“...Relying on a natural experiment consisting in 130 competitions for promotion to associate and full professor in Italian universities, we analyse whether gender...”

“...We analyze how the absence behavior of Italian public sector employees has been affected by a law, passed in June 2008, reducing sick leave compensation and...”

“...•We run an experiment to investigate whether overconfidence is affected by superstition.•We find heterogeneous effects according to gender.•Females are...”

“...We analyse peer effects among students of a middle-sized Italian public university. We explain students' average grade in exams passed during their Second...”

“...In this paper, we analyze class size effects on college students exploiting data from a project offering special remedial courses in mathematics and language...”

“...Using daily scanner data we analyze consumers' reactions to negative information with regard to product quality with reference to a fraud that involved a...”

“...In this paper, we analyse whether the characteristics of university teaching staff matter with regard to students' performance and interest in the discipline...”

“...Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Risk attitudes; Natural disasters; Instrumental variables This paper investigates the impact of risk attitudes on the decision to...”

“...Using data on about 35,000 professional tennis matches, we test whether men and women react differently to psychological pressure arising from the outcomes of...”