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Bertola, Giuseppe; Checchi, Daniele; Oppedisano, Veruska - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007

performance in further education or in the labour market, and we seek evidence of such phenomena in Italian data. If students … public schools than for those who choose to pay for private education. …

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School Quality and Family Background in Italy

Brunello, Giorgio; Checchi, Daniele - 2003

We study if the combined significant reduction in the pupil-teacher ratio and increase in parental education observed … is positively correlated with higher educational attainment, but that the overall improvement of parental education has … attainment and returns to education has been particularly significant for individuals born in regions and cohorts with poorer …

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Re-testing PISA Students One Year Later: On School Value Added Estimation Using OECD-PISA

Bratti, Massimiliano; Checchi, Daniele - 2013

Thanks to the effort of two local educational authorities, in two regions of North Italy (Valle d'Aosta and the autonomous province of Trento) the PISA 2009 test was re-administered to the same students one year later. This paper is the first to analyse in the OECD-PISA context the potential...

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Selecting or Rewarding Teachers? International Evidence from Primary Schools

Braga, Michela; Checchi, Daniele; Garrouste, Christelle; … - 2019

Using data from three waves of PIRLS, this paper examines the effect of teacher quality on fourth-grade students' literacy test scores by exploiting variations induced by reforms in teachers' selection and/or reward schemes. We construct an original data set of relevant reforms taking place at...

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Should you compete or cooperate with your schoolmates?

Bratti, Massimiliano; Checchi, Daniele; Filippin, Antonio - 2008

Building upon some education studies finding that cooperative behaviour in class yields better achievements among …

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Private school quality in Italy

Bertola, Giuseppe; Checchi, Daniele; Oppedisano, Veruska - 2007

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The effects of schooling on cognitive skills: Evidence from education expansions

Cappellari, Lorenzo; Checchi, Daniele; Ovidi, Marco - 2022

We quantify the causal effect of schooling on cognitive skills across 21 countries and the full distribution of working-age individuals. We exploit exogenous variation in educational attainment induced by a broad set of institutional reforms affecting different cohorts of individuals in...

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The Effects of Schooling on Cognitive Skills: Evidence from Education Expansions

Cappellari, Lorenzo; Checchi, Daniele; Ovidi, Marco - 2023

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Publish or Perish? Incentives and Careers in Italian Academia

Checchi, Daniele; De Fraja, Gianni; Verzillo, Stefano - 2014

We derive a theoretical model of effort in the presence of career concern based on the multi-unit all-pay auction, and closely inspired by the Italian academic market. In this model, the number of applicants, the number of new posts, and the relative importance of the determinants of promotion...

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Skilled or educated? Educational reforms, human capital and earnings

Cappellari, Lorenzo; Castelnovo, Paolo; Checchi, Daniele; … - 2016

We use OECD-PIAAC data to estimate the earnings effects of both years of education and of numerical skills. Our … education has the strongest earnings effect. A one standard deviation increase in years of education raises earnings by almost … 22 percentage points (corresponding to a return to education above 7 percentage points), which compares with a lower …

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