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

School vouchers introduced recently in some Italian regions have lowered the cost of private schools. On one side, we …

performance appraisalsystems, monitoring by supervisors, autonomy to organize the work) and individuals’inclination to trust …

We derive a natural definition of responsibility in a formal model where employees care for their career prospects: A … are equilibria where either a single agent or no agent is responsible for a task but joint responsibility never arises …

public school districts in Missouri. We take advantage of the plausibly exogenous variation in pre-negotiated district salary … 3.7, suggesting the presence of significant market power for school districts, especially over more experienced teachers …

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 …

offering at a positive price lower quality than the public school can be an equilibrium. The calibrated parameters for Italy …Motivated by anecdotal as well as econometric evidence from Italy, we ask whether private schools can provide lower … school, we show that, depending on the underlying parameters of the model, a market structure with the private school …

levels over time in Italy. However, focusing on equality of circumstances, we show that there is still a persistent …

volunteers belonging to public, private forprofit and private nonprofit institutions delivering social services in Italy. The …