Eliana Baici
Author's titles
Heterogeneous Returns to Education in Italy
digital
Year:
2020
The estimation of the return from an additional education unit is subject to the ‘‘ability bias’’, responsible for the ‘‘endogeneity’’ of education to wages, and the ‘‘return bias’’, induced by self-selection into education levels based on individual-specific unobservable gains. We use a control functions estimator that, differently to standard instrumental variables, can account for both selection mechanisms. It adds two corrections terms to the wage equation, one for each selectivity source...
Lemmings in the Crowd: Success and Failure of Crowdfunding
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digital
Year:
2017
This paper investigates the determinants of success and failure of crowdfunding. We have drawn a random sample of 120 crowdfunding initiatives from the crowdfunding platforms Kickstarter and Indiegogo. We extracted relevant characteristics of the project and tracked their performance over a 30 day period. Using probit models, GLS estimators and dynamic panel methods, we estimated success probabilities...
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To Stay or to Move? Freshmen and University Accessibility in Italy
digital
Year:
2012
ABSTRACT
The paper analyses the effects of the number of university degree courses available in the province
of residence on the probability of studying in that province rather than moving to a different one.
The supply of degree courses outside the province of residence is weighted by a spatial matrix
where the distance between the province of residence and any other province is imputed in minutes.
The results confirm that the probability of enrolling in a faculty located in the same province
of residence is positively correlated to the number of courses available. In particular, the probability
of enrolling at university in the province of residence is higher for the departments where the
attendance is compulsory (i.e. Engineering). The enrolment behaviour of freshmen differs according
to gender, with females more sensitive to the supply of local degree courses.
KEYWORDS: freshmen, university accessibility, number of degree courses, spatial distance.
JEL Classification: I23.
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