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Financial exclusion concerns 2.5 billion individuals and more than 450 million enterprises. The G20 countries are committed to the reduction of this phenomenon. The Bank of Italy has a fundamental role in the field of financial inclusion, both on a national and an international scale through...
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In the 2008-09 school year the Bank of Italy and the Italian Ministry of Education started an experimental program to incorporate financial education into school curricula. This paper describes the experience since then. According to the program, teachers receive training from the Bank on...
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We combine individual and aggregate-level level data on educational attainment to study the determinants of university drop-out in Italy, one of the worst performers among developed countries. Based on detailed information on a representative sample of secondary school graduates and on local...
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Participation in supplementary pension funds allows workers to exploit tax benefits and payroll employees to take advantage of employer contributions. The simulations reported in the paper show that these two components can considerably increase workers' retirement wealth. Data show that returns...
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solving. Italian students performed better in the CBA than in the paper-based assessment (PBA). This was not due to any … seems to be that Italian students are less determined in their approach to paper-based tests, during which they often fail … to read all the questions and have trouble in finishing in the allotted time. Furthermore, this study finds that students …
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We estimate the contemporaneous effect of education on adolescent crime by exploiting the variation in crime rates between different cohorts and at different ages that followed a reform that raised the school-leaving age in Italy. A 1 percentage-point increase of the enrollment rate reduces...
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We examine the relationship between education and mortality in a young population of Italian males. In 1981 several cohorts of young men from specific southern towns were unexpectedly exempted from compulsory military service after a major quake hit the region. Comparisons of exempt cohorts from...
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in follow-on coursework of students who are randomly assigned to teachers in each of their compulsory courses. We find …, teachers who are associated with better subsequent performance receive worse evaluations from their students. We rationalize … improve future outcomes. Hence, if students are short-sighted and give better evaluations to teachers from whom they derive …
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measurement errors � which require the exclusion of schools with too few students tested � and taking into account the …
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We investigate how the evidence for Italy from simple growth accounting exercises is modified by more accurate measurements of inputs. We describe the dynamics of total factor productivity in the last 20 years in Italy, and review theoretical and measurement issues that complicate the picture...
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