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10 June 2026Nell’ambito dell’Azione 8 del Piano nazionale per la famiglia 2025-2027 (PNF), il Dipartimento per le politiche della famiglia della Presidenza del Consiglio dei ministri si avvale dell’Istituto per la ricerca valutativa sulle politiche pubbliche della Fondazione Bruno Kessler (FBK-IRVAPP) per la realizzazione di una rilevazione censuaria sulle politiche e i servizi attivi nei comuni italiani a sostegno della natalità e del benessere delle famiglie.More info -
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23 May 2026Federica Meluzzi, researcher at Bocconi University in Milan, is the winner of the 2026 FBK-IRVAPP “Beniamino Andreatta” Award for the best study on public policy evaluation. The ceremony took place at Fondazione Bruno Kessler in Trento and featured Enrico Letta, President of AREL – Agency for Research and Legislation, and Romano Prodi, President of Fondazione per la Collaborazione tra i Popoli.More info -
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21 May 2026His research focuses on social mobility, opportunity structures, sociology of education, and causal methods. He specializes in quantitative methodologies and causal inference, particularly in the study of gender and class differences in educational outcomes and over the life course.More info -
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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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This seminar proposes a new manipulation test for regression discontinuity designs based on Benford's Law. Since manipulation often creates asymmetry in the running variable's density near the cutoff, the authors use Benford's Law—well known in fraud detection—to detect it. Unlike McCrary-type tests, this approach removes researcher-chosen parameters, using predetermined thresholds from Nigrini (2012) instead. A new bandwidth-selection method and probability-based thresholds extend Benford's Law beyond digit analysis, with empirical examples included.More info
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2026-08-13The results of a scientific study focusing on the Italian academic community have been published in PLOS ONE. Women face greater obstacles because they experience longer periods of job insecurity than men -
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2026-08-03From digital health to mountain rescue, combating online hate, technology transfer, and the new Hydrogen Hub, FBK research was once again featured prominently in national and local media throughout July
