Libera Università Internazionale degli Studi Sociali Guido Carli

About: Libera Università Internazionale degli Studi Sociali Guido Carli is a education organization based out in Rome, Lazio, Italy. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Politics & Monetary policy. The organization has 692 authors who have published 2493 publications receiving 36411 citations. The organization is also known as: Libera Universita Internazionale degli Studi Sociali Guido Carli & Libera Università Internazionale degli Studi Sociali "Guido Carli".

A distributed architecture for supporting e -government cooperative processes

Abstract: In the last few years the e-Government discipline has attracted a growing attention both from practitioners and academics. Although the high number of action plan, projects and conferences spread all over Europe seems sanctioning the achievement of its maturity stage, several organizational and technological issues related with the modernization of service delivery are still far from a comprehensive solution and still require significant efforts. In this paper, the approach followed and the results so far achieved within the Eu-Publi.com research project, are presented. The discussion on the conceptual and design architectures of the Eu-Publi.com distributed, peer-to-peer system is enriched with results about the experimentation conducted on one of its core components.

Friendship network in the classroom: parents bias on peer effects

Abstract: We interview both parents and their children enrolled in six primary schools in the district of Treviso (Italy). We study the structural differences between the children network of friends reported by children and the one elicited asking their parents. We find that the parent-reported network has a bias that is consistent with the following explanation: parents expect peer effects on school achievement to be stronger than what they really are. Thus, parents of low-performing students report their children to be friends of high-performing students. Our numerical simulations indicate that when this bias is combined with a bias on how some children target friends, then there is a multiplier effect on the expected school achievement.