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Vettori, Giulia; Vezzani, Claudio; Pinto, Giuliana; Bigozzi, Lucia – Higher Education Research and Development, 2021
This study focused on the transition from upper-secondary school to university. Specifically, it examined whether prior academic achievements and conceptions of learning at the time of completion of upper-secondary school predicted short- and long-term university success (grades at the bachelor's and master's levels). A total of 171 psychology…
Descriptors: Prior Learning, Academic Achievement, Grades (Scholastic), High School Students
Bonfa, Antonella; Freddano, Michela – Online Submission, 2012
The article analyses the gender effects on student achievement at University of Genova and it is a part of the research performed by the University of Genova called "Benchmarks interfaculty students: Development of a gender perspective to find strategies to understand what leads students to success in their studies", financed by the…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Foreign Countries, Data Analysis, Gender Differences
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Mocetti, Sauro – Education Economics, 2012
The aim of this paper is to analyze the selection process at work before and after compulsory schooling by assessing the determinants of school failures, dropouts, and upper secondary school decisions of young Italians. The data-set is built combining individual data by the Labor Force Survey and aggregate data on local labor markets and school…
Descriptors: School Choice, Dropouts, Family Characteristics, Public Education
Bassanini, Andrea; Duval, Romain – OECD Publishing (NJ1), 2006
This paper explores the impact of policies and institutions on employment and unemployment of OECD countries in the past decades. Reduced-form unemployment equations, consistent with standard wage setting/price-setting models, are estimated using cross-country/time-series data from 21 OECD countries over the period 1982-2003. In the…
Descriptors: Unemployment, Macroeconomics, Employment Patterns, Labor Market