opportunities. It examines Italy’s experience during the 1990s, when policy changes prompted HE institutions to offer a wider range … university enrolment but not on that of obtaining a university degree. …

Higher education contributes to economic innovation. This study measures and compares the extent to which national … higher education performance in education, research and economic innovation, using non-arbitrary weights and eighteen policy …

native and foreign STEM graduates have statistically significant and economically large effects on innovation. Together these … results suggest that policies that increase the stocks of both foreign and native STEM graduates increase innovation and …

research would be helpful. Universities can contribute to recreating hope and optimism through more innovation in the economy. …

We use small Italian regions (i.e. provinces) to investigate the causal effect of foreign immigration on innovation … immigrants did not have any effect on innovation. However, decomposing the overall effect into the contributions of low- and high … applications by about 0.2%. By contrast, the impact of high-skilled immigrants on innovation is positive, in line with the previous …

obtaining a university degree. However, university education does not shape those personality traits associated with a strong …

Over the last decade, many countries have experienced dramatic increases in university enrolment, which, when not … leading UK university, we present evidence on the effects of class size on students’ test scores. We observe the same student … also shows the class size effects are not mitigated for students with greater knowledge of the UK university system, this …

In this note we use unique data from Bar-Ilan University, over a period of four years (2005-2008), to estimate …