Background Childhood obesity, epidemic in the United States, has been accompanied by
an increase in the prevalence of type 2 diabetes among children and adolescents. We …

Background Impaired glucose tolerance is common among obese adolescents, but the
changes in insulin sensitivity and secretion that lead to this prediabetic state are unknown. We …

In this paper we attempt to identify behavioral differences between public and private not‐for‐profit
hospitals, by exploiting the introduction of the DRG‐based payment system in the …

Social Impact Bonds (SIBs) have alternatively been portrayed as a promising tool to improve
the functioning of welfare systems, or as an instrument of neo‐liberalism that threatens to …

OBJECTIVE: To determine short- and long-term effects of the Bright Bodies Weight Management
Program on obese adolescents and to further observe if a diet or nondiet approach is …

Clinical trials have demonstrated traditional spa therapy effects in musculoskeletal disorders
(MSDs). This is the first observational study in Italy aimed at evaluating in real-life the short-…

In this paper we deal with the role of proprietary structure in explaining efficiency within the
Italian school industry. We analyze a sample of 497 schools located in Piemonte, a region in …

… associate, Dr Gian Paolo Barbetta, with contributions from … and qualitative information, Dr
Barbetta shows that nonprofit … One reason for this, Dr Barbetta suggests, is the ambiguous …

We analyze the Italian personal income tax (PIT) in the light of the different tools available to
the government to achieve income redistribution. We focus in particular on three …

… We assembled a new data set (Barbetta 2019) that merges individual performance on the
INVALSI test in the 2012–2013 SY with information included in two different administrative …