Motivated by anecdotal as well as econometric evidence from Italy, we ask whether private schools can provide lower … quality than public schools. Using a stylized model of the education market with sequential entry of a public and a private … offering at a positive price lower quality than the public school can be an equilibrium. The calibrated parameters for Italy …

We use the repeated random assignment of external examiners to school institutes in Italy to investigate whether the …

Motivated by anecdotal as well as econometric evidence from Italy, we ask whether private schools can provide lower … quality than public schools. Using a stylized model of the education market with sequential entry of a public and a private … offering at a positive price lower quality than the public school can be an equilibrium. The calibrated parameters for Italy …

is the first study to be carried out on the effects of private schooling in primary education in Italy. Our analysis uses … between pupils attending public schools and those attending private schools in the most densely populated region of Italy …

structure, income and parents' education. The empirical analysis indicates that the quality of schools is one of the driving …

We study whether the combined significant reduction in the pupil-teacher ratio and increase in parental education … observed in Italy between the end of World War II and the end of the 1980s have had a significant impact on the educational … parental education has had an even stronger impact on attainment. We also find that the positive impact of better school …