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Selecting or rewarding tachers? : international evidence from primary schools

Braga, Michela; Checchi, Daniele; Garrouste, Christelle; … - 2019

Using data from three waves of PIRLS, this paper examines the effect of teacher quality on fourth-grade students' literacy test scores by exploiting variations induced by reforms in teachers' selection and/or reward schemes. We construct an original data set of relevant reforms taking place at...

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Re-testing PISA students one year later : on school value added estimation using OECD-PISA

Bratti, Massimiliano; Checchi, Daniele - 2013

better measures of schools' contributions to student achievement. We show that while cross-sectional measures of school value …

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Private school quality in Italy

Bertola, Giuseppe (contributor); … - 2007

differ not only in terms of their families' ability to pay but also in terms of their own ability to take advantage of … educational opportunities ("talent" for short), theory predicts that private schools attract a worse pool of students when … publicly funded schools are better suited to foster progress by more talented students. We analyze empirically three surveys of …

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Should you compete or cooperate with your schoolmates?

Bratti, Massimiliano (contributor); … - 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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Who chooses which private education? : theory and international evidence

Bertola, Giuseppe; Checchi, Daniele - 2013

choice of private schooling by less capable students in countries where government schools are better suited to talented …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009755327

The effect of multigrade classes on cognitive and non-cognitive skills : causal evidence exploiting minimum class size rules in Italy

Checchi, Daniele; De Paola, Maria - 2017

We analyse how schooling in multigrade classes affect the formation of student cognitive and non-cognitive skills. Our identification strategy is based on some institutional features of the Italian educational system establishing a minimum number of students per class. Classes that do not reach...

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The effects of schooling on cognitive skills : evidence from education expansions

Cappellari, Lorenzo; Checchi, Daniele; Ovidi, Marco - 2023

We quantify the causal effect of schooling on cognitive skills across 21 countries and the full distribution of working-age individuals. We exploit exogenous variation in educational attainment induced by a broad set of institutional reforms affecting different cohorts of individuals in...

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Institutional reforms and educational attainment in Europe : a long run perspective

Braga, Michela; Checchi, Daniele; Meschi, Elena - 2011

In this paper we analyse the effects of changes in the institutional design of the educational system on school attainment. In particular, we test whether alternative reforms have increased the average educational attainment of the population and whether various deciles of the education...

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School quality and family background in Italy

Brunello, Giorgio (contributor); … - 2003 - [Elektronische Ressource]

We study whether the combined significant reduction in the pupil-teacher ratio and increase in parental education observed in Italy between the end of World War II and the end of the 1980s have had a significant impact on the educational attainment and the labor market returns of a...

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Publish or perish? : incentives and careers in Italian academia

Checchi, Daniele; De Fraja, Gianni; Verzillo, Stefano - 2014

We derive a theoretical model of effort in the presence of career concern based on the multi-unit all-pay auction, and closely inspired by the Italian academic market. In this model, the number of applicants, the number of new posts, and the relative importance of the determinants of promotion...

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