Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/236317 
Year of Publication: 
2021
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 14286
Publisher: 
Institute of Labor Economics (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
Migration movements may increase the geographic dispersion of the Aversion to Breaking Rules (ABR) in a population, with possible long-term economic consequences. We show this result with Italian Census data, using indicators of false birth date registrations for families of South-North migrants and remainers in the two macro-regions. Within locality×biennium cells, deterrence and cheating benefits are similar in the two groups and thus cheating differences are informative about the underlying ABR, as our theory suggests. We also exploit the Fascist reforms of 1926 as shocks to deterrence, offering additional information on the underlying ABR of migrant and remainer families.
Subjects: 
migration
aversion to breaking rules
Italy
JEL: 
J61
C93
R23
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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