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Nell’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.

Federica 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.

His 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.

FBK-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.

The 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.

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 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.

Il corso illustrerà attraverso esempi concreti l’applicazione di diversi metodi (sperimentali, quasi-sperimentali, qualitativi) per la valutazione delle politiche pubbliche. In particolare, si focalizzerà sulle competenze necessarie per comprendere e utilizzare i risultati delle valutazioni d’impatto, nonché sui presupposti organizzativi che rendono una politica pubblica effettivamente valutabile.

Nadiia has strong expertise in quantitative methods, including counterfactual evaluation methods and survey design and analysis, as well as the integration of administrative, geographic, and satellite data. Her research interests include institutions and economic development; local governance and place-based policies; and firm-level innovation, including green innovation.

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 at University of 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.