BREAD Working Paper No. 528, December 2017

Goals and Gaps: Educational Careers of Immigrant Children Michela Carlana, Eliana La Ferrara, Paolo Pinotti Abstract We study the educational choices of children of immigrants in a tracked school system. We first show that immigrant boys in Italy enroll disproportionately into vocational high schools, as opposed to technical and academically-oriented high schools, compared to natives […]

BREAD Working Paper No. 586, February 2021

Apart but Connected: Online Tutoring and Student Outcomes during the COVID-19 Pandemic Michela Carlana, Eliana La Ferrara Abstract In response to the COVID-19 outbreak, the governments of most countries or- dered the closure of schools, potentially exacerbating existing learning gaps. This paper evaluates the effectiveness of an intervention implemented in Italian middle schools that provides […]