Academic Drop-Out and the Great Recession

Adamopoulou, Effrosyni; Tanzi, Giulia Martina

doi:10.1086/690650

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“…As regards the other possible determinants of dropout, our results are in line with the findings of other studies (Adamopoulou and Tanzi (2017); Di Pietro (2004)): females, students from licei, those with better high school grades, out-of-site students and those living in the North are less likely to dropout (Table 4).…”

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The Effect of Grants on University Drop-Out Rates: Evidence on the Italian Case

2018

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Standard-Nutzungsbedingungen:Die Dokumente auf EconStor dürfen zu eigenen wissenschaftlichen Zwecken und zum Privatgebrauch gespeichert und kopiert werden.Sie dürfen die Dokumente nicht für öffentliche oder kommerzielle Zwecke vervielfältigen, öffentlich ausstellen, öffentlich zugänglich machen, vertreiben oder anderweitig nutzen.Sofern die Verfasser die Dokumente unter Open-Content-Lizenzen (insbesondere CC-Lizenzen) zur Verfügung gestellt haben sollten, gelten abweichend von diesen Nutzungsbedingungen die in der dort genannten Lizenz gewährten Nutzungsrechte.In this paper we evaluate the impact of need-based grants on university drop-out rates in the first year of enrollment, using student-level administrative data from all Italian universities in the period 2003-2013. We exploit the fact that not all eligible students receive financial aid due to limited resources to generate a treatment and a control group. Using this partition, we estimate the average treatment effect, i.e. the average effect on low income students, controlling for a set of observable characteristics by running regressions on blocks defined on the propensity score. Results point towards a sizeable effect of grants in reducing dropping out from higher education: around one third of these students would have left university in the first year in absence of the grants. This evidence is robust to a variety of specifications and sample selection criteria. JEL Classification:I22, I23, C21, C35

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The Effect of Grants on University Drop-Out Rates: Evidence on the Italian Case

2018

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“…S iut is a binary treatment status denoting recipients of a grant: this dummy variable takes the value 1 if the student received a grant, and 0 if the student did not receive it despite being eligible for. In line with other studies (Adamopoulou and Tanzi (2017); Di Pietro (2004)), X iut are individual characteristics possibly relevant for dropout rates, namely gender, nationality, area of residence (North, Centre, South), a dummy for studying in a macro area different from the area of residence, high school type and grade, and a dummy for the local urban labour system of residence (as a proxy for the economic status of the home town; see Table 2).…”

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The Effect of Grants on University Dropout Rates: Evidence from the Italian Case

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Tanzi

2020

Journal of Human Capital

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“…This result can be explained by the tendency of Italian students to remain at the university in the presence of job scarcity; a choice that is also determined by the relatively low (direct) costs of Italian public universities. Similarly, Adamopoulou and Tanzi (2017) find that the recent recession, by lowering the opportunity cost of university education, has reduced the risk of withdrawal for Italian students.…”

Section: Labor Market Conditionsmentioning

confidence: 88%