CEP | People | Vincenzo Scrutinio

Biography

Dr Vincenzo Scrutinio is an Assistant Professor at the University of Bologna. He got his Phd from the London School of Economics in October 2019. His research interests lie in Labour Economics, Policy Evaluation and Education Economics.

Current areas of research include:

Policy Evaluation: Lockdown, Essential Sectors, and Covid-19: Lessons from the Italian Case
Friday Morning Fever. Evidence from a randomized experiment on Sick Leave Monitoring in the Public Sector
Export Management and Labor Demand. Evidence from a Policy

Publications

CEP discussion papers

Public sector performance disclosure: salary and career outcomes for top managers and employees

Public sector organizations around the world are held to account on the basis of objective measures of performance. This paper investigates, for the first time, the impact of subjective school inspection ratings on labor... Read more...

Iftikhar Hussain, Vincenzo Scrutinio and Shqiponja Telhaj

10 June 2025

Blog

Does Domestic Competition Help EU Firms Compete Abroad?

In a survey of nearly 400 European firms that export abroad, Elena Argentesi, Livia De Simone, Stephan Paetz, Vincenzo Scrutinio find that most firms believe that competition forces them to produce cheaper and higher qua... Read more...

Elena Argentesi, Livia De Simone, Stephan Paetz and Vincenzo Scrutinio

11 October 2024

CEP discussion papers

Managerial input and firm performance. Evidence from a policy experiment

We study the effects of a subsidy program designed to boost small and medium enterprises' export capabilities through a Temporary Export Manager (TEM), hired for at least 6 months to provide consulting on how to reach fo... Read more...

Francesco Manaresi, Alessandro Palma, Luca Salvatici and Vincenzo Scrutinio

05 October 2022

CEP discussion papers

A few Euro more: benefit generosity and the optimal path of unemployment benefits

In this paper, we exploit the provision of higher UB at different points of the unemployment spell to shed light on the relative cost of insurance at different horizons after the job loss. First, we exploit a double cap ... Read more...

Anna D'Ambrosio and Vincenzo Scrutinio

03 March 2022

Journal article

Lockdown, essential sectors, and Covid-19: lessons from Italy

This paper investigates how economic activity impacted Covid-19 infections and all-cause mortality. To this purpose, we exploit the distribution of essential sectors, which were exempted from a national lockdown enacted ... Read more...

Paolo Naticchioni, Vincenzo Scrutinio and Edoardo di Porto

01 January 2022

Journal article

Teacher turnover: Effects, mechanisms and organisational responses

This paper contributes to the understanding of the causal relationship between teacher turnover and student performance. We extend this research by examining the mechanisms through which turnover affects student learning... Read more...

Stephen Gibbons, Vincenzo Scrutinio and Shqiponja Telhaj

01 December 2021

CEP discussion papers

Friday morning fever. Evidence from a randomized experiment on sick leave monitoring in the public sector

Absent providers of key public services, such as schooling and health, are a major problem in both developed and developing countries. This paper provides the first analysis of a population-wide controlled field experime... Read more...

Tito Boeri, Paolo Naticchioni, Vincenzo Scrutinio and Edoardo di Porto

21 May 2021

CEP discussion papers

Partial lockdown and the spread of Covid-19: lessons from the Italian case

This paper investigates the effect of exemption of essential sectors from the lockdown enacted in Italy in Spring 2020 on COVID-19 infections and mortality. We exploit the distribution of the density of essential workers... Read more...

Edoardo di Porto, Paolo Naticchioni and Vincenzo Scrutinio

01 October 2020

CEP discussion papers

Teacher turnover: does it matter for pupil achievement?

We add to a small literature examining whether teacher turnover affects academic achievement, focussing on age-16, state secondary school students, using a unique dataset of linked students and teachers in England. We ad... Read more...

Stephen Gibbons, Vincenzo Scrutinio and Shqiponja Telhaj

12 February 2018

CentrePiece - The magazine of the Centre for Economic Performance

Does teacher turnover affect young people's academic achievement?

Do educational results suffer in schools where there is a high turnover among the teaching staff? Shqiponja Telhaj and colleagues explore this question by analysing data from all state secondary schools in England.... Read more...

Stephen Gibbons, Vincenzo Scrutinio and Shqiponja Telhaj

01 March 2017

CEP discussion papers

Colocation and knowledge diffusion: evidence from million dollar plants

This paper uses the entry of large corporations into U.S. counties during the 1980s and 1990s to analyse the effect of plant opening on knowledge spillovers to local inventors. We use a difference-in-differences identifi... Read more...

Christian Fons-Rosen, Vincenzo Scrutinio and Katalin Szemeredi

03 August 2016