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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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Using a large-scale correspondence study in French- and German-speaking Switzerland, this seminar examines how ethnic and linguistic boundaries shape access to early childcare. Results reveal early-stage gatekeeping driven more by regional institutional contexts than by group familiarity, with broader implications for cumulative disadvantage over the life course.More info -
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How do tax incentives for high-skilled migrants affect income inequality? This paper examines Italy's preferential tax regime (2016–2022) using microsimulation methods to reveal the distributional consequences — across Gini coefficients, top income shares, and tax progressivity — of policies designed to attract mobile talent.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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2026-04-28At the core of this effort is the MEF’s initiative to strengthen the use of empirical evidence in spending decisions. -
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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.
