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Schivardi, Fabiano; Torrini, Roberto - 2011

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Sectoral cognitive skills, R&D, and productivity : a cross-country cross-sector analysis

Sasso, Simone; Ritzen, Jozef M. M. - 2016

We focus on human capital measured by education outcomes (skills) and establish the relationship between human capital, R&D investments, and productivity across 12 OECD economies and 17 manufacturing and service industries. Much of the recent literature has relied on school attainment rather...

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From the cradle to the grave : the effect of family background on the career path of Italian men

Raitano, Michele; Vona, Francesco - 2015

This paper investigates the influence of parental education on the returns to experience of Italian men using a new longitudinal dataset that contains detailed information on individual working histories. Our favourite panel estimates indicate that an additional year of parental education...

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Benefits of education at the intensive margin : childhood academic performance and adult outcomes among American immigrants

Gevrek, Deniz; Gevrek, Z. Eylem; Guven, Cahit - 2014

Using the Children of the Immigrants Longitudinal Study (CILS), we examine the association between education at the intensive margin and twenty pecuniary and non-pecuniary adult outcomes among first- and second-generation American immigrant youth. Education at the intensive margin is measured by...

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The causal effect of scholarships targeted at low income students on performance : evidence from Italy

Rattini, Veronica - 2014

This paper exploits discontinuities in the assigment 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...

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The legacy of history or the outcome of reforms? : primary education and literacy in Liberal Italy (1871-1911)

Bozzano, Monica; Cappelli, Gabriele - 2019

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Dimensions of illiteracy : a quantitative and comparative approach from Italy, circa 1815

Martinez, Marco - 2022

for pre-unification Italy in 1815. Such figures are compared to all alternative sources available for close years …, including direct and indirect approaches who focused on selected areas of Italy. The new empirical methodology is as important … rates in preindustrial Italy, but only when accompanied by rigorous sampling procedures. Indeed, the proposed empirical …

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