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The Impact of Higher Education Supply on Schooling: Evidence from Italy’s University Devolution
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- Massimiliano Bratti (ECASS visitor, DEAS Universit‡ degli Studi di Milano) (joint with Daniele Checchi and Guido de Blasio)
This paper studies the causal effect of higher education supply on schooling
by exploiting a policy experiment – Italy’s university devolution reform –
that allowed higher education institutions to offer a higher variety of
degrees and open new branches in neighbouring provinces. We find evidence
that supply expansion had a positive effect on both the likelihood of
obtaining a university degree and that of enrolling in higher education. Our
analysis suggests that the effect of supply was mainly due to an increase in
the variety of courses rather than to the diffusion of branches.