5 papers
Legal aid eligibility and court outcomes: a design-based double-machine-learning approach
Fabio Italo Martinenghi
Equality before the law is a human right, and access to high-quality legal aid for indigent defendants is essential to enforce it. In a context where all defendants have access to…
Pull-Forward and Induced Vaccination Under Time-Limited Mandates: Evidence from a Low-Coercion Mandate
Fabio I. Martinenghi, Mesfin Genie, Katie Attwell +6
Vaccine mandates featuring a deadline, i.e. time-limited, can raise uptake either by pulling forward vaccinations that would have occurred later or by inducing additional vaccinati…
Getting Explicit Instruction Right
Richard Holden, Fabio I. Martinenghi
There has been substantial public debate about the potentially deleterious effects of the long-run move to ``inquiry-based learning'' in which students are placed at the center of…
Conceiving Naturally After IVF: the effect of assisted reproduction on obstetric interventions and child health at birth
Fabio I. Martinenghi, Xian Zhang, Luk Rombauts +1
A growing share of the world's population is being born via assisted reproductive technology (ART), including in-vitro fertilisation (IVF). However, two concerns persist. First, AR…
Increasing the price of a university degree does not significantly affect enrolment if income contingent loans are available: evidence from HECS in Australia
Fabio Italo Martinenghi
I provide evidence that, when income-contingent loans are available, student enrolment in university courses is not significantly affected by large increases in the price of those…