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Agarwal, Lisha; Brunello, Giorgio; Rocco, Lorenzo - 2019

We estimate the effect of the high school curriculum (or track) on the returns to college using data from the Italian PLUS (Participation Labour and Unemployment Survey) survey. We find that college graduates with vocational high school are less likely to be employed than graduates with academic...

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Does college selectivity reduce obesity? : a partial identification approach

Brunello, Giorgio; Christelis, Dimitris; Sanz de … - 2022

treatment value assumption due to students interacting with each other, and to obtain informative identification regions for the …

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The labour market effects of academic and vocational education over the life cycle : evidence from two British cohorts

Brunello, Giorgio; Rocco, Lorenzo - 2015

Several commentators have argued that vocational education provides a smoother school to work transition than academic education. In the long - run, however, the skills it provides depreciate faster and individuals with this type of education are less capable of adapting to technical change....

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Why do students expect to stay longer in college? : evidence from Europe

Brunello, Giorgio; Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf - 2002

We investigate the expected college completion time of European college students by using data from a survey of more … than 3000 students in 10 countries. We explain observed excess time to graduation by paying special attention to labor …

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Residential peer effects in higher education: does the field of study matter?

Brunello, Giorgio (contributor); De Paola, Maria (contributor) - 2008

exploiting the random assignment of first year students to college accommodation, we find evidence that peer effects are positive … and statistically significant for students enrolled in the fields of Engineering, Maths and Natural Sciences - which are … expected to generate higher earnings after college - and not different from zero for students enrolled in the Humanities …

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Math scores in high stakes grades

Brunello, Giorgio; Kiss, David - 2019

We investigate whether tests taken during a high stakes grade by German primary and secondary students produce higher …

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Teacher personality and the perceived socioeconomic gap in student outcomes

Brunello, Giorgio; Crocè, Clementina; Giustinelli, Pamela - 2024

students' high school prospects with respect to students' socioeconomic background (SEB), ceteris paribus. We find that this … teacher's extraversion and openness are associated with a steeper negative SEB gradient in teachers' beliefs about students …' success prospects in an academic track. Conversely, more conscientious and agreeable teachers assign to low-SEB students, on …

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The wage expectations of European college students

Brunello, Giorgio; Lucifora, Claudio - 2001

the results of the first systematic study of the wage expectations of European college students. Our data are based on the … replies to the same questionnaire by more than 6000 college students all over Europe. We study the determinants of wage …-specific micro-data. In line with U.S. studies we find that students overestimate returns to education. …

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Income taxes and the composition of pay

Brunello, Giorgio (contributor); Comi, Simona (contributor); … - 2006

According to the standard principal-agent model, the optimal composition of pay should balance the provision of incentives with the individual demand for insurance. Do income taxes alter this balance? We show that the relative share of PRP on total pay is reduced by higher average taxes, and is...

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The costs of early school leaving in Europe

Brunello, Giorgio; De Paola, Maria - 2013

The reduction of early school leaving to less than 10 percent of the relevant population by 2020 is a headline target in the Europe 2020 strategy and one of the five benchmarks of the strategic framework for European cooperation in education and training. Designing adequate policies to combat...

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