F Borgonovi
Biographic Data
| ID | 267296 |
|---|---|
| NAME | F Borgonovi |
| GIVEN NAMES | F |
| FAMILY NAME | Borgonovi |
| SIGNATURE | BORGONOVI F |
| AFFILIATIONS | Organisation de Coopération et de Développement Economiques |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6759-4515 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 35 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 270 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 35 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Growth Mindsets and Achievement: Evidence Across Academic and Creative Domains From an International Perspective
INTRODUCTION: Developing students' transversal skills, such as creativity, alongside strong academic foundations, has become an increasing priority for education systems worldwide. However, most existing research on mindsets and achievement has focused on general intelligence growth mindsets or growth mindsets in academic domains, particularly mathematics, leaving the role of mindsets in transversal skill development largely unexplored. METHODS: …
Social and emotional skills and young people's expectations of social status and mobility
The Relationship Between Internet Use, Achievement, and Persistence in Digital Tasks
INTRODUCTION: As technology progresses, individuals will be increasingly expected to solve digital tasks. At the same time, many worry that a high use of connected devices will reduce young people's ability to perform with accuracy long cognitively challenging tasks online. METHODS: We examine whether 15-year-old students' ability to accurately solve cognitively challenging digital tasks-and to maintain accuracy throughout the 2-h PISA low-stakes…
Relations between academic boredom, academic achievement, ICT use, and teacher enthusiasm among adolescents
Using large, representative samples (N = 76,818) of 15-year-old students in eight countries that took part in the 2018 edition of the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) we develop multilevel regression models to estimate the association between boredom and reading and mathematics achievement and multilevel moderation models to estimate the likelihood that students will experience academic boredom as a function of their use of I…
Clustering sequential navigation patterns in multiple‐source reading tasks with dynamic time warping method
Gender differences in collaborative problem-solving skills in a cross-country perspective
Effective collaborative problem solving comprises cognitive dimensions, in which men tend to outperform women, and social dimensions in which women tend to outperform men. We extend research on between-country differences in gender gaps by considering collaborative problem solving and its association with two indicators of societal-level gender inequality. The first indicator reflects women's underrepresentation in the labor market and politics. …
Covid-19 and inequalities in educational achievement in Italy
From asking to observing. Behavioural measures of socio-emotional and motivational skills in large-scale assessments
Socio-emotional and motivational skills are routinely measured using self-reports in large-scale educational assessments. Measures exploiting test-takers' behaviour during the completion of questionnaires or cognitive tests are increasingly used as alternatives to self-reports in the economics of education literature. We compute behavioural measures of socio-emotional and motivational skills using data from the Programme for International Student…
How much do students’ scores in Pisa reflect general intelligence and how much do they reflect specific abilities
International Large-Scale Assessments (LSA) allow comparisons of education systems’ effectiveness in promoting student learning in specific domains, such as reading, mathematics, and science. However, it has been argued that students’ scores in International LSAs mostly reflect general cognitive ability (g). This study examines the extent to which students’ scores in reading, mathematics, science, and a Raven’s Progressive Matrices test reflect g…
Is the literacy achievement of teenage boys poorer than that of teenage girls, or do estimates of gender gaps depend on the test? A comparison of Pisa and Piaac
Data from international large-scale assessments (ILSAs) of schooled populations indicate that boys have considerably poorer literacy skills than girls. New evidence from a household-based ILSA—Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development Survey of Adult Skills (PIAAC)—indicates that the gender gap in literacy is negligible, even though its assessment framework is similar to that of one of the most widely used school-based assessments, th…
Relationships between Family Socioeconomic Status and Mathematics Achievement in OECD and Non-OECD Countries
This article examines the relationships between family socioeconomic status (SES) and mathematics achievement across countries while taking into account (a) the country’s development status and (b) the types of resources (physical versus human) available at home. The 2012 round of the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) data were analyzed using the necessary condition analysis (NCA) procedures. The study found that only the huma…
The Role of Birthplace Diversity in Shaping Education Gradients in Trust: Country and Regional Level Mediation-Moderation Analyses
This paper examines between-country differences in why education promotes trust using data from 29 countries (and 146 regions) participating in the OECD’s Survey of Adult Skills (PIAAC). Results indicate that education is strongly associated with trust and that individuals’ literacy, income, and occupational prestige are important mediators of this association. Contrary to previous studies we do not find that country level or regional level birth…
Leveraging process data to assess adults’ problem-solving skills: Using sequence mining to identify behavioral patterns across digital tasks
The evolution of gender gaps in numeracy and literacy between childhood and young adulthood
Performance decline in a low‐stakes test at age 15 and educational attainment at age 25: Cross‐country longitudinal evidence
