[Forum SIS] Avviso di seminario

[Francesca De Battisti (francesca.debattisti)]

Lunedì 1 febbraio 2010 
Fabrizia Mealli (Dipartimento di Statistica di Firenze “Giuseppe Parenti”) terrà il seminario dal titolo:
 
“Evaluating the effects of university grants using regression discontinuity designs”
 
presso l'Aula Seminari del Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche, Aziendali e Statistiche della Facoltà di Scienze Politiche dell'Università degli Studi di Milano (via Conservatorio, 7) 
 
Il seminario è programmato alle ore 11.00. 
 
Summary
The paper evaluates the effects of Italian university grants on student dropout. Applicants meeting some ex-ante eligibility criteria receive a grant if their family economic indicator is below a threshold, so that the grant assignment rule defines a regression-discontinuity-design (RDD). We show how, in a sharp RDD, the presence of eligible and ineligible non participant units may provide: a) additional ways to define specification tests for the continuity assumption at the discontinuity point; b) additional ways to test the performance of alternative non-experimental estimators of programme effects away from the threshold; c) alternative identification assumptions, similar to those on which nonlinear difference-in-difference estimators rely, which allow one to extend estimation results away from the threshold.  Empirical results show that, at the threshold, the grant is an effective tool to prevent students from low income families from dropping out of higher education. However, there is some evidence that the impact of the grant becomes smaller and not significant for poorer students.
 
Joint work with Carla Rampichini
 

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Francesca De Battisti 
Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche, Aziendali e Statistiche 
Sezione Statistica e Matematica 
(III piano, studio n. 29) 
Via Conservatorio 7 
20122 - Milano 
Tel: 02.50321464 
Fax: 02.50321505 
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