Tommaso Agasisti

Politecnico di Milano - Department of Management, Economics and Industrial Engineering

Piazza Leonardo da Vinci

Milan, Milan 20133

Italy

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Scholarly Papers (34)

1.

Determinants of College Student Migration in Italy: Empirical Evidence from a Gravity Approach

Number of pages: 11 Posted: 12 Dec 2007
Tommaso Agasisti and Antonio Dal Bianco
Politecnico di Milano - Department of Management, Economics and Industrial Engineering and IRER - Istituto Regionale di Ricerca della Lombardia
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Student mobility, gravity model, university attractiveness

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The Efficiency of Public Spending on Education: An Empirical Comparison of EU Countries

Number of pages: 36 Posted: 20 Jul 2011
Tommaso Agasisti
Politecnico di Milano - Department of Management, Economics and Industrial Engineering
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efficiency in public spending, education

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Performances and Spending Efficiency in Higher Education: A European Comparison

Education Economics, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 47 Posted: 10 Mar 2008 Last Revised: 06 Oct 2009
Tommaso Agasisti
Politecnico di Milano - Department of Management, Economics and Industrial Engineering
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Efficiency analysis, Higher Education, Public Spending, Data Envelopment Analysis

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Comparing Efficiency in a Cross-Country Perspective: The Case of Italian and Spanish State Universities

Higher Education, Vol. 59, No. 1, pp. 85-103
Number of pages: 29 Posted: 19 Oct 2007 Last Revised: 13 Nov 2010
Tommaso Agasisti and Carmen Pérez-Esparrells
Politecnico di Milano - Department of Management, Economics and Industrial Engineering and Universidad Autónoma de Madrid
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Efficiency analyses, Universities, Data Envelopment Analysis, Malmquist indexes, Decentralization

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Heterogeneity and the Evaluation of Efficiency: The Case of Italian Universities

Applied Economics, Vol. 42, No. 11, 2010
Number of pages: 20 Posted: 01 Nov 2006 Last Revised: 13 Nov 2010
Geraint Johnes and Tommaso Agasisti
Lancaster University - Lancaster University Management School and Politecnico di Milano - Department of Management, Economics and Industrial Engineering
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stochastic frontier, random parameter models, costs, higher education

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Reforming the University Sector: Effects on Teaching Efficiency - Evidence from Italy

Higher Education, Vol. 57, No. 4, pp. 477-498, April 2009
Number of pages: 30 Posted: 07 Nov 2006 Last Revised: 06 Oct 2009
Tommaso Agasisti and Antonio Dal Bianco
Politecnico di Milano - Department of Management, Economics and Industrial Engineering and IRER - Istituto Regionale di Ricerca della Lombardia
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teaching efficiency, reform processes, Data Envelopment Analysis, Malmquist index

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Economic Determinants of Participation Rates in University Education

Higher Education Quarterly, Vol. 63, No. 3, 287-307, 2008
Number of pages: 22 Posted: 06 Jun 2008 Last Revised: 06 Oct 2009
Tommaso Agasisti
Politecnico di Milano - Department of Management, Economics and Industrial Engineering
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Lisbon objectives, higher education, financial resources, participation rates

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The Efficiency of Italian Secondary Schools and the Potential Role of Competition; A Data Envelopment Analysis Using OECD-PISA2006 Data

Education Economics, Forthcoming.
Number of pages: 48 Posted: 30 Nov 2009 Last Revised: 13 Nov 2010
Tommaso Agasisti
Politecnico di Milano - Department of Management, Economics and Industrial Engineering
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Schools’ performances, efficiency, competition, Data Envelopment Analysis

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Comparing German and Italian Universities: Convergence or Divergence in the Higher Education Landscape?