INTRODUCTION: Educational attainment is associated with important life outcomes including labour market performance, health status, well-being, civic and political participation. An important question is whether it is possible to identify early those students who lack the achievement motivation that is needed to complete a higher education degree. METHODS: Longitudinal follow-ups of representative samples of participants in the 2000 and 2003 Prog…
Gender disparities in fear of failure among 15‐year‐old students: The role of gender inequality, the organisation of schooling and economic conditions
INTRODUCTION: Prior research indicates that female students express higher fear of failure than male students and that fear of failure is associated with lower social and emotional well-being and higher levels of stress, anxiety, burnout and depression. Fear of failure also leads individuals to limit their choices and take fewer risks than would be warranted given their ability and context to minimise the possibility of failing. METHODS: We exami…
The evolution of socio‐economic disparities in literacy skills from age 15 to age 27 in 20 countries
This study contributes to the literature by examining the evolution of socio‐economic disparities in literacy skills between age 15 and 27. It uses combined cross‐sectional data from the Programme for International Student Assessment and the Programme for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies in 20 countries and adopts a synthetic cohort approach. In the article we examine if there are differences in the evolution of socio‐economic d…
The evolution of the association between community level social capital and Covid-19 deaths and hospitalizations in the United States
What School Factors are Associated with the Success of Socio-Economically Disadvantaged Students? An Empirical Investigation Using Pisa Data
Many school-level policies, such as school funding formulae and teacher allocation mechanisms, aim at reducing the influence of students' low socio-economic condition on academic achievement. Benchmarks and indicators based on large-scale international assessments can be used to measure academic success and identify if and when disadvantaged students are successful. We build on such work and develop a new method for identifying a cross-country co…
Why don’t more boys want to become teachers? The effect of a gendered profession on students’ career expectations
Students' teaching career expectations by gender and ability levels in science and math: The role of salary and numeracy skills
Understanding what factors foster young people's aspirations to work as teachers is critical for designing effective recruitment policies, and for ensuring that enough youngsters enter the teaching profession. We examine what factors explain between‐country differences in the percentage of 15‐year‐old students who expect to work as teachers as adults. We focus on two factors: (1) the salaries teachers can expect to earn compared to professionals …
Bowling together by bowling alone: Social capital and Covid-19
What Motivates High School Students to Want to Be Teachers? The Role of Salary, Working Conditions, and Societal Evaluations About Occupations in a Comparative Perspective
This study examines between-country differences in the degree to which teachers’ working conditions, salaries, and societal evaluations about desirable job characteristics are associated with students’ teaching career expectations. Three-level hierarchical generalized linear models are employed to analyze cross-national data from the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA). Results reveal that teacher salaries and societal evaluatio…
Combining Achievement and Well-Being in the Assessment of Education Systems
The Math Anxiety-Performance Link: A Global Phenomenon
Demand for science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) professionals is on the rise worldwide. To effectively meet this demand, many governments and private organizations have revamped STEM education and promoted training to enhance math and science skills among students and workers. Education and training programs typically focus on increasing individuals’ math and science knowledge. However, data from laboratory studies and large-s…
Doing well by doing good. The relationship between formal volunteering and self-reported health and happiness
Divided We Stand, United We Fall: Religious Pluralism, Giving, and Volunteering
This article examines to what extent religious context influences giving to, and volunteering for, religious causes-both directly and through increased attendance at religious services-and whether it has unintended spillover effects on giving and volunteering for secular purposes. Results from individuals living in a sample of counties in the United States indicate that a high level of religious pluralism is not associated with an increase in the…
Bowling together by bowling alone: Social capital and Covid-19
The relationship between education and levels of trust and tolerance in Europe 1
In this article we explore the relationship between education and levels of trust and tolerance in Europe. More specifically we assess whether the relationship between years of schooling and the extent to which individuals trust others in their communities and are tolerant towards immigrants varies across European countries and attempt to identify possible sources of these variations. Findings based on data from the first three rounds of the Euro…
The evolution of the association between community level social capital and Covid-19 deaths and hospitalizations in the United States
What Motivates High School Students to Want to Be Teachers? The Role of Salary, Working Conditions, and Societal Evaluations About Occupations in a Comparative Perspective
This study examines between-country differences in the degree to which teachers’ working conditions, salaries, and societal evaluations about desirable job characteristics are associated with students’ teaching career expectations. Three-level hierarchical generalized linear models are employed to analyze cross-national data from the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA). Results reveal that teacher salaries and societal evaluatio…
