This paper investigates whether or not research quality is significantly associated with a university's ability to attract students from other provinces in Italy. First university enrolments of students over the period 2003-2011 are regressed on several universities' research quality indicators...

International student mobility is the most recognised element of Erasmus+, a major EU policy. Not enough is known about the causal effect of studying abroad on labour market outcomes. This is because most of the existing studies dismiss selection bias: the different composition of students...

"Nach Darstellung des Freizügigkeitsbegriffs und der gesetzlichen Bestimmungen war es Ziel der Untersuchung festzustellen, ob sich die stufenweise Verwirklichung der Freizügigkeit der Arbeitskräfte auf die Höhe der Wanderungen zwischen den EGStaaten ausgewirkt hat. Aufgrund der vorliegenden...

In response to the two waves of Covid-19 in 2020, the Italian government implemented a general lockdown in March, but geographically targeted policies during fall. We exploit this natural experiment to compare the effects of the two policies in a difference-in-differences design, leveraging a...