@article{447172a8339b4aadbb5912743f4df65a,
title = "Time to degree: Students' abilities, university characteristics or something else? evidence from Italy",
abstract = "We use a representative sample of Italian graduates drawn from the Consorzio AlmaLaurea to assess the impact of individual and family characteristics, university inputs and the labour market on the time taken to attain a degree. Our estimates highlight that all these dimensions drive the outcome analysed. Weak labour market prospects contribute particularly to length time to degree. Our results suggest that a comprehensive policy intervention is needed to increase the number of students graduating within the minimum period.",
keywords = "Labour market, Tertiary education, Time to degree",
author = "Carmen Aina and Eliana Baici and Giorgia Casalone",
note = "Funding Information: We are grateful to Consorzio AlmaLaurea for their data set and assistance. We acknowledge financial support from the Fondazione Alfieri CRT and PRIN-2007. Opinions, conclusions or recommendations in this paper are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the Consorzio AlmaLaurea and of the Fondazione Alfieri-CRT. We thank participants in SIEP (2009), SMYE (2009), AIEL (2009), IWAEE (2010), AEDE (2010) and a seminar at the Turin University. Individual thanks for useful comments are due to Gilberto Antonelli, Giuseppe Bertola, Massimiliano Bratti, Andrea Cammelli, Furio Camillo, Arnaud Chevalier, Damon Clark, Angelo di Francia, Giorgio Di Pietro, Ross Finnie, Aldo Geuna, Paolo Ghinetti, Aldo Goia, Gian Piero Mignoli and Simone Moriconi. The authors also gratefully acknowledge the comments of two anonymous referees. The usual disclaimers apply.",
year = "2011",
month = jul,
doi = "10.1080/09645292.2011.585016",
language = "English",
volume = "19",
pages = "311--325",
journal = "Education Economics",
issn = "0964-5292",
publisher = "Routledge",
number = "3",
}