Number of pages: 23 Posted: 20 Jul 2011 Last Revised: 12 Aug 2011
Tommaso Agasisti and Carsten Pohl
Politecnico di Milano - Department of Management, Economics and Industrial Engineering and Government of the Federal Republic of Germany - Institute for Employment Research (IAB)
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universities, Germany, Italy, efficiency, data envelopment analysis

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Incentives in Higher Education: Potential Effects of Alternative Formula-Funding Models

Number of pages: 24 Posted: 12 Nov 2008 Last Revised: 02 Mar 2015
Tommaso Agasisti
Politecnico di Milano - Department of Management, Economics and Industrial Engineering
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Higher Education, economic incentives, formula-funding, performances

Grants in Italian University: A Look at the Heterogeneity of their Impact on Students’ Performances

Studies in Higher Education, 41(6), 1106-1132, 2016
Number of pages: 54 Posted: 29 Jul 2013 Last Revised: 26 Apr 2016
Tommaso Agasisti and Samuele Murtinu
Politecnico di Milano - Department of Management, Economics and Industrial Engineering and Utrecht University - School of Economics
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Financial Aid, Propensity Score Matching, Educational Policy Evaluation, Equity

Are We Wasting Public Money? No! The Effects of Grants on Italian University Students’ Performances

IEB Working Paper N. 2013/033
Number of pages: 64 Posted: 16 Oct 2013
Tommaso Agasisti and Samuele Murtinu
Politecnico di Milano - Department of Management, Economics and Industrial Engineering and Utrecht University - School of Economics
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financial aid, propensity score matching

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Effects of Competition in University Systems: Theoretical Reflections and Empirical Evidence from Italy

International Review of Applied Economics, Vol. 23, No. 4, pp. 463-483, 2009
Number of pages: 34 Posted: 16 Jul 2007 Last Revised: 06 Oct 2009
Tommaso Agasisti
Politecnico di Milano - Department of Management, Economics and Industrial Engineering
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universities, market structure, competition, incentives, performance

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Autonomy, Performance And Efficiency: An Empirical Analysis Of Russian Universities 2014-2018

Higher School of Economics Research Paper No. WP BRP 224/EC/2020
Number of pages: 39 Posted: 13 Mar 2020
Tommaso Agasisti and Ekaterina Shibanova
Politecnico di Milano - Department of Management, Economics and Industrial Engineering and National Research University Higher School of Economics (Moscow)
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autonomy, higher education management, composite indicator, efficiency analysis

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Efficiency and Heterogeneity of Public Spending in Education Among Italian Regions

Number of pages: 13 Posted: 20 Jul 2011
Tommaso Agasisti and Piergiacomo Sibiano
Politecnico di Milano - Department of Management, Economics and Industrial Engineering and Polytechnic University of Milan - Department of Management, Economics and Industrial Engineering
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efficiency of public spending, standard costs in education

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Educational Vouchers in Italy: Theory, Design, Effects

Number of pages: 52 Posted: 07 Oct 2009
Tommaso Agasisti
Politecnico di Milano - Department of Management, Economics and Industrial Engineering
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educational vouchers, student achievement, public spending

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The Russian Excellence Initiative for Higher Education: An Econometric Evaluation of Short-term Results

Higher School of Economics Research Paper No. WP BRP 201/EC/2018
Number of pages: 47 Posted: 26 Oct 2018
Politecnico di Milano - Department of Management, Economics and Industrial Engineering, National Research University Higher School of Economics (Moscow), National Research University Higher School of Economics (Moscow) and National Research University Higher School of Economics (Moscow)
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efficiency in higher education; excellence initiative; management of universities; data envelopment analysis; Tobit regression; Malmquist index

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'Perceived' Competition and Performance in Italian Secondary Schools: New Evidence from OECD-PISA 2006

British Educational Research Journal, 38(5), 841-858 (2012).
Number of pages: 40 Posted: 20 Sep 2010 Last Revised: 25 Mar 2013
Tommaso Agasisti and Samuele Murtinu
Politecnico di Milano - Department of Management, Economics and Industrial Engineering and Utrecht University - School of Economics
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School performance, Competition, Propensity Score Matching

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Should We Trust Students' Evaluations? A Study in an Italian University

