"Preface. Latent Markov models represent an important class of latent variable models for the analysis of longitudinal data, when the response variables measure common characteristics of interest which are not directly observable. Typically, the response variables are categorical, even if...

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...

I review a class of models for longitudinal data, showing how it may be applied in a meaningful way for the analysis of data collected by the administration of a series of items finalized to the educational or psychological measurement. In this class of models, the unobserved individual...