Gianni De Fraja
Biographic Data
| ID | 5730815 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Gianni De Fraja |
| GIVEN NAMES | Gianni |
| FAMILY NAME | De Fraja |
| SIGNATURE | DE FRAJA G |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of York |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6164-1002 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 10 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 20 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
School autonomy and pupils’ performance: Academy conversion in English primary schools
Can boarding schools help looked after and vulnerable children improve academic attainment
The education of children in statutory care, or at the edge of care, is a serious concern for governments and policymakers. How to promote educational opportunities for these children can involve challenging and often contentious proposals. In this paper, we study one proposal put into practice in England: the provision to children who are in statutory care, or at the edge of care, with the opportunity to attend an independent boarding school. Th…
Remote working and the new geography of local service spending
Remote working has rapidly become the new norm in many sectors, at least some of the time. Remote working changes where workers spend much of their time and the geographical location of demand, particularly for local personal services (LPS). Our main contribution is to systematically quantify this change for England and Wales using a new nationally representative survey of nearly 35,000 working‐age adults, which captures (pre‐pandemic) LPS spendi…
Incentives and Careers in Academia: Theory and Empirical Analysis
We study career concerns in italian academia. We mold our empirical analysis on the standard model of contests, formalized in the multiunit all-pay auction. The number of posts, the number of applicants, and the relative importance of the criteria for promotion determine academics' effort and output. In Italian universities, incentives operate only through promotion, and all appointment panels are drawn from strictly separated and relatively narr…
Effects of passive smoking on prenatal and infant development: Lessons from the past
Have you Read This? An Empirical Comparison of the British REF Peer Review and the Italian VQR Bibliometric Algorithm
This paper determines the assessment of publications submitted to the UK research evaluation carried out in 2014, the REF, which would have resulted if they had been assessed with the bibliometric algorithm used by the Italian evaluation agency, ANVUR, for its evaluation of the research of Italian universities. We find extremely high correlations between the two assessment approaches
The Wounds That Do Not Heal: The Lifetime Scar of Youth Unemployment
This paper uses UK administrative data to study the long‐term effects of unemployment on earnings. It is the first paper to pinpoint accurately the relative importance of the timing of employment shocks within workers’ lives. We find a strong effect of events in the first few years after entry into the labour market: each month of unemployment between ages 18 and 20 causes a permanent income loss of 1.2% per year. This scar effect of youth unempl…
Conspicuous Consumption
The desegregating effect of school tracking
The demand for tobacco in post-unification Italy
The source of differences in population distributions
Must Try Harder: Evaluating the Role of Effort in Educational Attainment
The efforts exerted by children, parents, and schools affect the outcome of the education process. We build this idea into a theoretical model where the effort exerted by the three groups of agents is simultaneously determined as a Nash equilibrium. The empirical analysis tests the model using the British National Child Development Study and finds support for this idea. We identify which factors affect educational attainment directly and which in…
Constitutional Design and Investment in Cooperatives and Investor‐Owned Enterprises
This paper studies the role of the corporate governance system in cooperatives and in investor‐owned enterprises. We abstract from all possible differences between the two systems except the type of majority needed to take decisions: this is one‐head‐one‐vote for cooperatives and proportional to capital invested in investor‐owned firms. We show that the institutional form chosen matters for the initial investment decision of the agents: in partic…
Education Matters: Selected Essays by Alan B. Krueger
Walras Retrouvé: Decentralized Trading Mechanisms and the Competitive Price
We extend the standard analysis of decentralized markets to allow for the possibility that traders interact simultaneously with more than one trader on the opposite side of the market. In contrast with the literature, we reconcile the Walrasian equilibrium with the outcome of decentralized strategic trade: we show that there exist generic matching technologies that determine local market conditions such that, as market frictions vanish, the equil…
Education Policies: Equity, Efficiency and Voting Equilibrium
This paper investigates the effects of two specific forms of intervention in the market for education: an ability test for admission to university and a subsidy to tuition fees financed through general taxation. Both these measures enhance equality of opportunity, but their equity and efficiency effects are ambiguous. This ambiguity is reflected in the political economy equilibrium which would emerge as the result of voting on the level of the ab…
