizing the opening of new pharmacies on hospitalizations and the related expenditure

Method

• Regression discontinuity-in-time design (RDiT)

Sources of Data

• Administrative data on hospital discharges (2010-2019) from the Italian Ministry of Health

Research Question or Area of interest

• Urban Economics

Method

For the reduced-form estimation part:

• Fixed effects
• 2-stage least squares (IV)
• 3-stage least squares

For the structural estimation part:

• Classical Minimum Distance (CMD) estimator

Sources of Data

• Administrative data from Statistics Office of the City of Lugano (income-based population composition)
• Meta-Sys AG (housing rental prices)
• Office of Mobility of Canton Ticino (traffic data)

Research Question or Area of interest

• Skilled immigration policy
• Labor mobility
• Wage differentials
• Long-term unemployment

Method

• DiD
• Event-study
• Logit model

Sources of Data

• Social security records