The FedUni Journal of Higher Education, Vol. 4, No. 1, pp. 56-72, February 2009
Number of pages: 19 Posted: 28 Nov 2008 Last Revised: 06 Oct 2009
Daniel Piana and Tommaso Agasisti
affiliation not provided to SSRN and Politecnico di Milano - Department of Management, Economics and Industrial Engineering
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students' teaching evaluation, universities' policies, accountability

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Cost Structure, Efficiency and Heterogeneity in US Higher Education: An Empirical Analysis

Number of pages: 31 Posted: 04 Mar 2009 Last Revised: 06 Nov 2012
Tommaso Agasisti and Geraint Johnes
Politecnico di Milano - Department of Management, Economics and Industrial Engineering and Lancaster University - Lancaster University Management School
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costs, efficiency, stochastic frontier, latent class, random parameter

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The Effect of ICT on Schools’ Efficiency: Empirical Evidence on 23 European Countries

Number of pages: 22 Posted: 09 Jul 2022
Anna Mergoni, Mara Soncin and Tommaso Agasisti
KU Leuven, affiliation not provided to SSRN and Politecnico di Milano - Department of Management, Economics and Industrial Engineering
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Schools' efficiency, ICT, Data envelopment analysis

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Comparing Efficiency of Public Universities Among European Countries: Different Incentives Lead to Different Performances

Number of pages: 44 Posted: 08 Jan 2014
Tommaso Agasisti and Carla Haelermans
Politecnico di Milano - Department of Management, Economics and Industrial Engineering and Maastricht University - Top Institute for Evidence Based Education Research (TIER)
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Efficiency, frontier models, European higher education policies, EU2020

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The Heterogeneity of the 'Private School Effect' in Italian Primary Education

CESifo Economic Studies 62(1), 126-147, March 2016
Number of pages: 41 Posted: 11 Dec 2012 Last Revised: 09 Mar 2016
Tommaso Agasisti, Samuele Murtinu and Piergiacomo Sibiano
Politecnico di Milano - Department of Management, Economics and Industrial Engineering, Utrecht University - School of Economics and Polytechnic University of Milan - Department of Management, Economics and Industrial Engineering
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Schools’ performance, private schools, Instrumental Variables, heterogeneity, regional policy

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The Causal Impact Of Performance-Based Funding On University Performance: Quasi-Experimental Evidence From A Policy In Russian Higher Education

Higher School of Economics Research Paper No. WP BRP 221/EC/2019
Number of pages: 27 Posted: 09 Dec 2019
Politecnico di Milano - Department of Management, Economics and Industrial Engineering, National Research University Higher School of Economics (Moscow), National Research University Higher School of Economics (Moscow) and National Research University Higher School of Economics (Moscow)
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performance-based funding, higher education funding, policy evaluation, difference-in-differences

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Do Merger Policies Increase University Efficiency? Evidence From A Fuzzy Regression Discontinuity Design

Higher School of Economics Research Paper No. WP BRP 226/EC/2020
Number of pages: 45 Posted: 24 Mar 2020
Tommaso Agasisti, Alexey Egorov and Margarita Maximova
Politecnico di Milano - Department of Management, Economics and Industrial Engineering, National Research University Higher School of Economics (Moscow) and National Research University Higher School of Economics (Moscow)
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Universities, mergers, fuzzy regression discontinuity design, efficiency, DEA, Malmquist index.

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Standard Costs for Italian Primary Schools: A Simulation Through a Cost Function Approach

Number of pages: 59 Posted: 26 Jul 2014
Tommaso Agasisti and Piergiacomo Sibiano
Politecnico di Milano - Department of Management, Economics and Industrial Engineering and CEUR Foundation
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Schools’ efficiency, schools’ performance, school funding

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How Do the Characteristics of the Environment Influence University Efficiency? Evidence from a Conditional Efficiency Approach