Education, alcohol use and abuse among young adults in Britain
What School Factors are Associated with the Success of Socio-Economically Disadvantaged Students? An Empirical Investigation Using Pisa Data
Many school-level policies, such as school funding formulae and teacher allocation mechanisms, aim at reducing the influence of students' low socio-economic condition on academic achievement. Benchmarks and indicators based on large-scale international assessments can be used to measure academic success and identify if and when disadvantaged students are successful. We build on such work and develop a new method for identifying a cross-country co…
A life-cycle approach to the analysis of the relationship between social capital and health in Britain
Do public grants to American theatres crowd-out private donations
Combining Achievement and Well-Being in the Assessment of Education Systems
Covid-19 and inequalities in educational achievement in Italy
From asking to observing. Behavioural measures of socio-emotional and motivational skills in large-scale assessments
Socio-emotional and motivational skills are routinely measured using self-reports in large-scale educational assessments. Measures exploiting test-takers' behaviour during the completion of questionnaires or cognitive tests are increasingly used as alternatives to self-reports in the economics of education literature. We compute behavioural measures of socio-emotional and motivational skills using data from the Programme for International Student…
The evolution of socio‐economic disparities in literacy skills from age 15 to age 27 in 20 countries
This study contributes to the literature by examining the evolution of socio‐economic disparities in literacy skills between age 15 and 27. It uses combined cross‐sectional data from the Programme for International Student Assessment and the Programme for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies in 20 countries and adopts a synthetic cohort approach. In the article we examine if there are differences in the evolution of socio‐economic d…
Adversity in Childhood and Mental Health in Adulthood: The Role of Social Capital
The study examines whether social capital fosters resilience among individuals who are at a high risk of developing mental distress in adulthood. Results suggest that social capital is not associated with a reduction in the probability that high-risk individuals will experience mental distress, while one form of social capital, membership in groups and associations, appears to play a protective role among low-risk individuals. Overall, our resear…
Performing arts attendance: An economic approach
This paper examines to what extent art education, prices and standard socio-economic characteristics influence attendance at professional performing arts events (theatre, classical music, opera, ballet and dance). It distinguishes the influence such variables have on whether a person participates or not, from the effect that they have on the number of times a person decides to attend. The introduction of art education and price variables is likel…
Do public grants to American theatres crowd-out private donations
The Border Conflict between the Present and the Past: Programming Classical Music and Opera
Contemporary music is a category of cultural capital that is employed by symphonies and opera especially inefficiently. Considering its quantity, presumed relevance to social needs, and programming, this is surprising. The authors present a model of the programming decision for an ensemble that indicates that increasing the use of contemporary music's capital stock (i.e., increasing on-stage performances of contemporary music and thus listeners' …
Adversity in Childhood and Mental Health in Adulthood: The Role of Social Capital
The study examines whether social capital fosters resilience among individuals who are at a high risk of developing mental distress in adulthood. Results suggest that social capital is not associated with a reduction in the probability that high-risk individuals will experience mental distress, while one form of social capital, membership in groups and associations, appears to play a protective role among low-risk individuals. Overall, our resear…
Divided We Stand, United We Fall: Religious Pluralism, Giving, and Volunteering
This article examines to what extent religious context influences giving to, and volunteering for, religious causes-both directly and through increased attendance at religious services-and whether it has unintended spillover effects on giving and volunteering for secular purposes. Results from individuals living in a sample of counties in the United States indicate that a high level of religious pluralism is not associated with an increase in the…
Doing well by doing good. The relationship between formal volunteering and self-reported health and happiness
Lower Prices Improve Diversity in the Performing Arts: Is This True and Does It Matter
Participation and attendance in the arts can foster social capital, economic regeneration and skill acquisition. For these reasons, encouraging greater arts participation and attendance among disadvantaged groups became part of the New Labour strategy to promote neighbourhood renewal and tackle social exclusion. It is, however, far from clear what policies are best suited to achieve the aim of greater involvement in the arts. One policy option is…
Education, alcohol use and abuse among young adults in Britain
A life-cycle approach to the analysis of the relationship between social capital and health in Britain
The relationship between education and levels of trust and tolerance in Europe 1
In this article we explore the relationship between education and levels of trust and tolerance in Europe. More specifically we assess whether the relationship between years of schooling and the extent to which individuals trust others in their communities and are tolerant towards immigrants varies across European countries and attempt to identify possible sources of these variations. Findings based on data from the first three rounds of the Euro…
