The DOI matches its Crossref record; 120 of the 120 references it cites were found in a registry or an index.
Educational choices and the selection process: before and after compulsory schooling
Open accessAbstract
The aim of this paper is to analyze the selection process at work before and after compulsory schooling by assessing the determinants of school failures, dropouts and upper secondary school decisions of young Italians. The dataset is built combining individual data by the Labor Force Survey and aggregate data on local labor markets and school supply by the Italian National Statistic Institute and the Minister of Public Education, respectively. Our results show that school failure (i.e., repetition of a year) is highly correlated with the family background, and it strongly affects later choices. Early school leaving and the upper secondary school choice are mainly a reflection of the parents' socioeconomic status. The effectiveness of the educational system when narrowing the failure risk and the scholastic outflow relies on the widespread adoption of full-time attendance in compulsory school, the quality of the school infrastructures and the fewer teachers with temporary contracts.
Overview
The claims and statistics of this paper haven’t been checked yet.
Run the check — free, no account needed. It reads the open-access text and checks the sources it cites.
Integrity signals
Registry
Cites
Statistics
Verification
Claims the paper makes
The claims and statistics of this paper haven’t been checked yet.
Run the check — free, no account needed. It reads the open-access text and checks the sources it cites.
Self-check
Percentages, sums and reported differences re-computed from the paper’s own numbers.
The self-check needs the paper’s full text.
Citations
Cites
Journal of economic literature
Armstrong, J. S. (1996) · International Journal of Forecasting · doi:10.1016/0169-2070(96)88197-0 · Cited by 9,923
Dropout from Higher Education: A Theoretical Synthesis of Recent Research
Tinto, V. (1975) · Review of Educational Research · doi:10.2307/1170024 · Cited by 7,888
The Quarterly Journal of Economics
Kuznets, S. (2024) · Business Cycle Theory, Part I Volume 4 · doi:10.4324/9781003549741-8 · Cited by 7,176
Teachers, Schools, and Academic Achievement
Rivkin, S. G., Hanushek, E. A., & Kain, J. F. (2005) · Econometrica · doi:10.1111/j.1468-0262.2005.00584.x · Cited by 4,501
Ocde, O. (2005) · Cited by 2,387
The Determinants of Children's Attainments: A Review of Methods and Findings
HAVEMAN, R. H., & Wolfe, B. L. (1995) · RePEc: Research Papers in Economics · Cited by 1,686
Using Maimonides' Rule to Estimate the Effect of Class Size on Scholastic Achievement
Angrist, J. D., & Lavy, V. (1999) · The Quarterly Journal of Economics · doi:10.1162/003355399556061 · Cited by 1,482
Breen, R., & Jonsson, J. O. (2005) · Annual Review of Sociology · doi:10.1146/annurev.soc.31.041304.122232 · Cited by 1,303
Teachers and Student Achievement in the Chicago Public High Schools
Aaronson, D., Barrow, L., & Sander, W. (2007) · Journal of Labor Economics · doi:10.1086/508733 · Cited by 1,291
Dropping Out of Middle School: A Multilevel Analysis of Students and Schools
Rumberger, R. W. (1995) · American Educational Research Journal · doi:10.3102/00028312032003583 · Cited by 1,251
Cited by
POLITICIANS AT WORK: THE PRIVATE RETURNS AND SOCIAL COSTS OF POLITICAL CONNECTIONS
Cingano, F., & Pinotti, P. (2013) · Journal of the European Economic Association · doi:10.1111/jeea.12001 · Cited by 561
Evidence on the impact of R&D and ICT investments on innovation and productivity in Italian firms
Hall, B. H., Lotti, F., & Mairesse, J. (2013) · Economics of Innovation and New Technology · doi:10.1080/10438599.2012.708134 · Cited by 304
Industry Dynamics and Competition from Low‐Wage Countries: Evidence on Italy
Federico, S. (2014) · Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics · doi:10.1111/obes.12023 · Cited by 281
Imperfect Information, Real‐Time Data and Monetary Policy in the Euro Area
Neri, S., & Ropele, T. (2012) · The Economic Journal · doi:10.1111/j.1468-0297.2011.02488.x · Cited by 269
Metadata
- Authors
- Mocetti, S.
- Venue
- Education Economics
- Publisher
- Informa UK Limited
- Published
- 2012-05
- Volume
- 20
- Issue
- 2
- Pages
- 189-209
- ISSN
- 0964-5292 (ISSN-L)
- 1469-5782
- OpenAlex
- W2139318206
- Cited by
- 332
- References
- 120
- FWCI
- 232.29
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
About these checks
Registry, retraction, Cites and statistics results are computed, not judged, with one exception: a printed reference that no index lists is read once by a model before it counts as a citation error. Claims are extracted by a model and kept only when their quote appears verbatim in the text; each cited source is then checked, with a model’s help, for whether it says what the claim relies on. Those verdicts can be wrong — read the claim’s quote and the cited source before relying on one.
Statistics and arithmetic are recomputed, not judged.
Confidence bands are shown only for fields calibrated on our annotated test set. None is calibrated yet, so no band is shown.
What counts as a claim ›How we measure confidence ›How we check this ›
Are you an author, or do you see a problem with this page? Request a review
How to cite
Cite CoChat for the checks on this page, and the paper for its own findings.
- This page
- CoChat. (2026). Citation check: Educational choices and the selection process: before and after compulsory schooling. https://app.cochat.ai/papers/10.1080/09645291003726434
- The paper
- Mocetti, S. (2012). Educational choices and the selection process: before and after compulsory schooling. Education Economics. https://doi.org/10.1080/09645291003726434
Data sources
Bibliographic data: Semantic Scholar, OpenAlex, Crossref.
Contains information from the Semantic Scholar Academic Graph Datasets, made available under the ODC Attribution License (ODC-BY 1.0).
Semantic Scholar’s data is described in: Kinney, R., et al. (2023). The Semantic Scholar Open Data Platform. arXiv:2301.10140.
