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Checchi, Daniele; Jappelli, Tullio - 2003

The 1993 Survey of Household Income and Wealth, a representative survey of the Italian population covering 24,000 individuals, reports detailed information on children attendance of public and private schools and parents? self-assessment of the quality of public schools in the city of residence....

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Institutional Effects in a Simple Model of Educational Production

Bishop, John H.; Woessmann, Ludger - 2002

The paper presents a model of educational production which tries to make sense of recent evidence on effects of institutional arrangements on student performance. In a simple principal-agent framework, students choose their learning effort to maximize their net benefits, while the government...

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Ranking the schools: How quality information affects school choice in the Netherlands

Koning, Pierre; van der Wiel, Karen - 2010

This paper analyzes whether information on high school quality published by a national newspaper affects school choice in the Netherlands. For this purpose, we use both school level and individual student level data. First, we study the causal effect of quality scores on the influx of new high...

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Absolute Risk Aversion and the Returns to Education

Brunello, Giorgio - 2000

Individual absolute risk aversion is measured for a sample of 1373 male household heads, using the 1995 wave of the Survey on the Income and Wealth of Italian households. This measure, conditional on financial and real wealth and household income, is used as an instrument for attained education...

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Be as careful of the books you read as of the company you keep: evidence on peer effects in educational choices

De Giorgi, Giacomo; Pellizzari, Michele; Redaelli, Silvia - 2007

In this paper we investigate whether peers' behavior influences the choice of college major. Using a unique dataset of students at Bocconi University and exploiting the organization of teaching at this institution, we are able to identify the endogenous effect of peers on such decision through a...

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Subjective beliefs and schooling decisions

Belzil, Christian - 2007

This paper considers the estimation of sequential schooling decisions made by agents who are endowed with subjective beliefs about their own ability. I use unique Italian panel data which provide information on i) the curvature of the per-period utility function, ii) schooling decisions, iii)...

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Risk aversion and schooling decisions

Belzil, Christian; Leonardi, Marco - 2007

We develop a non-rational expectation econometric model of sequential schooling decisions. Using unique Italian panel data in which individual differences in attitudes toward risk are measurable (with error), we investigate the effect of risk aversion on the probability of entering higher...

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Intergenerational mobility and schooling decisions in Germany and Italy: the impact of secondary school tracks

Checchi, Daniele; Flabbi, Luca - 2007

, Italy and Germany, to see how the common feature of separate tracks at Secondary School level may produce different impacts …, where the aspiration to go to college is affected not only by the school type but also (in the case of Italy only) by … parental education. We then move to country-specific data sets (ISTAT 2001 for Italy and GSOEP 2001 and 2002 for Germany) to …

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The Bologna process and college enrolment decisions

Cappellari, Lorenzo; Lucifora, Claudio - 2008

We use survey data on cohorts of high school graduates observed before and after the Italian reform of tertiary education implementing the 'Bologna process' to estimate the impact of the reform on the decision to go to college. We find that individuals leaving high school after the reform have a...

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Military conscription and university enrolment: evidence from Italy

Di Pietro, Giorgio - 2009

compulsory military service on university enrolment in Italy using double and triple differences models. The empirical results …

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