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Daniele Checchi

Daniele Checchi

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Economics and Finance

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46
Citations
9263
World Ranking
1665
National Ranking
38

Overview

Daniele Checchi is affiliated with the University of Milan in Italy and has contributed extensively to the field of social sciences, focusing primarily on economics and econometrics, as well as sociology and political science.

Their research spans several subfields, including political science and international relations, education, and safety research. Key topics addressed in their work include intergenerational and educational inequality studies, economic policies and impacts, income, poverty, and inequality, labor market dynamics and wage inequality, Italy's economic history and contemporary issues, school choice and performance, and social policy and reform studies.

Checchi has published in multiple venues, with frequent contributions to the SSRN Electronic Journal and Harvard Dataverse, and has also appeared in Poster presentations, Contemporary Educational Psychology, and The Journal of Economic Inequality.

Recent papers by Daniele Checchi include:

  • "Academic self-concept change in junior high school students and relationships with academic achievement" (2022, Contemporary Educational Psychology)
  • "Incentives and Careers in Academia: Theory and Empirical Analysis" (2020, The Review of Economics and Statistics)
  • "Convergence or polarisation? The impact of research assessment exercises in the Italian case" (2020, Scientometrics)
  • "Long-term evolution of inequality of opportunity: Educated parents still matter" (2023, The Journal of Economic Inequality)
  • "Merit Pay for Schoolteachers in Italy, 2015-2016: A New Regime of Education Accountability?" (2021, Comparative Education Review)

Collaborations have been an important aspect of Checchi's work. Frequent co-authors include:

  • Gianni De Fraja
  • Stefano Verzillo
  • Lorenzo Cappellari
  • Marco Ovidi
  • Andrea Di Lorenzo

The research focuses on empirical analysis and theoretical frameworks addressing economic and educational inequalities, especially in the context of Italian academia and social policies. The work reflects a strong interest in analyzing structural factors influencing labor markets, educational outcomes, and policy impacts over time.

Best Publications

  • Does school tracking affect equality of opportunity? New international evidence

    Giorgio Brunello;Daniele Checchi

  • Inequality of opportunity in Italy

    Daniele Checchi;Vito Peragine

  • The Economics of Education: Human Capital, Family Background and Inequality

    Daniele Checchi

  • More equal but less mobile? Education financing and intergenerational mobility in Italy and in the US

    Daniele Checchi;Andrea Ichino;Aldo Rustichini

  • The role of unions in the twenty-first century: a report for the Fondazione Rodolfo Debenedetti

    T. Boeri;A. Brugiavini;L. Calmfors;A.L. Booth

  • Does the Expansion of Higher Education Increase the Equality of Educational Opportunities? Evidence from Italy

    Massimiliano Bratti;Daniele Checchi;Guido de Blasio

  • Unions and labour market institutions in Europe

    Daniele Checchi;Claudio Lucifora

  • Intergenerational Mobility and Schooling Decisions in Germany and Italy: The Impact of Secondary School Tracks

    Daniele Checchi;Daniele Checchi;Luca Flabbi;Luca Flabbi;Luca Flabbi

  • LABOUR MARKET INSTITUTIONS AND THE PERSONAL DISTRIBUTION OF INCOME IN THE OECD

    Daniele Checchi;Cecilia García-Peñalosa

  • Geographical differences in Italian students' mathematical competencies: Evidence from Pisa 2003

    Massimiliano Bratti;Daniele Checchi;Antonio Filippin

  • Changing inequalities and societal impacts in rich countries : thirty countries' experiences

    G. Ballarino;M. Braga;M. Bratti;D. Checchi

  • School quality and family background in Italy

    Giorgio Brunello;Daniele Checchi

  • Pattern Persistence in European Trade Union Density - A longitudinal analysis 1950-1996

    Daniele Checchi;Jelle Visser

  • ADJUSTING LABOR DEMAND: MULTINATIONAL VERSUS NATIONAL FIRMS: A CROSS-EUROPEAN ANALYSIS

    Giorgio Barba Navaretti;Daniele Checchi;Alessandro Turrini

  • Regional Disparities and Inequality of Opportunity: The Case of Italy

    Daniele Checchi;Vito Peragine

  • Labour market institutions and income inequality

    Daniele Checchi;Cecilia García-Peñalosa

  • Intergenerational persistence of educational attainment in Italy

    Daniele Checchi;Carlo V. Fiorio;Marco Leonardi

  • Labour Market Institutions and Income Inequality

    Cecilia Garcia-Penalosa;Daniele Checchi

  • Fair and unfair income inequalities in Europe

    Daniele Checchi;Vito Peragine;Laura Serlenga

  • Does educational achievement help to explain income inequality

    Daniele Checchi

Frequent Co-Authors

Jelle Visser
Jelle Visser University of Amsterdam
Giuseppe Bertola
Giuseppe Bertola University of Turin
Giorgio Brunello
Giorgio Brunello University of Padua
Alison L. Booth
Alison L. Booth Australian National University
Lars Calmfors
Lars Calmfors Research Institute of Industrial Economics
Michael C. Burda
Michael C. Burda Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Richard B. Freeman
Richard B. Freeman Harvard University
Bertil Holmlund
Bertil Holmlund Uppsala University
Herman G. van de Werfhorst
Herman G. van de Werfhorst University of Amsterdam
Tito Boeri
Tito Boeri Bocconi University

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