This paper focuses on the process of evaluation of the external efficiency of higher education, defined as the effect of university education on the long-term income of graduates; in particular we propose the use of human capital as the outcome of interest and a proper methodology to estimate it...

This chapter aims to provide suggestive evidence on how the Lombardy region dealt with the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020 and discuss future challenges for the Lombardy healthcare system. After an introduction to the wide spread of the virus inside the region, we describe the Lombardy health system...

This paper exploits individual-level data from the U.K. Household Longitudinal Study (U.K.HLS), Understanding Society, to investigate how formal and informal caregiving disruptions, due to the U.K. government’s non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPIs) aimed at reducing transmission of the...