In this partial equilibrium and static model, the impact of environmentalism on two countries’ environmental policies is presented. First, the only (indirect) way environmentalists influence the choice of pollution taxes is through a negative term in the welfare function in Home. It is defined as passive environmentalism (PE). Second, this article is a first attempt to consider domestic environ...

The literature on school choice assumes that families can submit a preference list over all the schools they want to be assigned to. However, in many real-life instances families are only allowed to submit a list containing a limited number of schools. Subjects’ incentives are drastically affected, as more individuals manipulate their preferentes. Including a safety school in the constrained li...

English. In this work we explore the possibility of training a neural network to classify and rank idiomatic expressions under constraints of data scarcity. We discuss our results comparing them both to other unsupervised models designed to perform idiom detection and to similar supervised classifiers trained to detect metaphoric bigrams. Italiano. In questo lavoro esploriamo la possibilità di ...

Riassunto: Questo contributo riflette le conoscenze acquisite in letteratura nello studio della mortalità dei bambini in Italia nel XIX secolo e nei primi decenni del secolo successivo, con speciale riferimento al tema delle determinanti della sopravvivenza infantile. La prima parte è una rassegna delle principali ipotesi avanzate a quest’ultimo riguardo dagli studi “ecologici”. Partendo da que...

La traduzione dal latino e dal greco come problem solving: in questo lavoro proponiamo un nuovo framework di riferimento per lo studio delle lingue classiche, nella convinzione che solo un forte ed esplicito cambiamento di paradigma possa restituire loro senso e valore nell’educazione contemporanea e renderle forti promotrici di “skills for life”. Questo framework inserisce le discipline nell’o...

Recently there has been a wide debate on the role of so-called noncognitive skills, misnomer for personal skills needed to cope positively with personal, social and professional life. In this contribution an attempt is made clarify their meaning, prospect development possible evaluation. Reference in framework mainly world work, which they are more specifically referred as soft skills.
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