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Agasisti, Tommaso; Murtinu, Samuele – Studies in Higher Education, 2016
In this paper, we estimate the effect of receiving financial aid for a cohort of students who enrolled at Politecnico di Milano (Italy) in the year 2007/2008, through a propensity score matching approach. Using administrative data about these students for four years, the impact of the financial aid on several dimensions of academic performance was…
Descriptors: Grants, Higher Education, Academic Achievement, Foreign Countries
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Di Pietro, Giorgio – Education Economics, 2018
This paper uses a standard difference-in-differences approach to examine the effect of the L'Aquila earthquake on the academic performance of the students of the local university. The empirical results indicate that this natural disaster reduced students' probability of graduating on-time and slightly increased students' probability of dropping…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Natural Disasters, College Students, Academic Achievement