Livio Di Matteo
Biographic Data
| ID | 365575 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Livio Di Matteo |
| GIVEN NAMES | Livio |
| FAMILY NAME | Di Matteo |
| SIGNATURE | DI MATTEO L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Lakehead University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 24 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 41 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 24 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1992 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Influenza pandemics and macroeconomic fluctuations 1871–2016
This paper documents the short-run macroeconomic impacts of influenza pandemics across 16 countries spanning 1871-2016 using the Jordà-Schularick-Taylor Macrohistory Database and the Human Mortality Database. We find pandemic-induced mortality contributed meaningfully to business cycle fluctuations in the post 1870 era. We identify negative causal impacts on the cyclical component of GDP using pandemics to instrument for working-age mortality. Th…
Does economic inequality breed murder? An empirical investigation of the relationship between economic inequality and homicide rates in Canadian provinces and CMAs
An Introduction to The Impact of Universal Medicare on the Previously Insured Poor and Nonpoor , a Study on the Impact of Medicare in Nova Scotia by Murray G. Brown and Vernon A. Hicks
This research note directs the attention of policy scholars to a unique and important research study on Canadian Medicare that is not generally known. Conducted by Murray G. Brown and Vernon A. Hicks, the study examined the impact of Medicare on the demand for services in Nova Scotia before and after the introduction of universal medical care insurance. Titled The Impact of Universal Medicare on the Previously Insured Poor and Nonpoor, this resea…
Arrested Development
Northern Ontario’s economy began as a booming nineteenth-century resource frontier because of international market demand for natural resource commodities, private sector business investment, and government initiatives in transportation and protectionism. During northern Ontario’s development, economic growth was most robust during eras when these engines came together to provide economic growth and employment creation. Export-led growth approach…
Does Egalitarianism Come at a Price? Inequality and Economic Performance in Late-Nineteenth-Century Ontario
The relationship between economic performance and wealth inequality at a regional level is examined using county-level wealth for Ontario in 1892 and 1902. The results find that after controlling for confounding factors, declining wealth inequality was generally accompanied by slower economic performance as measured by changes in wealth levels and manufacturing output over time. This suggests that a more egalitarian wealth distribution came perha…
Wealth Distribution and the Canadian Middle Class
Historical and modern wealth microdata examines the long-term evolution in Canadian wealth inequality. Wealth inequality has increased in recent decades but is more equally distributed than a century ago. The chief beneficiaries of a more “equitable” wealth distribution were the “middle” shares, as represented by the next 40 percent of the distribution after the top 10 percent. Despite the onset of more redistributive government in the twentieth …
Women, wealth and economic change
Land and inequality in Canada 1870–1930
The great world economic and globalisation boom of the pre-First World War era was accompanied by great inequality in the distribution of income and wealth particularly during industrialisation, with the new world European settler economies being no exception. Canadian wealth inequality over the period 1870–1930 was also substantial and is examined using probated estates from the Eastern Judicial District of the province of Manitoba and Wentworth…
Wealth accumulation motives
The Effect of Religious Denomination on Wealth
The wealth of probated decedents from late-nineteenth-century and early-twentieth-century Ontario is analyzed for evidence of the impact of religious affiliation on the level of wealth and rate of wealth accumulation. After controlling for age, birthplace, occupation, gender, urbanization, and other factors, the results suggest that relative to Anglicans, the wealth of Methodists and Roman Catholics was significantly lower. Moreover, when religio…
Is It Better to Live in a Basement, an Attic or to Get Your Own Place? Analyzing the Costs and Benefits of Institutional Change for Northwestern Ontario