Slot allocation: A model of competition between firms when consumers are procedurally rational
Regulation and Access Pricing: Comparison of Regulated Regimes
The statutory duties of regulators of British utilities include both the encouragement of competition and protection of consumers (through price caps). Competition depends on the terms on which new entrants can gain access to the monopolist's network. Where the incumbent in the retail market also owns the network, the regulator may determine prices in the capped and access markets separately or may make the price cap explicitly dependent on entry…
Minimum Wage Legislation, Productivity and Employment
The effects of minimum wage legislation are analysed with the assumptions that firms are able to alter the working conditions of their employees, and that workers have different preferences about the characteristics of their job. The main findings tally with Card and Krueger’s (1995) recent somewhat puzzling empirical evidence about the effects of changes in minimum wage. I find that the effects of changes in the minimum wage on employment are li…
Price Caps and Output Floors: A Comparison of Simple Regulatory Rules
We study in this paper a simple alternative to price cap regulation. The mechanism, which we label ‘output floor’ regulation, requires the regulated firm to supply a given level of output. This rule is as simple as price cap regulation, and performs identically when the regulated firm is a natural monopoly; however, we show that, in the presence of a competitive fringe, output floor regulation yields lower prices and stronger incentives for cost …
The desegregating effect of school tracking
Education Policies: Equity, Efficiency and Voting Equilibrium
This paper investigates the effects of two specific forms of intervention in the market for education: an ability test for admission to university and a subsidy to tuition fees financed through general taxation. Both these measures enhance equality of opportunity, but their equity and efficiency effects are ambiguous. This ambiguity is reflected in the political economy equilibrium which would emerge as the result of voting on the level of the ab…
Minimum Wage Legislation, Productivity and Employment
The effects of minimum wage legislation are analysed with the assumptions that firms are able to alter the working conditions of their employees, and that workers have different preferences about the characteristics of their job. The main findings tally with Card and Krueger’s (1995) recent somewhat puzzling empirical evidence about the effects of changes in minimum wage. I find that the effects of changes in the minimum wage on employment are li…
The Wounds That Do Not Heal: The Lifetime Scar of Youth Unemployment
This paper uses UK administrative data to study the long‐term effects of unemployment on earnings. It is the first paper to pinpoint accurately the relative importance of the timing of employment shocks within workers’ lives. We find a strong effect of events in the first few years after entry into the labour market: each month of unemployment between ages 18 and 20 causes a permanent income loss of 1.2% per year. This scar effect of youth unempl…
Price Caps and Output Floors: A Comparison of Simple Regulatory Rules
We study in this paper a simple alternative to price cap regulation. The mechanism, which we label ‘output floor’ regulation, requires the regulated firm to supply a given level of output. This rule is as simple as price cap regulation, and performs identically when the regulated firm is a natural monopoly; however, we show that, in the presence of a competitive fringe, output floor regulation yields lower prices and stronger incentives for cost …
Price Caps and Output Floors: A Comparison of Simple Regulatory Rules
We study in this paper a simple alternative to price cap regulation. The mechanism, which we label ‘output floor’ regulation, requires the regulated firm to supply a given level of output. This rule is as simple as price cap regulation, and performs identically when the regulated firm is a natural monopoly; however, we show that, in the presence of a competitive fringe, output floor regulation yields lower prices and stronger incentives for cost …
Slot allocation: A model of competition between firms when consumers are procedurally rational
Regulation and Access Pricing: Comparison of Regulated Regimes
The statutory duties of regulators of British utilities include both the encouragement of competition and protection of consumers (through price caps). Competition depends on the terms on which new entrants can gain access to the monopolist's network. Where the incumbent in the retail market also owns the network, the regulator may determine prices in the capped and access markets separately or may make the price cap explicitly dependent on entry…
Minimum Wage Legislation, Productivity and Employment
The effects of minimum wage legislation are analysed with the assumptions that firms are able to alter the working conditions of their employees, and that workers have different preferences about the characteristics of their job. The main findings tally with Card and Krueger’s (1995) recent somewhat puzzling empirical evidence about the effects of changes in minimum wage. I find that the effects of changes in the minimum wage on employment are li…
