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Does management matter in schools?
Bloom, Nicholas; Lemos, Renata; Sadun, Raffaella; Van … - 2014
Italy, Brazil and then finally India. We also show that autonomous government schools (i.e. government funded but with …
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Managerial practices and students' performance
Di Liberto, Adriana; Schivardi, Fabiano; Sulis, Giovanni - 2014
centralized systems (Italy and Germany) lagging behind the more autonomous ones (Canada, Sweden, the UK, the US). For Italy, we … find that managerial practices are positively related to students' outcomes. The estimates imply that if Italy had the same …
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Diploma no problem : can private schools be of lower quality than public schools?
Brunello, Giorgio (contributor); Rocco, Lorenzo (contributor) - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]
Motivated by anecdotal as well as econometric evidence from Italy, we ask whether private schools can provide lower … offering at a positive price lower quality than the public school can be an equilibrium. The calibrated parameters for Italy …
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School choice and quality
Checchi, Daniele (contributor); Jappelli, Tullio (contributor) - 2003 - [Elektronische Ressource]
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Teacher allocation and school performance in Italy
Bryson, Alex; Corsini, Lorenzo; Martelli, Irene - 2020
Italy's secondary school system has faced funding constraints for many years which limits availability of new permanent … findings suggest there may be value in altering the way teachers are allocated to secondary schools in Italy. …
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The "gravity" of quality : research quality and universities' attractiveness in Italy
Bratti, Massimiliano; Verzillo, Stefano - 2017
attract students from other provinces in Italy. First university enrolments of students over the period 2003-2011 are … may be an effective way of reducing 'brain drain' from southern Italy …
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Managerial practices and student performance : evidence from changes in school principals
Di Liberto, Adriana; Giua, Ludovica; Schivardi, Fabiano; … - 2023
We study how managerial practices of school principals affect student performance and aspirations. We link administrative data on secondary Italian students to the management scores of their school principals in 2011 and 2015 based on the World Management Survey methodology. The frequent...
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Ambiguity on audits and cooperation in a public goods game
Dai, Zhixin; Hogarth, Robin M.; Villeval, Marie-Claire - 2014
We investigate the impact of various audit schemes on the future provision of public goods, when contributing less than the average of the group is sanctioned exogenously and the probability of an audit is unknown. We study how individuals update their beliefs about the probability of being...
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On monetary and non-monetary interventions to combat corruption
Banerjee, Ritwik; Mitra, Arnab - 2017
The paper studies the relative effectiveness of extrinsic monetary disincentives and intrinsic non-monetary disincentives to corruption. In doing so, we also test the Beckarian prediction that at the same level of expected payoff, a low probability of detection with high penalty is a stronger...
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Tax audits as scarecrows : evidence from a large-scale field experiment
Bergolo, Marcelo; Ceni, Rodrigo; Cruces, Guillermo; … - 2019
The canonical model of Allingham and Sandmo (1972) predicts that firms evade taxes by optimally trading off between the costs and benefits of evasion. However, there is no direct evidence that firms react to audits in this way. We conducted a large-scale field experiment in collaboration with...
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