CEP | People | Dr Vincenzo Scrutinio

Biography

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

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

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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