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31 March 2026FBK-IRVAPP and the Marco Biagi Department of Economics (DEMB) at the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia (UNIMORE) have signed a memorandum of understanding to develop joint collaborations in the field of public policy analysis and evaluation.More info -
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12 February 2026The researcher will contribute to and expand the institute's research and evaluation related to education policy. The researcher will join the institute’s researchers in building monitoring and evaluation systems to support decision making in education and in carrying out quantitative evaluation studies aimed at assessing the effectiveness of education policies and programs.More info -
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02 February 2026The Italian Econometric Association (SIdE-IEA) and the Institute for the Evaluation of Public Policies (FBK-IRVAPP) are pleased to announce that enrolments are now open for the "Panel Data for Causal Research Designs" course.More info -
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02 February 2026We are pleased to announce the opening of the Fourth Edition of the Call for the Best Paper in Public Policy Evaluation, in conjunction with the course “Panel Data for Causal Research Designs” organised by the Italian Econometric Association (SIdE-IEA) and FBK-IRVAPP.More info
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In Italia, la spesa pubblica ammonta a circa 900 miliardi annui, eppure gli strumenti analitici per valutarne l'efficacia restano sottoutilizzati. Il seminario affronta questa lacuna, partendo da una recente iniziativa del Ministero dell'economia e delle finanze volta a introdurre metodi di valutazione sistematici nelle amministrazioni centrali. L'obiettivo è migliorare la qualità della spesa e l'allocazione delle risorse — anche in sede di legge di bilancio — attraverso una revisione fondata su solida evidenza empirica.More info -
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The Italian Econometric Association (SIdE-IEA) and FBK-IRVAPP are organizing a course on Panel Data for Causal Research Designs in Bertinoro, Italy. Designed for PhD students, researchers, and professionals, it covers panel data models, including Random and Fixed Effects, Two-way Fixed Effects as a bridge to Difference-in-Differences, Staggered and Block Designs, Synthetic Control Methods, and their combination with Difference-in-Differences. The course includes theoretical lectures, hands-on sessions using Stata, and applied econometrics exercises.More info
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2026-03-17An analysis conducted by FBK-IRVAPP in collaboration with ISPAT on a representative sample of microenterprises in Trentino shows an encouraging figure: on average, owners correctly answer 77% of OECD/INFE questions on financial knowledge, well above the Italian average (64%). However, the picture is not uniform, and gaps persist related, for example, to sector and education. -
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2026-01-22Roberto Ricci, President of INVALSI, was the keynote guest at the seminar organized by FBK-IRVAPP to open 2026. He presented the results of the first national survey involving nearly 500 schools across Italy
