School vouchers introduced recently in some Italian regions have lowered the cost of private schools. On one side, we … and supply of private education in the largest Italian region, Lombardy, during the first two years since implementation …

better measures of schools' contributions to student achievement. We show that while cross-sectional measures of school value … is a high year-to-year attrition in the student population, longitudinal measures of school value added are very robust … tends to be higher in highly "selective" (i.e. high drop-out) school environments. …

We discuss how a schooling system's structure may imply that private school enrolment leads to worse subsequent … performance in further education or in the labour market, and we seek evidence of such phenomena in Italian data. If students … Italian secondary school graduates, interviewed 3 year after graduation. In these data, the impact of observable talent …

School vouchers introduced recently in some Italian regions have lowered the cost of private schools. On one side, we … and supply of private education in the largest Italian region, Lombardy, during the first two years since implementation …