The paper examines the gender wage gap in Italy during the 2008-2012 economic crisis, using cross-sectional EU …. After 2010 the growth of the Italian gender wage gap (and its unexplained component) was particularly high in the upper part … one of the major causes of the growth of the gap, disproportionately affecting women, who are more likely to be employed …

This paper investigates regional public-private wage differentials in Italy. Following the recent wave of reforms that …

We discuss how a schooling system's structure may imply that private school enrolment leads to worse subsequent … Italian secondary school graduates, interviewed 3 year after graduation. In these data, the impact of observable talent …

Italy, Brazil and then finally India. We also show that autonomous government schools (i.e. government funded but with …

centralized systems (Italy and Germany) lagging behind the more autonomous ones (Canada, Sweden, the UK, the US). For Italy, we … are able to match organizational practices at the school level with students' outcomes in a math standardized test. We … find that managerial practices are positively related to students' outcomes. The estimates imply that if Italy had the same …

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 turnover of school principals over this period allows us to causally …