Higher School of Economics Research Paper No. WP BRP 238/EC/2020
Number of pages: 21 Posted: 10 Dec 2020
Tommaso Agasisti, Alexey Egorov and Pavel Serebrennikov
Politecnico di Milano - Department of Management, Economics and Industrial Engineering, National Research University Higher School of Economics (Moscow) and National Research University Higher School of Economics (Moscow)
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Universities, conditional efficiency, order-m, DEA, exogenous variables

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The Added Value of More Accurate Predictions for School Rankings

Bank of Italy Temi di Discussione (Working Paper) No. 1209, February 2019
Number of pages: 26 Posted: 06 Aug 2019
Paolo Sestito, Fritz Schiltz, Tommaso Agasisti and K. De Witte
Bank of Italy, KU Leuven, Politecnico di Milano - Department of Management, Economics and Industrial Engineering and University of Leuven (KUL)
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value-added, school rankings, machine learning, Monte Carlo

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Private School Enrollment in an Italian Region after Implementing a Change in the Voucher Policy

Journal of School Choice, 9, 380-406.
Number of pages: 25 Posted: 09 Apr 2015 Last Revised: 09 Mar 2016
Tommaso Agasisti, Gianna Barbieri and Samuele Murtinu
Politecnico di Milano - Department of Management, Economics and Industrial Engineering, Ministry of Education Italy and Utrecht University - School of Economics
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School voucher, private school enrolment, school choice, education policy

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When Need Meets Merit: The Effect of Increasing Merit Requirements in Need-Based Student Aid

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14423
Number of pages: 44 Posted: 12 Jun 2021
Tommaso Agasisti, Massimiliano Bratti and Veronica Minaya
Politecnico di Milano - Department of Management, Economics and Industrial Engineering, Università degli Studi di Milano - DEAS and delete
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As Soon as Possible — the Effectiveness of a Financial Education Program in Italian Schools

Number of pages: 61 Posted: 30 Aug 2024
Politecnico di Milano - Department of Management, Economics and Industrial Engineering, Bank of Italy, Polytechnic of Milan, Bank of Italy and Bank of Italy
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G53, I20, C93

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The Impact of an Online Game-Based Financial Education Course: Multi-Country Experimental Evidence

Number of pages: 46 Posted: 21 Aug 2024
Polytechnic University of Milan, KU Leuven - Faculty of Business and Economics (FEB), Politecnico di Milano - Department of Management, Economics and Industrial Engineering, Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences, Estonian Business School, Comenius University and University of Leuven (KUL)
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Financial Education, RCT, Game-based approach

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Private school enrolment and changes in regional voucher policies: Empirical evidence from an Italian regional plan

Number of pages: 8 Posted: 19 Jul 2021
Tommaso Agasisti and Samuele Murtinu
Politecnico di Milano - Department of Management, Economics and Industrial Engineering and Utrecht University - School of Economics
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Vouchers, educational policy, school choice, enrolment to private schools

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Universities' Efficiency and Regional Economic Short-Run Grownth: Empirical Evidence from Russia

Higher School of Economics Research Paper No. WP BRP 203/EC/2018
Posted: 27 Nov 2018 Last Revised: 25 Mar 2019
Politecnico di Milano - Department of Management, Economics and Industrial Engineering, National Research University Higher School of Economics (Moscow), National Research University Higher School of Economics (Moscow) and National Research University Higher School of Economics (Moscow)

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Regional economic development; efficiency in higher education; knowledge spillovers; economic growth; Russia.

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Exploring the Efficiency of Mexican Universities: Integrating Data Envelopment Analysis and Multidimensional Scaling

Omega - The International Journal of Management Science, Forthcoming
Posted: 19 Oct 2014 Last Revised: 06 May 2016
Marti Sagarra, Cecilio Mar Molinero and Tommaso Agasisti
University of Barcelona - Faculty of Economic Science and Business Studies, University of Kent - Canterbury Campus and Politecnico di Milano - Department of Management, Economics and Industrial Engineering

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Performance evaluation, Benchmarking, Efficiency, Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA), Multidimensional Scaling (MDS), Higher education