Livio Di Matteo, J. C. Herbert Emery, Ryan English, Is It Better to Live in a Basement, an Attic or to Get Your Own Place? Analyzing the Costs and Benefits of Institutional Change for Northwestern Ontario, Canadian Public Policy / Analyse de Politiques, Vol. 32, No. 2 (Jun., 2006), pp. 173-195
Resource boom and bust, 1885–1920
Wealth micro‐data from records probated by the Thunder Bay District Surrogate Court for 1885–1920 are examined. These data span the Canadian wheat boom era and find a break in wealth accumulation over the period 1900–1914. A bust follows the boom and real wealth during 1915–1920 is approximately 75% lower than 1910–1914. Regression results show the key determinants of wealth in the region to be time period variables, gender, literacy, occupation,…
Eric J. Hanson's Financial History of Alberta, 1905-1950
Wealth and the demand for life insurance
Public Homecare Expenditures in Canada
An examination of Canadian provincial government homecare expenditures finds wide differences in real per capita public homecare expenditures. The key determinants of real per capita provincial public homecare expenditures are real provincial per capita income, variables representing the proportion of the provincial population aged 65 and older, real per capita federal health transfers and the proportion of provincial GDP devoted to health expend…
Patterns and Determinants of Wealth Inequality in Late-Nineteenth-Century Ontario
This article shows that late-nineteenth-century wealth inequality was associated with rising wealth levels supporting the existence of a Kuznets-type curve, but this curve is not unconditional.The tendency of wealth inequality to vary with age means that wealth inequality was also a function of the changing age composition of the population and may have been the result of portfolio allocation decisions across the life cycle. Canada's population “…
Fiscal Imbalance and Economic Development in Canadian History
By examining regional differences in per capita government expenditures and revenues in the province of Ontario between 1871 and 1911, this paper explores a dimension of the heartland-hinterland relationship. If provincial government expenditures and revenues are allocated on a regional basis between northern and southern Ontario during this period, it is clear that there was a difference in regional net benefits. That is, there was a regional di…
Wealth Accumulation and the Life-Cycle in Economic History
The Determinants of the Wealth and Asset Holding in Nineteenth-Century Canada
Wealth and asset holding in late-nineteenth-century Ontario are examined using a new data set of census-linked probated decedents. Hump-shaped wealth-age profiles are found, supporting the importance of demographic and life cycle forces in late-nineteenth-century financial asset accumulation. With financial asset holding more pronounced in Ontario than Quebec, the implication for Canadian economic development is that the differences in capital fo…
An analysis of Canadian cross-border travel
The Wealth of the Irish in Nineteenth-Century Ontario
Booming Sector Models, Economic Base Analysis, and Export-led Economic Development
The early economic development of regions of recent European settlement such as Canada, the United States, Australia, and Argentina was similar in that each region began by exporting products with a high natural resource content. Yet in each case the pace and character of growth and development has differed depending on the timing of the initial settlement, the nature of institutions, and the type of resource export and its market demand. The eco…
Booming Sector Models, Economic Base Analysis, and Export-Led Economic Development
Livio Di Matteo, Booming Sector Models, Economic Base Analysis, and Export-Led Economic Development: Regional Evidence from the Lakehead, Social Science History, Vol. 17, No. 4 (Winter, 1993), pp. 593-617
Canadian Wealth Inequality in the Late Nineteenth Century
Wealth Accumulation and the Life-Cycle in Economic History
The Determinants of the Wealth and Asset Holding in Nineteenth-Century Canada
Wealth and asset holding in late-nineteenth-century Ontario are examined using a new data set of census-linked probated decedents. Hump-shaped wealth-age profiles are found, supporting the importance of demographic and life cycle forces in late-nineteenth-century financial asset accumulation. With financial asset holding more pronounced in Ontario than Quebec, the implication for Canadian economic development is that the differences in capital fo…
An analysis of Canadian cross-border travel
Public Homecare Expenditures in Canada
An examination of Canadian provincial government homecare expenditures finds wide differences in real per capita public homecare expenditures. The key determinants of real per capita provincial public homecare expenditures are real provincial per capita income, variables representing the proportion of the provincial population aged 65 and older, real per capita federal health transfers and the proportion of provincial GDP devoted to health expend…
