University of Venice. Academic achievements are measured with the students' grade point averages and time to graduation. The set …This paper investigates the determinants of academic achievements of post-reform undergraduate students of Ca' Foscari … of independent variables contains information on students' personal characteristics, prior academic achievements, family …

the 1998 reform, which decentralized the recruitment of professors from the national to the university level. To capture … familism we use a novel dataset on Italian university professors between 1988 and 2008 focusing on the informative content of … department relative to that in the underlying general population. Our results suggest that increased autonomy by local university …

cost of public funds, and there is a substantial redistribution from students to outsiders. …

students in Europe. We use various measures on the quality of a country’s higher education system in an extended gravity model …. We find that quality has a positive and significant effect on the size and direction of flows of students exchanged …

with an elite university in the 1970s; this effect weakened in the 1980s and disappeared in the 1990s. We decompose this … university fixed effect and find that its decline is due to the reduced importance of physical access to productive research …

and the students' low willingness to travel to other institutions. Furthermore, we find that the financial incentives …