Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/171010 
Year of Publication: 
2017
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 11026
Publisher: 
Institute of Labor Economics (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
This paper investigates whether or not research quality is significantly associated with a university's ability to attract students from other provinces in Italy. First university enrolments of students over the period 2003–2011 are regressed on several universities' research quality indicators computed from different bibliometric databases (ISI-Thompson, Scopus-Elsevier and Google Scholar) using fixed effects-gravity models. Our estimates suggest that improving research quality may be an effective way of reducing 'brain drain' from southern Italy.
Subjects: 
brain drain
research quality
student mobility
university
Italy
JEL: 
I23
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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