-level data from all Italian universities in the period 2003-2013. In Italy, some of the students eligible for grants do not … that need-based aid prevents students belonging to low-income families from dropping out from higher education; the …

In this paper we study how the Great Recession affected university students in terms of performance, with a focus on … the drop-out probability. To do so, we use individual-level data on a representative sample of university students in … Italy in 2007 and 2011. We measure the severity of the recession in terms of increases in the adult and youth unemployment …

This paper estimates the impact of university teachers on their students' academic achievement and labor market … allocation of students to teachers in a fixed sequence of compulsory courses. We find that the academic and labor market returns … achievement of their best students are not always also the ones who boost their students' earnings the most, especially for the …

drop-out in Italy, one of the worst performers among developed countries. Based on detailed information on a representative … countries and find that differences in endowments only explain a minor fraction of the observed cross-country gap in students …

raised the aspirations of the target students and their participation in post compulsory education. However, its final effect … on college enrollment was negligible overall and appears concentrated among students from the most affluent families and …

understands is not associated with a better performance of less able students. On the contrary, it produces substantial … less able students without lowering the performance of the most able ones …

This paper contrasts measures of teacher effectiveness with the students’ evaluations of the same teachers using … administrative data from Bocconi University (Italy). The effectiveness measures are estimated by comparing the subsequent performance … in follow-on coursework of students who are randomly assigned to teachers in each of their compulsory courses. We find …

The paper assesses the extent to which mortgage rates in Italy are priced according to credit risk as proxied by the …