Education

2025 10/04/2026

Apart but Connected: Online Tutoring, Cognitive Outcomes, and Soft Skills

by Michela Carlana and Eliana La Ferrara

American Economic Review (2025)

Press coverage: Corriere della Sera, Sole24Ore Scuola, Vita, Avvenire (in Italian), Scientific American, Harvard Gazette, Video summary

Michela Carlana, Eliana La Ferrara

Keywords: Tutoring, COVID-19, Education, Achievement, Aspirations, Socio-emotional skills, Well-being

2025 28/04/2026

Teacher personality and the perceived socioeconomic gap in student outcomes

by Giorgio Brunello, Clementina Croce, Pamela Giustinelli and Lorenzo Rocco

Economics Letters (2025)

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Giorgio Brunello, Clementina Croce, Pamela Giustinelli and Lorenzo Rocco

Keywords: Choice of high school tracks, Teachers' beliefs and personality, Italy

2024 16/04/2026

Human Capital Affects Religious Identity: Causal Evidence from Kenya

by Livia Alfonsi, Michal Bauer, Julie Chytilová and Edward Miguel

Journal of Development Economics (2025)

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Livia Alfonsi, Michal Bauer, Julie Chytilová and Edward Miguel

Keywords: Human capital, Identity, Religion, Kenya

2024 24/04/2026

Long-Term Effects of Preschool Subsidies and Cash Transfers on Child Development: Evidence from Uganda

by Kjetil Bjorvatn, Denise Ferris, Selim Gulesci, Arne Nasgowitz, Vincent Somville and Lore Vandewalle

AEA Papers and Proceedings (2024)

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Kjetil Bjorvatn, Denise Ferris, Selim Gulesci, Arne Nasgowitz, Vincent Somville and Lore Vandewalle

Keywords: Analysis of Education, Education: Government Policy, Welfare, Well-Being, and Poverty: Government Programs, Provision and Effects of Welfare Programs, Fertility, Family Planning, Child Care, Children, Youth, Economic Development: Human Resources, Human Development, Income Distribution, Migration

2024 10/04/2026

Revealing Stereotypes: Evidence from Immigrants in Schools

by Alberto Alesina, Michela Carlana, Eliana La Ferrara and Paolo Pinotti

American Economic Review (2024)

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Press coverage: The UpShot- The New York Times, J-PAL Policy Summay, Video from UBS Webcast

Alberto Alesina, Michela Carlana, Eliana La Ferrara and Paolo Pinotti

Keywords: Implicit stereotypes, Teachers, Immigrants, IAT, Bias in grading

2024 10/04/2026

Thinking about Parents: Gender and Field of Study

by Michela Carlana and Lucia Corno

AEA Papers and Proceedings (2024)

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Michela Carlana and Lucia Corno

Keywords: Gender stereotypes, Parents, Math, Literature

2023 17/04/2026

Beyond the Classroom: Global Competencies and the Path to Higher Education

by Andrea Guariso and Mariapia Mendola

Politica economica, Journal of Economic Policy (2023)

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Andrea Guariso and Mariapia Mendola

Keywords: Education, Socio-cognitive skills, Global Competencies, PISA, Assessment, Europe

2023 10/04/2026

Exacerbated Inequalities: the Learning Loss from COVID-19 in Italy

by Michela Carlana, Eliana La Ferrara and Carolina Lopez

AEA Papers and Proceedings (2023)

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Michela Carlana, Eliana La Ferrara and Carolina Lopez

Keywords: National Government Expenditures and Education, State and Local Government: Health, Education, Welfare, Public Pensions, Health Behavior, Analysis of Education, Returns to Education, Education: Government Policy, Fertility, Family Planning, Child Care, Children, Youth

2023 28/04/2026

Expectations in education

by Pamela Giustinelli

Handbook of Economic Expectations (2023)

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Pamela Giustinelli

Keywords: Education; Expectations, Returns to schooling, Schooling decisions, Subjective probabilities, Survey elicitation, Uncertainty

2022 10/04/2026

Goals and Gaps: Educational Careers of Immigrant Children

by Michela Carlana, Eliana La Ferrara and Paolo Pinotti

Econometrica (2022)

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Press coverage: VoxDev

Michela Carlana, Eliana La Ferrara and Paolo Pinotti

Keywords: Tracking, Career choice, Immigrants, Aspirations, Mentoring

2022 10/04/2026

Hacking Gender Stereotypes: Girls' Participation in Coding Clubs

by Michela Carlana and Margherita Fort

AEA Papers and Proceedings (2022)

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Michela Carlana and Margherita Fort

Keywords: Gender stereotypes, STEM, Randomized Control Trial, Program Evaluation

2022 10/04/2026

Implicit Stereotypes in Teachers' Track Recommendations

by Michela Carlana, Eliana La Ferrara and Paolo Pinotti

AEA Papers and Proceedings (2022)

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Michela Carlana, Eliana La Ferrara and Paolo Pinotti

Keywords: Analysis of Education, Education and Inequality, Economics of Minorities, Races, Indigenous Peoples, and Immigrants, Non-labor Discrimination