Michela Braga

TL;DR: In this article, the authors compare measures of teacher effectiveness with the students' evaluations for the same teachers using administrative data from Bocconi University and find that teacher quality matters substantially and that their measure of effectiveness is negatively correlated with the student's evaluations of professors.

TL;DR: This article examined whether inequality in incomes, wealth, and education have been widening in a consistent fashion across 30 rich nations over the past 30 years, examining what has actually been happening to these inequalities and investigating how this can be related to social and political outcomes such as poverty, family structures, health inequalities, crime, political participation, and attitudes and values.

TL;DR: Braga et al. as discussed by the authors studied the effects of educational reforms on school attainment and found support for the idea that left-wing parties support reforms that are inclusive, while rightwing parties prefer selective ones, by characterizing each group of reforms for their impact on mean years of education, educational inequality and intergenerational persistence.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigate whether the gender of elected politicians affects political outcomes at the municipal level, using data from 1991 to 2009, using an institutional exogenous change: a gender quota in the candidacy list enforced only in a subsample of municipalities and for a short period of time.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors provide an overview of the employment situation of young and older workers in the EU countries, setting out the most recent developments during the crisis and dealing with policies implemented to promote the employment of both groups.