Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/316758 
Year of Publication: 
2025
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 17803
Publisher: 
Institute of Labor Economics (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
We study the impact of a program designed to enhance data literacy on graduate students' skills and academic outcomes in a large Italian university. The program (i.e. a minor) targets students who are expected to have weak quantitative competences and offers 120-hours training focused on improving the ability to interpret and process data, in addition to the regular courses of the master program in which students are enrolled (i.e. their major). The admission process to the minor is characterized by rationing, resolved by random assignment of available slots to applicants. Exploiting the resulting exogenous variation for identification, we find that the program largely improved digital literacy of participants with low pre-treatment levels of numeracy. Despite the additional effort required by the program, we can rule out any slowdown in the progress of the academic career in the major master program of participating students.
Subjects: 
tertiary education
minor
data literacy
human capital formation
JEL: 
I20
J24
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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