Browsing by Author "Brilli, Ylenia"
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Birth Weight, Neonatal Intensive Care Units, and Infant Mortality: Evidence from Macrosomic Babies
Brilli, Ylenia; Restrepo, Brandon J. (2017-09)Using a regression discontinuity design, this study estimates the effect of extra medical care on the short-run health of babies born at the high end of the birth weight distribution. Consistent with the notion that neonatal ... -
Does increasing compulsory education decrease or displace adolescent crime? New evidence from administrative and victimization data
Brilli, Ylenia; Tonello, Marco (2016-10)This paper estimates the contemporaneous effect of education on adolescent crime by exploiting the implementation a reform that increases the school leaving age in Italy by one year. We find that the Reform increases the ... -
Mother’s Time Allocation, Child Care and Child Cognitive Development
Brilli, Ylenia (2017-02)This paper analyzes the effects of maternal employment and non-parental child care on child cognitive development, taking into account the mother's time allocation between leisure and child-care time. I estimate a behavioral ...