The Math Anxiety-Performance Link: A Global Phenomenon
Demand for science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) professionals is on the rise worldwide. To effectively meet this demand, many governments and private organizations have revamped STEM education and promoted training to enhance math and science skills among students and workers. Education and training programs typically focus on increasing individuals’ math and science knowledge. However, data from laboratory studies and large-s…
What Motivates High School Students to Want to Be Teachers? The Role of Salary, Working Conditions, and Societal Evaluations About Occupations in a Comparative Perspective
This study examines between-country differences in the degree to which teachers’ working conditions, salaries, and societal evaluations about desirable job characteristics are associated with students’ teaching career expectations. Three-level hierarchical generalized linear models are employed to analyze cross-national data from the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA). Results reveal that teacher salaries and societal evaluatio…
Combining Achievement and Well-Being in the Assessment of Education Systems
Why don’t more boys want to become teachers? The effect of a gendered profession on students’ career expectations
Students' teaching career expectations by gender and ability levels in science and math: The role of salary and numeracy skills
Understanding what factors foster young people's aspirations to work as teachers is critical for designing effective recruitment policies, and for ensuring that enough youngsters enter the teaching profession. We examine what factors explain between‐country differences in the percentage of 15‐year‐old students who expect to work as teachers as adults. We focus on two factors: (1) the salaries teachers can expect to earn compared to professionals …
Bowling together by bowling alone: Social capital and Covid-19
Leveraging process data to assess adults’ problem-solving skills: Using sequence mining to identify behavioral patterns across digital tasks
The evolution of gender gaps in numeracy and literacy between childhood and young adulthood
Performance decline in a low‐stakes test at age 15 and educational attainment at age 25: Cross‐country longitudinal evidence
INTRODUCTION: Educational attainment is associated with important life outcomes including labour market performance, health status, well-being, civic and political participation. An important question is whether it is possible to identify early those students who lack the achievement motivation that is needed to complete a higher education degree. METHODS: Longitudinal follow-ups of representative samples of participants in the 2000 and 2003 Prog…
Gender disparities in fear of failure among 15‐year‐old students: The role of gender inequality, the organisation of schooling and economic conditions
INTRODUCTION: Prior research indicates that female students express higher fear of failure than male students and that fear of failure is associated with lower social and emotional well-being and higher levels of stress, anxiety, burnout and depression. Fear of failure also leads individuals to limit their choices and take fewer risks than would be warranted given their ability and context to minimise the possibility of failing. METHODS: We exami…
The evolution of socio‐economic disparities in literacy skills from age 15 to age 27 in 20 countries
This study contributes to the literature by examining the evolution of socio‐economic disparities in literacy skills between age 15 and 27. It uses combined cross‐sectional data from the Programme for International Student Assessment and the Programme for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies in 20 countries and adopts a synthetic cohort approach. In the article we examine if there are differences in the evolution of socio‐economic d…
The evolution of the association between community level social capital and Covid-19 deaths and hospitalizations in the United States
What School Factors are Associated with the Success of Socio-Economically Disadvantaged Students? An Empirical Investigation Using Pisa Data
Many school-level policies, such as school funding formulae and teacher allocation mechanisms, aim at reducing the influence of students' low socio-economic condition on academic achievement. Benchmarks and indicators based on large-scale international assessments can be used to measure academic success and identify if and when disadvantaged students are successful. We build on such work and develop a new method for identifying a cross-country co…
How much do students’ scores in Pisa reflect general intelligence and how much do they reflect specific abilities
International Large-Scale Assessments (LSA) allow comparisons of education systems’ effectiveness in promoting student learning in specific domains, such as reading, mathematics, and science. However, it has been argued that students’ scores in International LSAs mostly reflect general cognitive ability (g). This study examines the extent to which students’ scores in reading, mathematics, science, and a Raven’s Progressive Matrices test reflect g…
Is the literacy achievement of teenage boys poorer than that of teenage girls, or do estimates of gender gaps depend on the test? A comparison of Pisa and Piaac
Data from international large-scale assessments (ILSAs) of schooled populations indicate that boys have considerably poorer literacy skills than girls. New evidence from a household-based ILSA—Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development Survey of Adult Skills (PIAAC)—indicates that the gender gap in literacy is negligible, even though its assessment framework is similar to that of one of the most widely used school-based assessments, th…
Psychology (27 works) · Political science (19 works) · Sociology (18 works) · Economics (15 works) · Mathematics education (12 works) · Demographic economics (11 works) · Demography (11 works) · Developmental psychology (11 works) · Economic growth (11 works) · Medicine (11 works)