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Tommaso Agasisti is affiliated with the Polytechnic University of Milan in Italy. Their research primarily focuses on social sciences, with specific attention to education, economics and econometrics, political science and international relations, management science and operations research, and accounting.

The primary fields of their scholarly activity include:

  • Social Sciences

Within this broad area, their subfields of specialization are:

  • Education
  • Economics and Econometrics
  • Political Science and International Relations
  • Management Science and Operations Research
  • Accounting

The main topics they have addressed in their research include:

  • School Choice and Performance
  • Higher Education Governance and Development
  • Efficiency Analysis Using DEA
  • Financial Literacy, Pension, Retirement Analysis
  • Fiscal Policy and Economic Growth
  • Higher Education Research Studies
  • Parental Involvement in Education

Notable recent papers by Tommaso Agasisti are as follows:

  • "Higher education in troubled times: on the impact of Covid-19 in Italy," published in 2020 in Studies in Higher Education
  • "Higher education and economic growth: A longitudinal study of European regions 2000-2017," published in 2020 in Socio-Economic Planning Sciences
  • "ICT Use at home for school-related tasks: what is the effect on a student's achievement? Empirical evidence from OECD PISA data," published in 2020 in Education Economics
  • "Efficiency of regional higher education systems and regional economic short-run growth: empirical evidence from Russia," published in 2020 in Industry and Innovation
  • "What School Factors are Associated with the Success of Socio-Economically Disadvantaged Students? An Empirical Investigation Using PISA Data," published in 2021 in Social Indicators Research

The most frequent publication venues for their work include:

  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Applied Economics
  • Education Economics
  • Studies in Higher Education
  • Socio-Economic Planning Sciences

Frequent coauthors include:

  • Mara Soncin
  • Marta Cannistrà
  • Алексей Егоров
  • Kristof De Witte
  • Alice Bertoletti

Best Publications

  • Comparing efficiency in a cross-country perspective: the case of Italian and Spanish state universities

    Tommaso Agasisti;Carmen Pérez-Esparrells

  • Beyond frontiers: comparing the efficiency of higher education decision‐making units across more than one country

    Tommaso Agasisti;Geraint Johnes

  • The Efficiency of Public Spending on Education: an empirical comparison of EU countries

    Tommaso Agasisti

  • Academic resilience: What schools and countries do to help disadvantaged students succeed in PISA

    Tommaso Agasisti;Francesco Avvisati;Francesca Borgonovi;Sergio Longobardi

  • Governance Models of University Systems--towards Quasi-Markets? Tendencies and Perspectives: A European Comparison.

    Tommaso Agasisti;Giuseppe Pasquale Roberto Catalano

  • Performances and spending efficiency in higher education: a European comparison through non‐parametric approaches

    Tommaso Agasisti

  • Exploring the efficiency of Mexican universities: Integrating Data Envelopment Analysis and Multidimensional Scaling

    Marti Sagarra;Cecilio Mar-Molinero;Cecilio Mar-Molinero;Tommaso Agasisti

  • Reforming the university sector: effects on teaching efficiency—evidence from Italy

    Tommaso Agasisti;Antonio Dal Bianco

  • Heterogeneity and the Evaluation of Efficiency: the Case of Italian Universities

    Tommaso Agasisti;Geraint Johnes

  • Comparing German and Italian Public Universities: Convergence or Divergence in the Higher Education Landscape?

    Tommaso Agasisti;Carsten Pohl

  • Data envelopment analysis to the Italian university system: theoretical issues and policy implications

    Tommaso Agasisti;Antonio Dal Bianco

  • Big data and the measurement of public organizations’ performance and efficiency: the state-of-the-art

    Nicky Rogge;Tommaso Agasisti;Kristof De Witte

  • Higher education and economic growth: A longitudinal study of European regions 2000–2017

    Tommaso Agasisti;Alice Bertoletti

  • Higher education in troubled times: on the impact of Covid-19 in Italy

    Tommaso Agasisti;Mara Soncin

  • Efficiency, costs, rankings and heterogeneity: the case of US higher education

    Tommaso Agasisti;Geraint Johnes

  • Efficiency and quality of care in nursing homes: an Italian case study.

    Giulia Garavaglia;Emanuele Lettieri;Tommaso Agasisti;Silvano Lopez

  • The efficiency of Italian secondary schools and the potential role of competition: a data envelopment analysis using OECD-PISA2006 data.

    Tommaso Agasisti

  • Research, knowledge transfer, and innovation: The effect of Italian universities’ efficiency on local economic development 2006−2012

    Tommaso Agasisti;Cristian Barra;Roberto Zotti

  • Assessing the Cost Efficiency of Italian Universities

    Tommaso Agasisti;Carlo Salerno

  • Evaluating the performance of academic departments: an analysis of research-related output efficiency

    Tommaso Agasisti;Giuseppe Catalano;Paolo Landoni;Roberto Verganti

  • Inequality in education: Can Italian disadvantaged students close the gap?

    Tommaso Agasisti;Sergio Longobardi

Frequent Co-Authors

Geraint Johnes
Geraint Johnes Lancaster University
Jill Johnes
Jill Johnes University of Huddersfield
Clive Belfield
Clive Belfield Queens College, CUNY

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