-Poisson Maximum Likelihood with High Dimensional Fixed Effects models for bilateral data on the Italian students' flows is used … destinations that, instead, exhibit lower corruption. Moreover, sensitivity of the prospective tertiary students to corruption … Mezzogiorno to the North of Italy, suggests that the push and pull effects of corruption stir up the endurance of the well …

50 percent admission quota for historically disadvantaged students. I study the implications of this regulation on the … academic performance of non-targeted students. Identification rests on the use of pre-law crosswise variation in specially … enrollment of targeted students due to the affirmative action caused an increase in the variance of academic ability within …