investments influencing parental time and economic resources invested in children's education. This aspect is related to the … children quantity-quality trade-off proposed by Becker that has been investigated only for a few countries because of data … limitations. We investigate this issue for Italy - even in the absence of Census data relating family of origin to children …

We analyse peer effects among students of a middle-sized Italian public university. We explain students' average grade … definitions of peer groups, describing different kinds of students' interaction, based on classes attended together or exams taken … instrument, the exogenous assigning of students to different teaching classes in the compulsory courses attended during their …

learning. This paper investigates the impact produced by this shift on students' performance. We use administrative data of … four cohorts of students enrolled in an Italian University and adopt a difference-in-differences strategy exploiting the … face-to-face in the first semester. We compare students' performance in the second semester of 2020 with their performance …