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Earlier research on the role of universities in fostering entrepreneurial economic development almost exclusively covers spin-offs by faculty and staff. In contrast, we provide general evidence from the U.S. showing that the gross flow of science and engineering university graduates’ start-ups...
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In this paper we analyse whether the characteristics of university teaching staff matter with regards students' performance and interest in the discipline. We use data on about one thousand students enrolled on the first level degree course in Business and Economics at a medium sized Italian...
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change is ongoing in Italy, that is, the decentralization of competencies from the State to the Regions (federalism). Some … Italy (the Regions in the North outperform their counterparts in the South). When looking at the Regional socio …
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di Milano (Italy) in the year 2007/08, through a Propensity Score Matching approach. Using administrative data about …
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di Milano (Italy) in the year 2007/08, through a Propensity Score Matching approach. Using administrative data about …
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In Italy, the process of devolving more powers on educational matters to Regions and schools poses some relevant policy …
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In 2007 the Italian central government started a program by transferring funds to regional governments to develop both private and public early childcare services. Exploiting the different timing of program implementation across regions, we evaluate its effectiveness in boosting the public...
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In 2000, the Lombardy Regional government introduced, for the first time in Italy, a voucher plan to stimulate families …. Despite the high political attention to this theme in Italy, there is almost no economic research on this theme. The voucher … the characteristics of voucher plans in Italy, by means of an appropriate theoretical framework to identify the …
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