Events

Massimiliano Bratti on the effects of a reform of the financial aid system for university students.

Antonio Parbonetti on the demonstration that when a criminal firm is eliminated from an industry, the performance of non-criminal competitors significantly increases.

Moris Triventi on the effect of prenatal maternal stress on pregnancy outcomes (low birth weight and prematurity)

Agata Maida on the measures aimed at breaking the “glass ceiling”

Ainhoa Aparicio Fenoll on the choice of parents for their children to start elementary school one year earlier.

Alessandra Casarico on novel measures to reduce gender gaps in political empowerment.

Causality is of growing concern in sociological research. Advances in statistical methods (like matching, instrumental variables, difference-in-difference designs etc.) are one indicator of this development.

In this paper we use different measures of routine intensity and different datasets (EWCS, PIAAC, PDII, O*NET, plus the LFS) to provide a broad picture of routinization in the EU, also focusing on across-time changes