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Silvia has joined FBK-IRVAPP as a junior researcher. Her main research interests include the application of qualitative methods in areas such as inequality, poverty and marginalisation and healthcare policies. Silvia is also concluding her Master’s Degree in Sociology and Social Research, both at Università di Trento.

Francesco holds a Bachelor’s degree in Economics from Sapienza University of Rome and a Master’s degree in Economics and Economic Policy from the University of Bologna. His research interests include programme and policy evaluation, education, and labour market.

Giovanna is an empirical microeconomist and holds a PhD in Economics from the University of Siena. Her research focuses on the evaluation of fiscal policies, with particular attention to households’ occupational and economic conditions, the intergenerational transmission of socioeconomic inequalities in labour markets, and the development of new empirical methodologies for measuring inequalities.

The EVIDALI project (Evidence-informed data literacy for policy and practice) has officially launched, with FBK-IRVAPP participating as a key partner in this ambitious European initiative addressing the critical need for data literacy in education across the EU.

The study, recently published in Educational Researcher, involved over a thousand children who took part in the "Educational Archipelago" project, promoted by Save the Children and the Agnelli Foundation in nine Italian cities.

Il questionario è finalizzato a raccogliere informazioni sull’interesse verso l’uso delle evidenze scientifiche nella progettazione di politiche pubbliche e programmi di intervento, nonché sulle priorità tematiche degli enti pubblici. I dati raccolti saranno utilizzati per calibrare la piattaforma sulle reali esigenze degli utenti finali.

The ideal candidate has a solid understanding of the main methodological approaches used in the quantitative analysis of public policies and programs and is motivated to conduct experimental or quasi-experimental evaluation research across different policy areas.

We are very happy to welcome Clementina Crocè, who will be visiting FBK-IRVAPP from July to December 2025. Clementina is currently a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Padua, and she holds a PhD in Development Economics.

Felix Rusche, Economics PhD student from the University of Mannheim, has won the Best Paper Award 2025 with his study "Broadcasting Change: India's Community Radio Policy and Women's Empowerment", which analyzes the impact of community radio on women's empowerment in India.

The 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.

We are pleased to announce the opening of the Third 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.

We are very happy to welcome Chiara Lari, who will be visiting FBK-IRVAPP for two months. Chiara is a researcher at Behavia – Behavioral Public Policy and Economics GmbH. She is visiting FBK-IRVAPP from January to February 2025.