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Cooper lavora come corriere per Mercuryo, titanica multinazionale del commercio online, ma non è un corriere qualsiasi. Nessuno sa, infatti, che l’azienda possiede una tecnologia segreta capace di far viaggiare nel tempo! Un giorno però, durante una normale giornata di lavoro, avviene un piccolo contrattempo, che nel caso di spedizioni ordinarie comporterebbe solo un ritardo nella consegna, ma nel caso di Cooper rischia di bloccarlo nel passato! Una commedia fantascientifica beffarda e pirotecnica che, muovendosi fra futuro e passato, diventa una puntuale riflessione sul presente.

First published in 1999, the main feature of this book is its multidisciplinary nature, since the book focuses on the complexity of spatial/ economic networks from several methodological points of view. For this purpose both theoretical and empirical works have been included. The aim of the book is to provide an updated and fresh look at the mentioned issue with innovative and creative papers coming from leading experts belonging to different disciplines. Therefore the book could be considered as an expert and critical guide - through different methodological approaches - to the topic of (complex) networks in the space-economy. All the contributions provide innovative and in some cases provocative elements to the understanding of networks and development over space.

In this collection, early learners are encouraged to ask and answer questions -- the first is silly, and the second is real.

This is a collection of six titles that teaches children about the climate, plants and animals of different biomes; coral reefs, wetlands, forests, deserts, prairies, and rainforests.

This is a bundle of six titles in the series exploring the dangers of animals in the wild; Crocodile, Monkey, Platypus, Polar Bear, Swan and Tiger.

Physicians are often alleged responsible for the manipulation of delivery timing. We investigate this issue in a setting that negates the influence of financial incentives behind “physician''s demand induction” but allows for “risk aversion” to medical errors and “demand for leisure” motivations. Working on a sample of women admitted at the onset of labor in a big public hospital in Italy we estimate a model for the exact time of delivery as driven by individual indication to receive Caesarean Section (CS) and covariates. We find that ICS does not affect the day of delivery but leads to a circadian rhythm in the likelihood of delivery. The pattern is consistent with the postponement of high ICS deliveries in the late night early morning shift. Our evidence hardly supports the manipulation of timing of births as driven by medical staff''s “demand for leisure”. An explanation based on “risk aversion” attitude seems more appropriate.

Early learners are encouraged to ask and answer questions about nature (e.g. Why do rainbows have so many colors? Why do some trees lose their leaves? Why do some clouds have rain falling out of them? Why do volcanoes stay quiet for so long and then erupt? Why do flowers smell so good?) in this playful text. Each question is posed and answered first with an imaginative "silly" answer followed by the correct answer. The text sequence and repetition creates an engaging game for young readers as they are encouraged to dream up their own "silly" answer on the way to learning.

We study a simple exogeneity test in count data models with possibly endogenous multinomial treatment. The test is based on Two Stage Residual Inclusion (2SRI). Results from a broad Monte Carlo study provide novel evidence on important features of this approach in nonlinear settings. We find differences in the finite sample performance of various likelihood-based tests under correct specification and when the outcome equation is misspecified due to neglected over-dispersion or non-linearity. We compare alternative 2SRI procedures and uncover that standardizing the variance of the first stage residuals leads to higher power of the test and reduces the bias of the treatment coefficients. An original application in health economics corroborates our findings.

We adopt amulti-country setup to showthat years of schooling have a causal protective effect on the body mass index of females living in nine European countries. No such effect is found for males. The protective effect for European females is not negligible but is smaller than one recently found for the United States and stronger among overweight females. We discuss possible mechanisms justifying both the protective role of education and the gender difference in this role. We argue that the effects of additional schooling on income, the probability of employment, and the frequency of vigorous physical activities, both on and off the job, may help explain our results.

No passport necessary! With these handy guides to key phrases in foreign languages, readers will begin to learn conversational foreign language. Each book includes a pronunciation guide, alphabet sounds, and cool phrases that will have kids chatting in no time.

Each year about 20% of the 10 million hospital inpatients in Italy get admitted to hospitals outside the Local Health Authority of residence. In this paper we carefully explore this phenomenon and estimate gravity equations for ''trade'' in hospital care using a Poisson pseudo-maximum likelihood method. Consistency of the PPML estimator is guaranteed under the null of independence provided that the conditional mean is correctly specified. In our case we find that patients'' flows are affected by network autocorrelation. We correct for it by relying upon spatial filtering. Our results suggest that the gravity model is a good framework for explaining patient mobility in most of the examined diagnostic groups. We find that the ability to restrain patients'' outflows increases with the size of the pool of enrollees. Moreover, the ability to attract patients'' inflows is reduced by the size of pool of enroless for all LHAs except for the very big LHAs. For LHAs in the top quintile of size of enrollees, the ability to attract inflows increases with the size of the pool.

In this paper we use data coming from the new Italian Survey on Health Aging and Wealth (SHAW) to analyse physician services utilization in Italy explicitly acknowledging the existence of two different classes of providers: public and private. We consider visits by a specialist physician as the measure of individual services utilization. In particular we assess the relative importance of variables like income, education, private insurance and supply characteristics as determinants of the utilization of such services, while controlling for individual health and need. We do that by estimating some alternative count data regression models of which we discuss the relative advantages and disadvantages and the entailed different interpretation of the results.

In this paper we assess the relative effectiveness of user charges and administrative waiting times as a tool for rationing public healthcare in Italy. We measure demand elasticities by estimating a simultaneous equation model of GP primary care visits, public specialist consultations and private specialist consultations, as if they were part of an incomplete system of demand. We find that own price elasticity of the demand for public specialist consultation is about -0.3, while administrative waiting time plays a less important role. No substitution exists between the demand for public and private specialists, so that user charges act as a net deterrent for over-consumption. The public provision of healthcare does not induce the wealthy to opt out. Moreover our evidence suggests that user charges and waiting lists do not serve redistributive purposes.