Le coordinate emotive e i meccanismi della memoria in Approssimato per difetto di Gina Lagorio

Through a complex architecture and the multiplication of levels, between passages of perspective and references and connections between past, present and future, Approssimato per difetto confirms the characteristic of stratification and multidimensionality of the literary dimension of Gina Lagorio. Thanks to the literary tool of memory, central to the writer’s poetics, the narrative is managed in a dynamic interweaving of levels and solutions that involves and complicates the relationship be...

Joan Estelrich entre la vida y los libros

Household consumption allocation and the collective household model: Children share of household resources in the Gambia

This paper applies the collective household model to allocate household resources among household members. With a Collective Quadratic Almost Ideal Demand System (CQUAIDS) estimated by a Feasible Generalized Nonlinear Least Squares (FGNLS) method, it studies the household demand for six categories of household goods using household income and expenditure survey data from The Gambia, directed to studying the allocation of resources among young and adult members of households in The Gambia. It ...

Trust in the Financial Performance of Pension Funds, Public Perception, and its Effect on Participation in Voluntary Pension Saving Plans

We investigate the determinants of trust in one’s pension fund and the effect of trust on the decision to ensure additional pension savings. Our analysis is based on exogenous shocks arising from pension cuts and indexation, and on how these are perceived. These instruments allow identifying the effect of trust in pension funds on participation in voluntary pension saving plans. We disentangle the effects of age, birth cohort, and time in the determination of trust, and counter previous findi...