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Teaching, Research and Academic Careers

An Analysis of the Interrelations and Impacts

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Editors:
  1. Daniele Checchi

    1. Department of Economics, University of Milan, Milan, Italy

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  2. Tullio Jappelli

    1. Department of Economics and Statistics, University of Naples Federico II, Napoli, Italy

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  3. Antonio Uricchio

    1. ANVUR and University of Bari, Bari, Italy

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  • Provides an integrated approach to the evaluation of research and teaching in academic institutions
  • Compares and contrasts the Italian model of assessment with other European models
  • Considers alternative strategies to combine research activity and its impact on the quality of teaching
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Table of contents (11 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-vi
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  2. Introduction

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Introduction

      • Daniele Checchi, Tullio Jappelli, Antonio Uricchio
      Pages 3-13Open Access
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    3. Governance Reforms in Comparative Perspective and Their Path in the Italian Case

      • Giliberto Capano
      Pages 15-35Open Access
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  3. Teaching and Students’ Careers in Italy

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 37-37
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    2. Do Financial Conditions Play a Role in University Dropout? New Evidence from Administrative Data

      • Dalit Contini, Roberto Zotti
      Pages 39-70Open Access
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    3. Drop-Out Decisions in a Cohort of Italian Universities

      • Gianfranco Atzeni, Luca G. Deidda, Marco Delogu, Dimitri Paolini
      Pages 71-103Open Access
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  4. Recruiting and Academic Careers

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 105-105
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    2. Is Entering Italian Academia Getting Harder?

      • Daniele Checchi, Tindaro Cicero
      Pages 107-134Open Access
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    3. Academic Careers and Fertility Decisions

      • Maria De Paola, Roberto Nisticò, Vincenzo Scoppa
      Pages 135-161Open Access
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  5. Conformism in Research

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 135-135
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    2. Social Network Tools for the Evaluation of Individual and Group Scientific Performance

      • Domenico De Stefano, Luka Kronegger, Valerio Leone Sciabolazza, Maria Prosperina Vitale, Susanna Zaccarin
      Pages 165-189Open Access
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    3. Topic-Driven Detection and Analysis of Scholarly Data

      • Alfio Ferrara, Corinna Ghirelli, Stefano Montanelli, Eugenio Petrovich, Silvia Salini, Stefano Verzillo
      Pages 191-221Open Access
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  6. Research Quality and Impact on Teaching

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 191-191
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    2. The Relationship Between Teaching and Research in the Italian University System

      • Maria Rosaria Carillo, Alessandro Sapio, Tiziana Venittelli
      Pages 225-265Open Access
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    3. Degree-Level Determinants of University Student Performance

      • Massimiliano Bratti, Giovanni Barbato, Daniele Biancardi, Chiara Conti, Matteo Turri
      Pages 267-318Open Access
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    4. Teaching Efficiency of Italian Universities: A Conditional Frontier Analysis

      • Camilla Mastromarco, Pierluigi Toma, Cinzia Daraio
      Pages 319-358Open Access
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About this book

This open access book evaluates research quality, quality of teaching and the relationship between the two through sound statistical methods, and in a comparative perspective with other European countries. In so doing, it covers an increasingly important topic for universities that affects university funding. It discusses whether university evaluation should be limited to a single factor or consider multiple dimensions of research, since academic careers, teaching and awarding degrees are intertwined. The chapters included in the book evaluate teaching and research, also taking the gender dimension into account, in order to understand where and when gender discrimination occurs in assessment. Divided into five sections, the book analyses the administrative data on the determinants of career completion of university students; increasing precariousness of academic careers, especially of young researchers; methods designed to assess research productivity when co-authorship and team production are becoming the standard practice; and interrelations between students’ achievements and teachers’ careers driven by research assessment. It brings together contributions from a large group of economists, statisticians and social scientists working under a project sponsored by ANVUR, the Italian agency for the evaluation of teaching and research of academic institutions. From an international perspective, the findings in this book are particularly interesting because despite low tuition costs, tertiary education in Italy has relatively low enrolment rates and even lower completion rates compared to those in other European and American countries.


This book is of interest to researchers of the sociology of education, education policy, public administration, economics and statistics of education, and to administrators and policy makers working in the area of higher education.    


Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Economics, University of Milan, Milan, Italy

    Daniele Checchi

  • Department of Economics and Statistics, University of Naples Federico II, Napoli, Italy

    Tullio Jappelli

  • ANVUR and University of Bari, Bari, Italy

    Antonio Uricchio

About the editors

Daniele Checchi is Professor of Economics at the University of Milan and the Istituto Nazionale della Previdenza Sociale (INPS).

Tullio Jappelli is Professor of Economics, University of Naples Federico II.


Antonio Felice Uricchio is a jurist and was rector of the University of Bari Aldo Moro till 2019. He is President of the Italian National Agency for the Evaluation of Universities and Research Institutes (ANVUR). 

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Teaching, Research and Academic Careers

  • Book Subtitle: An Analysis of the Interrelations and Impacts

  • Editors: Daniele Checchi, Tullio Jappelli, Antonio Uricchio

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-07438-7

  • Publisher: Springer Cham

  • eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2022

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-07437-0Published: 13 August 2022

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-07440-0Published: 13 August 2022

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-07438-7Published: 12 August 2022

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: VI, 358

  • Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Sociology of Education, Education, general, Higher Education, Education Economics, Education Policy

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