Universities as nail factories? An evaluation of the Italian public funding of higher education

Livio Ferrante (), Simona Monteleone () and Francesco Reito ()
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Livio Ferrante: Department of Economics and Business - University of Catania
Simona Monteleone: Department of Science of Education - University of Catania
Francesco Reito: Department of Economics and Business - University of Catania

Economics Bulletin, 2017, vol. 37, issue 3, 1490-1495

Abstract: We use data on graduates from public Italian universities and show that socio-economic factors, external to the control of the university management, can play a crucial role in determining the performance of students in terms of study completion time. We argue that the recent reform of the Italian public funding policy, which rewards universities for the number of students who complete their studies on time, can have perverse effects on the quality of undergraduate education.

Keywords: Italy; university; reform; performance; funding system; moral-hazard; quality; efficiency (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C1 I2 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017-07-02
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