Walras Retrouvé: Decentralized Trading Mechanisms and the Competitive Price
We extend the standard analysis of decentralized markets to allow for the possibility that traders interact simultaneously with more than one trader on the opposite side of the market. In contrast with the literature, we reconcile the Walrasian equilibrium with the outcome of decentralized strategic trade: we show that there exist generic matching technologies that determine local market conditions such that, as market frictions vanish, the equil…
Education Policies: Equity, Efficiency and Voting Equilibrium
This paper investigates the effects of two specific forms of intervention in the market for education: an ability test for admission to university and a subsidy to tuition fees financed through general taxation. Both these measures enhance equality of opportunity, but their equity and efficiency effects are ambiguous. This ambiguity is reflected in the political economy equilibrium which would emerge as the result of voting on the level of the ab…
Education Matters: Selected Essays by Alan B. Krueger
Constitutional Design and Investment in Cooperatives and Investor‐Owned Enterprises
This paper studies the role of the corporate governance system in cooperatives and in investor‐owned enterprises. We abstract from all possible differences between the two systems except the type of majority needed to take decisions: this is one‐head‐one‐vote for cooperatives and proportional to capital invested in investor‐owned firms. We show that the institutional form chosen matters for the initial investment decision of the agents: in partic…
Must Try Harder: Evaluating the Role of Effort in Educational Attainment
The efforts exerted by children, parents, and schools affect the outcome of the education process. We build this idea into a theoretical model where the effort exerted by the three groups of agents is simultaneously determined as a Nash equilibrium. The empirical analysis tests the model using the British National Child Development Study and finds support for this idea. We identify which factors affect educational attainment directly and which in…
The source of differences in population distributions
The demand for tobacco in post-unification Italy
The desegregating effect of school tracking
Conspicuous Consumption
Incentives and Careers in Academia: Theory and Empirical Analysis
We study career concerns in italian academia. We mold our empirical analysis on the standard model of contests, formalized in the multiunit all-pay auction. The number of posts, the number of applicants, and the relative importance of the criteria for promotion determine academics' effort and output. In Italian universities, incentives operate only through promotion, and all appointment panels are drawn from strictly separated and relatively narr…
Effects of passive smoking on prenatal and infant development: Lessons from the past
Have you Read This? An Empirical Comparison of the British REF Peer Review and the Italian VQR Bibliometric Algorithm
This paper determines the assessment of publications submitted to the UK research evaluation carried out in 2014, the REF, which would have resulted if they had been assessed with the bibliometric algorithm used by the Italian evaluation agency, ANVUR, for its evaluation of the research of Italian universities. We find extremely high correlations between the two assessment approaches
The Wounds That Do Not Heal: The Lifetime Scar of Youth Unemployment
This paper uses UK administrative data to study the long‐term effects of unemployment on earnings. It is the first paper to pinpoint accurately the relative importance of the timing of employment shocks within workers’ lives. We find a strong effect of events in the first few years after entry into the labour market: each month of unemployment between ages 18 and 20 causes a permanent income loss of 1.2% per year. This scar effect of youth unempl…
School autonomy and pupils’ performance: Academy conversion in English primary schools
Can boarding schools help looked after and vulnerable children improve academic attainment
The education of children in statutory care, or at the edge of care, is a serious concern for governments and policymakers. How to promote educational opportunities for these children can involve challenging and often contentious proposals. In this paper, we study one proposal put into practice in England: the provision to children who are in statutory care, or at the edge of care, with the opportunity to attend an independent boarding school. Th…
Remote working and the new geography of local service spending
Remote working has rapidly become the new norm in many sectors, at least some of the time. Remote working changes where workers spend much of their time and the geographical location of demand, particularly for local personal services (LPS). Our main contribution is to systematically quantify this change for England and Wales using a new nationally representative survey of nearly 35,000 working‐age adults, which captures (pre‐pandemic) LPS spendi…
Economics (15 works) · Microeconomics (9 works) · Computer Science (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Business (5 works) · Industrial organization (5 works) · Psychology (5 works) · School Choice and Performance (5 works) · Political science (4 works) · Demographic economics (3 works)