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Policies, skills and earnings : how educational inequality affects earnings inequality

Checchi, Daniele; Werfhorst, Herman van de - In: Socio-economic review 16 (2018) 1, pp. 137-160

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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

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 … of the role of education for overall income inequality. …

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School Vouchers Italian Style

Brunello, Giorgio; Checchi, Daniele - 2021

and supply of private education in the largest Italian region, Lombardy, during the first two years since implementation …

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School Choice and Quality

Checchi, Daniele; Jappelli, Tullio - 2021

structure, income and parents' education. The empirical analysis indicates that the quality of schools is one of the driving …

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Have you read this? : an empirical comparison of the British REF peer review and the Italian VQR bibliometric algorithm

Checchi, Daniele; Ciolfi, Alberto; De Fraja, Gianni; … - 2019

This paper determines the ranking of the publications units of assessment which were submitted to the UK research evaluation carried out in 2014, the REF, which would have been obtained if their submission had been evaluated with the bibliometric algorithm used by the Italian evaluation agency,...

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IC technology and learning : an impact evaluation of cl ssi2.0

Checchi, Daniele; Rettore, Enrico; Girardi, Silvia - 2015

In this paper we present a counterfactual evaluation of the effect of ICT resources at school on student achievements conducted in Italy. In 2009 156 classes at 6th grade were endowed with additional resources earmarked for purchasing ICT equipments only. By selecting an equivalent number of...

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The effect of multigrade classes on cognitive and non-cognitive skills : causal evidence exploiting minimum class size rules in Italy

Checchi, Daniele; De Paola, Maria - 2017

We analyse how schooling in multigrade classes affect the formation of student cognitive and non-cognitive skills. Our identification strategy is based on some institutional features of the Italian educational system establishing a minimum number of students per class. Classes that do not reach...

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Educational policies and income inequality

Checchi, Daniele; Werfhorst, Herman van de - 2014

income distributions. By matching inequality measures on test scores, years of education and labour earnings by country …, birth cohorts and gender, we show that inequality in education (measured both at quality and quantity levels) affect … earnings inequality. We then consider potential endogeneity of educational distributions and we resort to instrumental …

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Where Do I Stand? Assessing Researchers' Beliefs About Their Relative Productivity

Bertoni, Marco - 2020

In 2017 the Italian government established the Fund to Finance Basic Research Activities – FFABR – with the purpose of assigning a 3,000 euros research grant to the most productive applicants among eligible assistant and associate professors. We show that, rather surprisingly, many...

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Selecting or Rewarding Teachers? International Evidence from Primary Schools

Braga, Michela - 2019

Using data from three waves of PIRLS, this paper examines the effect of teacher quality on fourth-grade students' literacy test scores by exploiting variations induced by reforms in teachers' selection and/or reward schemes. We construct an original data set of relevant reforms taking place at...

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