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Institutional Reforms and Educational Attainment in Europe: A Long Run Perspective
Braga, Michela; Checchi, Daniele; Meschi, Elena - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
In this paper we analyse the effects of changes in the institutional design of the educational system on school … population and whether various deciles of the education distribution have been differentially affected. We constructed a dataset …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009395442
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Does School Tracking Affect Equality of Opportunity? New International Evidence
Checchi, Daniele; Brunello, Giorgio - Dipartimento di Economia, Management e Metodi … - 2006
attainment and earnings by arguing that the signalling role of formal education – captured by attainment – matters more than …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009324470
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Intergenerational Mobility and Schooling Decisions in Germany and Italy: The Impact of Secondary School Tracks
Checchi, Daniele; Flabbi, Luca - In: Rivista di Politica Economica (2013) 3, pp. 7-57
Intergenerational mobility in education and income is affected by the influence of parents on children’s school choices …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010858739
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Regional disparities and inequality of opportunity: the case of Italy
Checchi, Daniele; Peragine, Vitorocco - 2005
In this paper we provide a new methodology to measure opportunity inequality and to decompose overall inequality in an ethically offensive and an ethically acceptable part. Moreover, we provide some empirical applications of these new evaluation tools: in the first exercise, we compare the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010267686
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Institutional reforms and educational attainment in Europe: A long run perspective
Braga, Michela; Checchi, Daniele; Meschi, Elena - 2011
In this paper we analyse the effects of changes in the institutional design of the educational system on school … population and whether various deciles of the education distribution have been differentially affected. We constructed a dataset …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282181
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School quality and family background in Italy
Brunello, Giorgio; Checchi, Daniele - 2003
We study whether the combined significant reduction in the pupil-teacher ratio and increase in parental education … parental education has had an even stronger impact on attainment. We also find that the positive impact of better school … quality on educational attainment and returns to education has been particularly significant for the individuals born in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282202
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Higher education expansion & labour income inequality in high-income countries: A gender-specific perspective
Sauer, Petra; Van Kerm, Philippe; Checchi, Daniele - 2022
The expansion of higher education since the second half of the 20th century was particularly pronounced among women. In … higher education expansion for labour income inequality has largely treated expansion as gender neutral. With this paper we … inequality to increase tertiary education among women as compared to men. To this end we draw on harmonised data from the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013467167
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Mobility comparisons: does using different measures matter?
Checchi, Daniele; Dardanoni, Valentino - Dipartimento di Economia, Management e Metodi … - 2002
In this paper we review alternative measure of intergenerational mobility, emphasizing the distinction between absolute, relative and ordinal mobility. We then compare the performance of various mobility indices using real data. From Treiman and Ganzeboom (1990) dataset we compare the degree of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005007217
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School Quality and Family Background in Italy
Brunello, Giorgio; Checchi, Daniele - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2003
We study whether the combined significant reduction in the pupil-teacher ratio and increase in parental education … parental education has had an even stronger impact on attainment. We also find that the positive impact of better school … quality on educational attainment and returns to education has been particularly significant for the individuals born in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005762056
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Tenure. An Appraisal of a National Selection Process for Associate Professorship
Checchi, Daniele - In: Giornale degli Economisti 58 (1999) 2, pp. 137-181
This paper presents a case study of the national academic competition for associate professorship which took place in Italy during the academic year 1997-98. The two-stage selection procedure led to the appointment of 44 associate professors of Economics (discipline code P01A – Economia...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005772711