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When the Cat Is Near, the Mice Won't Play: The Effect of External Examiners in Italian Schools

Bertoni, Marco; Brunello, Giorgio; Rocco, Lorenzo - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

We use a natural experiment to show that the presence of an external examiner in standardized school tests reduces the proportion of correct answers in monitored classes by 5.5 to 8.5% – depending on the grade and the test – with respect to classes in schools with no external monitor. We...

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When the cat is near, the mice won't play: the effect of external examiners in Italian schools

Bertoni, Marco; Brunello, Giorgio; Rocco, Lorenzo - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2013

We use a natural experiment to show that the presence of an external examiner has both a direct and an indirect negative effect on the performance of monitored classes in standardized educational tests. The direct effect is the difference in the test performance between classes of the same...

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The Returns to Education in Italy: A New Look at the Evidence

Brunello, Giorgio; Comi, Simona; Lucifora, Claudio - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2000

The purpose of this paper is to provide an update of the empirical evidence on the private returns to education in … Italy. First, we show that, whilst returns to education in Italy (based on gross wages) are in line with the European … marginal return to the marginal cost of education - we speculate that either marginal costs are steeper in Italy or that a …

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The College Wage Gap in 10 European Countries: Evidence from Two Cohorts

Brunello, Giorgio; Comi, Simona; Lucifora, Claudio - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2000

We study the recent evolution of the college wage gap with a unique data set that comprises two cohorts and 10 European countries from the early to mid 1980s to the mid to late 1990s. We find evidence of significant cross country differences in the level and dynamics of the gap. There is also...

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School Quality and Family Background in Italy

Brunello, Giorgio; Checchi, Daniele - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2003

We study whether the combined significant reduction in the pupil-teacher ratio and increase in parental education … parental education has had an even stronger impact on attainment. We also find that the positive impact of better school … quality on educational attainment and returns to education has been particularly significant for the individuals born in …

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Selective Schools

Brunello, Giorgio; Giannini, Massimo - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 1999

This paper studies how schooling admission tests affect economic performance in an economy where individuals are endowed with both academic and non academic abilities and both abilities matter for labor productivity. We develop a simple model with selective government held schools, where...

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Are the More Educated Receiving More Training? Evidence from Thailand

Ariga, Kenn; Brunello, Giorgio - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2002

This paper investigates the relationship between education and training provided by the firm, both on the job and off … education and off the job training. We also find that education and training are technical complements, especially in the case …

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Unemployment, Education and Earnings Growth

Brunello, Giorgio - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2001

I use the European Community Household Panel to ask whether unemployment affects the relationship between education and … subsequent earnings growth. show that individuals with more education have more to lose in terms of subsequent earnings growth … from the experience of unemployment. This result partially compensates the fact that more education reduces the incidence …

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Education and Earnings Growth: Evidence from 11 European Countries

Brunello, Giorgio; Comi, Simona - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2000

education over the working life of individuals. We find evidence that employees with tertiary education have steeper experience … profiles than employees with upper secondary or compulsory education. Hence, education provides not only an initial labor … in earnings growth by education are lower in countries with a higher level of corporatism and higher in countries which …

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On the Complementarity between Education and Training in Europe

Brunello, Giorgio - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2001

This paper is an empirical investigation of the complementarity between education and training in 13 European countries … higher among individuals with more education, I find that the relationship between educational attainment and training … Kaitz index. I also find evidence that individuals with more education and limited labor market experience enjoy higher …

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