intervention of asset building (Percorsi) on high school students' transition to the university. Contrary to most traditional forms … strong conditionality in the use of the benefits. The experiment, called ACHAB (Affording College with the Help of Asset … Building) has been carried out in the province of Torino (Northwest Italy) between 2014 and 2017. For the evaluation purpose …

concentrated among higher and medium-ability students, while lower-ability students receiving financial assistance are discouraged …

We use a reform that was recently implemented in Italy to investigate the effects on academic achievement of more … set out the comparison of similar students undergoing alternative progression rules, and to shed light on whether, and to … across curricular tracks, picturing at best - depending on the data employed - a marginal improvement for students in …

We use a reform that was recently implemented in Italy to investigate the effects on academic achievement of more … set out the comparison of similar students undergoing alternative progression rules, and to shed light on whether, and to … across curricular tracks, picturing at best – depending on the data employed – a marginal improvement for students in …

This paper exploits discontinuities in the assignment of scholarships targeted at low income students in an Italian … University in order to evaluate the effects of monetary incentives on students' academic achievement. Results reveal positive and … sizeable causal effects both in terms of credits and grades. Gender differentials also emerge: male students drive the results …

women. Third, women who work in Italian universities tend to have less citations than men who work in Italy. However, the …

women. Third, women who work in Italian universities tend to have less citations than men who work in Italy. However, the …

effects on students' achievements. We exploit a randomized experiment, which envisaged the presence of an external inspector …We analyze students' cheating behavior during a national evaluation test. We model the mechanisms that trigger cheating … interactions between students and show that, when monitoring is not sufficiently accurate, a social multiplier may magnify the …

all eligible students receive financial aid due to limited resources to generate a treatment and a control group. Using … this partition, we estimate the average treatment effect, i.e. the average effect on low income students, controlling for a … a sizeable effect of grants in reducing dropping out from higher education: around one third of these students would …

all eligible students receive financial aid due to limited resources to generate a treatment and a control group. Using … this partition, we estimate the average treatment effect, i.e. the average effect on low income students, controlling for a … a sizeable effect of grants in reducing dropping out from higher education: around one third of these students would …