Women, wealth and economic change
Wealth and the demand for life insurance
The Wealth of the Irish in Nineteenth-Century Ontario
Patterns and Determinants of Wealth Inequality in Late-Nineteenth-Century Ontario
This article shows that late-nineteenth-century wealth inequality was associated with rising wealth levels supporting the existence of a Kuznets-type curve, but this curve is not unconditional.The tendency of wealth inequality to vary with age means that wealth inequality was also a function of the changing age composition of the population and may have been the result of portfolio allocation decisions across the life cycle. Canada's population “…
Booming Sector Models, Economic Base Analysis, and Export-Led Economic Development
Livio Di Matteo, Booming Sector Models, Economic Base Analysis, and Export-Led Economic Development: Regional Evidence from the Lakehead, Social Science History, Vol. 17, No. 4 (Winter, 1993), pp. 593-617
Canadian Wealth Inequality in the Late Nineteenth Century
Booming Sector Models, Economic Base Analysis, and Export-led Economic Development
The early economic development of regions of recent European settlement such as Canada, the United States, Australia, and Argentina was similar in that each region began by exporting products with a high natural resource content. Yet in each case the pace and character of growth and development has differed depending on the timing of the initial settlement, the nature of institutions, and the type of resource export and its market demand. The eco…
Booming Sector Models, Economic Base Analysis, and Export-Led Economic Development
Livio Di Matteo, Booming Sector Models, Economic Base Analysis, and Export-Led Economic Development: Regional Evidence from the Lakehead, Social Science History, Vol. 17, No. 4 (Winter, 1993), pp. 593-617
An analysis of Canadian cross-border travel
The Wealth of the Irish in Nineteenth-Century Ontario
The Determinants of the Wealth and Asset Holding in Nineteenth-Century Canada
Wealth and asset holding in late-nineteenth-century Ontario are examined using a new data set of census-linked probated decedents. Hump-shaped wealth-age profiles are found, supporting the importance of demographic and life cycle forces in late-nineteenth-century financial asset accumulation. With financial asset holding more pronounced in Ontario than Quebec, the implication for Canadian economic development is that the differences in capital fo…
Wealth Accumulation and the Life-Cycle in Economic History
Fiscal Imbalance and Economic Development in Canadian History
By examining regional differences in per capita government expenditures and revenues in the province of Ontario between 1871 and 1911, this paper explores a dimension of the heartland-hinterland relationship. If provincial government expenditures and revenues are allocated on a regional basis between northern and southern Ontario during this period, it is clear that there was a difference in regional net benefits. That is, there was a regional di…
Public Homecare Expenditures in Canada
An examination of Canadian provincial government homecare expenditures finds wide differences in real per capita public homecare expenditures. The key determinants of real per capita provincial public homecare expenditures are real provincial per capita income, variables representing the proportion of the provincial population aged 65 and older, real per capita federal health transfers and the proportion of provincial GDP devoted to health expend…
Patterns and Determinants of Wealth Inequality in Late-Nineteenth-Century Ontario
This article shows that late-nineteenth-century wealth inequality was associated with rising wealth levels supporting the existence of a Kuznets-type curve, but this curve is not unconditional.The tendency of wealth inequality to vary with age means that wealth inequality was also a function of the changing age composition of the population and may have been the result of portfolio allocation decisions across the life cycle. Canada's population “…
Wealth and the demand for life insurance
Resource boom and bust, 1885–1920
Wealth micro‐data from records probated by the Thunder Bay District Surrogate Court for 1885–1920 are examined. These data span the Canadian wheat boom era and find a break in wealth accumulation over the period 1900–1914. A bust follows the boom and real wealth during 1915–1920 is approximately 75% lower than 1910–1914. Regression results show the key determinants of wealth in the region to be time period variables, gender, literacy, occupation,…
