Movers and stayers in STEM enrollment in Italy: who performs better?

Abstract Recently, the mobility behavior of Italian university students has garnered increasing interest from both social scientists and politicians. The very particular geographical characteristics of the country, together with the recognized persistence of a significant economic gap between the so...

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Autores principales:	Antonella D’Agostino, Giulio Ghellini, Gabriele Lombardi
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Publicado:	SpringerOpen 2021
Materias:	Inter-regional student mobility STEM Performance Variance component model Demography. Population. Vital events HB848-3697
Acceso en línea:	https://doaj.org/article/21f1424110734c319aa85274a27e2ba0
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:21f1424110734c319aa85274a27e2ba02021-11-07T12:15:56ZMovers and stayers in STEM enrollment in Italy: who performs better?10.1186/s41118-021-00141-72035-5556https://doaj.org/article/21f1424110734c319aa85274a27e2ba02021-11-01T00:00:00Zhttps://doi.org/10.1186/s41118-021-00141-7https://doaj.org/toc/2035-5556Abstract Recently, the mobility behavior of Italian university students has garnered increasing interest from both social scientists and politicians. The very particular geographical characteristics of the country, together with the recognized persistence of a significant economic gap between the southern and northern regions, drive a large number of students to move from the first macro-region to the latter. As this phenomenon has several economic and social implications for policy-makers—at both central and local levels—it has led to various theories and prejudices. The present article will study the differences between the performance of STEM students who have decided to move from the south to the north and those who have decided to stay close to their hometowns. We devised multilevel modelling techniques to analyze this issue using administrative microdata from the Italian Ministry for Universities and Research (MUR), including eight cohorts of students from AY 2008–2009 to AY 2015–16, who enrolled in STEM fields after earning their high school diploma. One of the main findings is that individuals who moved from the south show lower levels of performance than their stayer counterparts who are enrolled in northern or central universities.Antonella D’AgostinoGiulio GhelliniGabriele LombardiSpringerOpenarticleInter-regional student mobilitySTEMPerformanceVariance component modelDemography. Population. Vital eventsHB848-3697ENGenus, Vol 77, Iss 1, Pp 1-19 (2021)
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topic	Inter-regional student mobility STEM Performance Variance component model Demography. Population. Vital events HB848-3697
spellingShingle	Inter-regional student mobility STEM Performance Variance component model Demography. Population. Vital events HB848-3697 Antonella D’Agostino Giulio Ghellini Gabriele Lombardi Movers and stayers in STEM enrollment in Italy: who performs better?
description	Abstract Recently, the mobility behavior of Italian university students has garnered increasing interest from both social scientists and politicians. The very particular geographical characteristics of the country, together with the recognized persistence of a significant economic gap between the southern and northern regions, drive a large number of students to move from the first macro-region to the latter. As this phenomenon has several economic and social implications for policy-makers—at both central and local levels—it has led to various theories and prejudices. The present article will study the differences between the performance of STEM students who have decided to move from the south to the north and those who have decided to stay close to their hometowns. We devised multilevel modelling techniques to analyze this issue using administrative microdata from the Italian Ministry for Universities and Research (MUR), including eight cohorts of students from AY 2008–2009 to AY 2015–16, who enrolled in STEM fields after earning their high school diploma. One of the main findings is that individuals who moved from the south show lower levels of performance than their stayer counterparts who are enrolled in northern or central universities.
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title	Movers and stayers in STEM enrollment in Italy: who performs better?
title_short	Movers and stayers in STEM enrollment in Italy: who performs better?
title_full	Movers and stayers in STEM enrollment in Italy: who performs better?
title_fullStr	Movers and stayers in STEM enrollment in Italy: who performs better?
title_full_unstemmed	Movers and stayers in STEM enrollment in Italy: who performs better?
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url	https://doaj.org/article/21f1424110734c319aa85274a27e2ba0
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Movers and stayers in STEM enrollment in Italy: who performs better?

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