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"I wish I knew ..." - Misperceived Ability, School Track Counseling Services and Performances in Upper Secondary Education

Bernardi, Martino; Bratti, Massimiliano; De Simone, … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

Previous research shows that, in tracked school systems, enrollment decisions are strongly associated with future outcomes both in education and on the labour market. Yet few studies explicitly investigate whether students (and their parents) have all the relevant information they need to make...

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Should You Compete or Cooperate with Your Schoolmates?

Bratti, Massimiliano; Checchi, Daniele; Filippin, Antonio - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008

Building upon some education studies finding that cooperative behaviour in class yields better achievements among students, this paper presents a simple model showing that free riding incentives lead to an insufficient degree of cooperation between schoolmates, which in turn decreases the...

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Local Human Capital Externalities and Wages at the Firm Level: The Case of Italian Manufacturing

Bratti, Massimiliano; Leombruni, Roberto - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009

We use a unique firm-level data set merging administrative information on average wages paid by firms by skill level (blue collars and white collars), Population Census information on the local stock of human capital available to firms and survey information on firm characteristics to...

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Does the Choice of University Matter? A Study of the Differences across UK Universites in Life Sciences Students' Degree Performance

Bratti, Massimiliano - EconWPA - 2001

This paper investigates differences across UK universities in 1993 life sciences students' degree performance using individual-level data from the Universities' Statistical Record (USR). Differences across universities are analysed by specifying and estimating a subject- specific educational...

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Territorial Differences in Italian Students’ Mathematical Competencies: Evidence from PISA 2003

Bratti, Massimiliano; Checchi, Daniele; Filippin, Antonio - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

In this paper we investigate the existence and the size of territorial differences in Italian students’ mathematical competencies. Our analysis benefits from a new data set that merges the 2003 wave of the OECD Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) with territorial data...

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Re-testing PISA Students One Year Later: On School Value Added Estimation Using OECD-PISA

Bratti, Massimiliano; Checchi, Daniele - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

added based on PISA student literacy, which measures "knowledge for life", tend to be very volatile over time whenever there …

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The Effect of (Mostly Unskilled) Immigration on the Innovation of Italian Regions

Bratti, Massimiliano; Conti, Chiara - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

We use small Italian regions (i.e. provinces) to investigate the causal effect of foreign immigration on innovation … immigrants did not have any effect on innovation. However, decomposing the overall effect into the contributions of low- and high … applications by about 0.2%. By contrast, the impact of high-skilled immigrants on innovation is positive, in line with the previous …

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