Eric J. Hanson's Financial History of Alberta, 1905-1950
Is It Better to Live in a Basement, an Attic or to Get Your Own Place? Analyzing the Costs and Benefits of Institutional Change for Northwestern Ontario
Livio Di Matteo, J. C. Herbert Emery, Ryan English, Is It Better to Live in a Basement, an Attic or to Get Your Own Place? Analyzing the Costs and Benefits of Institutional Change for Northwestern Ontario, Canadian Public Policy / Analyse de Politiques, Vol. 32, No. 2 (Jun., 2006), pp. 173-195
The Effect of Religious Denomination on Wealth
The wealth of probated decedents from late-nineteenth-century and early-twentieth-century Ontario is analyzed for evidence of the impact of religious affiliation on the level of wealth and rate of wealth accumulation. After controlling for age, birthplace, occupation, gender, urbanization, and other factors, the results suggest that relative to Anglicans, the wealth of Methodists and Roman Catholics was significantly lower. Moreover, when religio…
Wealth accumulation motives
Land and inequality in Canada 1870–1930
The great world economic and globalisation boom of the pre-First World War era was accompanied by great inequality in the distribution of income and wealth particularly during industrialisation, with the new world European settler economies being no exception. Canadian wealth inequality over the period 1870–1930 was also substantial and is examined using probated estates from the Eastern Judicial District of the province of Manitoba and Wentworth…
Women, wealth and economic change
Wealth Distribution and the Canadian Middle Class
Historical and modern wealth microdata examines the long-term evolution in Canadian wealth inequality. Wealth inequality has increased in recent decades but is more equally distributed than a century ago. The chief beneficiaries of a more “equitable” wealth distribution were the “middle” shares, as represented by the next 40 percent of the distribution after the top 10 percent. Despite the onset of more redistributive government in the twentieth …
Does Egalitarianism Come at a Price? Inequality and Economic Performance in Late-Nineteenth-Century Ontario
The relationship between economic performance and wealth inequality at a regional level is examined using county-level wealth for Ontario in 1892 and 1902. The results find that after controlling for confounding factors, declining wealth inequality was generally accompanied by slower economic performance as measured by changes in wealth levels and manufacturing output over time. This suggests that a more egalitarian wealth distribution came perha…
Does economic inequality breed murder? An empirical investigation of the relationship between economic inequality and homicide rates in Canadian provinces and CMAs
An Introduction to The Impact of Universal Medicare on the Previously Insured Poor and Nonpoor , a Study on the Impact of Medicare in Nova Scotia by Murray G. Brown and Vernon A. Hicks
This research note directs the attention of policy scholars to a unique and important research study on Canadian Medicare that is not generally known. Conducted by Murray G. Brown and Vernon A. Hicks, the study examined the impact of Medicare on the demand for services in Nova Scotia before and after the introduction of universal medical care insurance. Titled The Impact of Universal Medicare on the Previously Insured Poor and Nonpoor, this resea…
Arrested Development
Northern Ontario’s economy began as a booming nineteenth-century resource frontier because of international market demand for natural resource commodities, private sector business investment, and government initiatives in transportation and protectionism. During northern Ontario’s development, economic growth was most robust during eras when these engines came together to provide economic growth and employment creation. Export-led growth approach…
Influenza pandemics and macroeconomic fluctuations 1871–2016
This paper documents the short-run macroeconomic impacts of influenza pandemics across 16 countries spanning 1871-2016 using the Jordà-Schularick-Taylor Macrohistory Database and the Human Mortality Database. We find pandemic-induced mortality contributed meaningfully to business cycle fluctuations in the post 1870 era. We identify negative causal impacts on the cyclical component of GDP using pandemics to instrument for working-age mortality. Th…
Economics (21 works) · Demographic economics (13 works) · Sociology (11 works) · Demography (10 works) · Historical Economic and Social Studies (10 works) · Geography (9 works) · Political science (8 works) · Development economics (6 works) · Inequality (6 works) · Population (6 works)