Becchetti Leonardo

14 Ottobre 2009

66 – Productivity, wages and intrinsic motivation in social enterprises

Abstract In our empirical analysis of wage differentials in a sample of workers in the cooperative not for profit sector we find that, consistently with the […]
12 Ottobre 2009

64 – Children, happiness and taxation

Abstract Empirical analyses on the determinants of life satisfaction often include the impact of the number of children variable among available controls without fully discriminating between […]
20 Luglio 2009

63 – Virtuous interactions in removing exclusion: the link between foreign market access and access to education

Abstract We devise a retrospective panel data approach to evaluate the effects of fair trade affiliation on the schooling decisions of a sample of Thai organic […]
20 Marzo 2009

62 – Oltre la crisi nella società del rischio: il ruolo dell’economia civile

Introduzione Veniamo da un’epoca storica, quella della rivoluzione industriale, che ha generato un progresso senza precedenti in termini di benessere economico e di indicatori sociali se […]
20 Gennaio 2009

60 – Revisiting the economy by taking into account the different dimensions of well-being

Abstract In standard economic models benevolent governments are the unique actors in charge to tackle the problem of reconciling individual with social wellbeing in presence of […]
20 Gennaio 2008

48 – Does money affect happiness and self-esteem? The poor borrowers’ perspective in a quasi-natural experiment

Abstract Research on the nexus between life satisfaction and income has looked at lottery winners or postcommunism transition to document that exogenous changes in income generate […]
20 Giugno 2007

44 – Sociability and Happiness

Abstract The standard specification of utility functions in economic models usually neglects the effect of sociability on happiness. Our level and first difference panel estimates show […]
20 Ottobre 2005

21 – Corporate Social Responsibility And Profit Maximizing Behaviour

Abstract We examine the behavior of a profit maximizing monopolist in a horizontal differentiation model in which consumers differ in their degree of social responsibility (SR) […]
18 Maggio 2005

15 – The game of social responsibility: pioneers, imitators and social welfare

Abstract In this paper we outline a model of horizontal product differentiation where two duopolists – a profit maximising producer (PMP) and a “socially responsible” “fair […]
20 Febbraio 2005

8 – The dynamics of ethical product differentiation and the habit formation of socially responsible consumers

Abstract In our model of ethical product differentiation two duopolists (a zero profit socially concerned producer and a profit maximizing producer) compete over prices and (costly) […]