Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to study how graduates’ jobs may be determined by their educational performances and social background. In particular, the authors investigate job-education mismatch and job satisfaction to evaluate whether time spent and effort exerted during...

type="main" xml:lang="en" <p><b>Summary. </b> The paper analyses the data resulting from the Italian campaign for newborns’ parents, ‘GenitoriPiù’, and focuses on the assessment of healthcare workers’ knowledge about sudden infant death syndrome. Considering two different response sets...</p>

The Italian university system is adopting efficiency and effectiveness as criteria for process programming and result managing. Starting from the experience of some Italian universities, this book aims to infer upon the quality of the education achieved by graduates by surveying their transition...

In multilevel regression, centering the model variables produces effects that are different and sometimes unexpected compared with those in traditional regression analysis. In this article, the main contributions in terms of meaning, assumptions, and effects underlying a multilevel centering...

type="main" xml:id="obes12039-abs-0001" <title type="main">Abstract</title> <p>Self-reported life satisfaction is highly heterogeneous across similar countries, a phenomenon that may be explained by the different scales and benchmarks that people use to evaluate themselves. This study uses cross-sectional data gathered from...</p>