Nicola Bianchi
Biographic Data
| ID | 3591609 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Nicola Bianchi |
| GIVEN NAMES | Nicola |
| FAMILY NAME | Bianchi |
| SIGNATURE | BIANCHI N |
| AFFILIATIONS | Northwestern University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6919-294X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 11 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The Effects of Fiscal Decentralisation on Publicly Provided Services and Labour Markets
This paper studies how fiscal decentralisation affects labour supply. It explores a reform that increased the fiscal autonomy of Italian municipalities by replacing government transfers with revenues from a local property tax. Our identification leverages cross-municipal variation in the degree of decentralisation that stems from differences in the average age of buildings caused by World War II bombings. Decentralisation expanded municipal servi…
Reconstruction Aid, Public Infrastructure, and Economic Development: The Case of the Marshall Plan in Italy
The Marshall Plan (1948-1952) was the largest aid transfer in history. This paper estimates its effects on Italy's postwar economic development. It exploits differences between Italian provinces in the value of reconstruction grants they received. Provinces that could modernize their infrastructure more quickly experienced higher increases in agricultural production, especially for perishable crops. In the same provinces, we observe larger invest…
The effect of computer-assisted learning on students’ long-term development
The Dynamics and Spillovers of Management Interventions: Evidence from the Training within Industry Program
This paper examines the long-term and spillover effects of management interventions on firm performance. Under the Training Within Industry (TWI) program, the U.S. government provided management training to firms involved in war production between 1940 and 1945. Using a newly collected panel dataset on all 11,575 U.S. firms that applied to the program, we find that the TWI training had positive and long-lasting effects on firm performance and the…
The Indirect Effects of Educational Expansions: Evidence from a Large Enrollment Increase in University Majors
Increasing access to education may have consequences that go beyond effects on marginal students encouraged to enroll. It may change peer effects, school quality, and returns to skill. This paper studies how classmates and teaching inputs affect learning of university students, exploiting an educational expansion in Italian STEM majors. Newly collected data on 27,236 students indicate that less prepared classmates and congestion of teaching resou…
Trace Elements in Eneolithic and Late Medieval Human Bones from Two Archaeological Sites in Tuscany: Evaluation of Diagenetic Processes, Diet and Exposure to Heavy Metals
Journal of Anthropology and Archaeology is a peer-reviewed international journal, which publishes original papers promoting theoretical, methodological and empirical developments in the discipline of socio-cultural anthropology
Compulsory licensing and innovation – Historical evidence from German patents after WWI
The effect of computer-assisted learning on students’ long-term development
Reconstruction Aid, Public Infrastructure, and Economic Development: The Case of the Marshall Plan in Italy
The Marshall Plan (1948-1952) was the largest aid transfer in history. This paper estimates its effects on Italy's postwar economic development. It exploits differences between Italian provinces in the value of reconstruction grants they received. Provinces that could modernize their infrastructure more quickly experienced higher increases in agricultural production, especially for perishable crops. In the same provinces, we observe larger invest…
Compulsory licensing and innovation – Historical evidence from German patents after WWI
The Effects of Fiscal Decentralisation on Publicly Provided Services and Labour Markets
This paper studies how fiscal decentralisation affects labour supply. It explores a reform that increased the fiscal autonomy of Italian municipalities by replacing government transfers with revenues from a local property tax. Our identification leverages cross-municipal variation in the degree of decentralisation that stems from differences in the average age of buildings caused by World War II bombings. Decentralisation expanded municipal servi…
The Dynamics and Spillovers of Management Interventions: Evidence from the Training within Industry Program
This paper examines the long-term and spillover effects of management interventions on firm performance. Under the Training Within Industry (TWI) program, the U.S. government provided management training to firms involved in war production between 1940 and 1945. Using a newly collected panel dataset on all 11,575 U.S. firms that applied to the program, we find that the TWI training had positive and long-lasting effects on firm performance and the…
Trace Elements in Eneolithic and Late Medieval Human Bones from Two Archaeological Sites in Tuscany: Evaluation of Diagenetic Processes, Diet and Exposure to Heavy Metals
Journal of Anthropology and Archaeology is a peer-reviewed international journal, which publishes original papers promoting theoretical, methodological and empirical developments in the discipline of socio-cultural anthropology
Compulsory licensing and innovation – Historical evidence from German patents after WWI
The Indirect Effects of Educational Expansions: Evidence from a Large Enrollment Increase in University Majors
Increasing access to education may have consequences that go beyond effects on marginal students encouraged to enroll. It may change peer effects, school quality, and returns to skill. This paper studies how classmates and teaching inputs affect learning of university students, exploiting an educational expansion in Italian STEM majors. Newly collected data on 27,236 students indicate that less prepared classmates and congestion of teaching resou…
The effect of computer-assisted learning on students’ long-term development
The Dynamics and Spillovers of Management Interventions: Evidence from the Training within Industry Program
This paper examines the long-term and spillover effects of management interventions on firm performance. Under the Training Within Industry (TWI) program, the U.S. government provided management training to firms involved in war production between 1940 and 1945. Using a newly collected panel dataset on all 11,575 U.S. firms that applied to the program, we find that the TWI training had positive and long-lasting effects on firm performance and the…
The Effects of Fiscal Decentralisation on Publicly Provided Services and Labour Markets
This paper studies how fiscal decentralisation affects labour supply. It explores a reform that increased the fiscal autonomy of Italian municipalities by replacing government transfers with revenues from a local property tax. Our identification leverages cross-municipal variation in the degree of decentralisation that stems from differences in the average age of buildings caused by World War II bombings. Decentralisation expanded municipal servi…
Reconstruction Aid, Public Infrastructure, and Economic Development: The Case of the Marshall Plan in Italy
The Marshall Plan (1948-1952) was the largest aid transfer in history. This paper estimates its effects on Italy's postwar economic development. It exploits differences between Italian provinces in the value of reconstruction grants they received. Provinces that could modernize their infrastructure more quickly experienced higher increases in agricultural production, especially for perishable crops. In the same provinces, we observe larger invest…
Business (4 works) · Economics (4 works) · Italy: Economic History and Contemporary Issues (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Psychology (3 works) · Archaeology (2 works) · Competition (biology (2 works) · Geography (2 works) · Government (linguistics (2 works) · Market economy (2 works)