There is a large literature on the influence of institutional characteristics on student academic achievement. In contrast, relatively little research focusses on student time allocation and its effects on student performance. This paper contributes to the literature by investigating the effect...

We analyse peer effects among students of a middle-sized Italian public university. We explain students’ average grade in exams passed during their Second Level Degree course on the basis of their pre-determined measures of abilities, personal characteristics and peer group abilities. Thanks...

Using data for 9, 13 and 15-year-old students from three different datasets (PIRLS-2006, TIMSS-2007 and PISA-2009), we investigate whether the age at school entry affects children school performance at the fourth, eighth and tenth grade levels. Since student's age in a grade may be endogenous,...

Negli ultimi anni, l’Università italiana Š stata investita da un profondo cambiamento che ha comportato un vasto processo di revisione normativa, l'ampliamento e trasformazione della popolazione studentesca e l'intensificazione delle dinamiche concorrenziali tra gli Atenei. Il riconoscimento...

In this paper we investigate the effects of class size on the achievements of a sample of college students enrolled at a middle-sized Italian public university. To estimate the effects of class size we exploit the exogenous variations in class size determined by a maximum class size rule...

In Italia, il sistema universitario ha recentemente sperimentato una significativa trasformazione che ha comportato un vasto processo di revisione normativa di molti dei suoi elementi fondamentali. Il modello 3+2(+3) definisce una nuova strutturazione dei titoli accademici, rispondendo alla...

El objetivo de este trabajo es evaluar el performance de los centros de educación secundaria de la provincia de A Coruña partiendo del concepto de función de producción. A tal fin, se emplea como técnica de estimación de los resultados el Análisis Envolvente de Datos, debido a su...

The empirical literature using large international students’ assessments tends to neglect the role of school composition variables in order not to incur in a misidentification of peer effects. However, this leads to an error of higher logical type since the learning environment crucially...

In this paper we investigate whether remedial courses, designed to fill in the gaps in basic skills, bring about any improvement in undergraduate student attainment. Our analysis is based on a project financed by the Regione Calabria, which provided a number of educational/training activities to...

In this paper we investigate possible differences in student performance depending on the frequency and the type of computer usage both at home and at school of 15-years-old Italian students. Using the PISA 2006 dataset and controlling for a wide range of individual and school characteristics,...