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Tommaso Agasisti

Researcher at Polytechnic University of Milan

Publications -  201
Citations -  4052

Tommaso Agasisti is an academic researcher from Polytechnic University of Milan. The author has contributed to research in topics: Higher education & Data envelopment analysis. The author has an hindex of 34, co-authored 178 publications receiving 3218 citations. Previous affiliations of Tommaso Agasisti include Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development & University of Barcelona.

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Beyond frontiers: comparing the efficiency of higher education decision‐making units across more than one country

TL;DR: In this article, the authors employ Data Envelopment Analysis to compute the technical efficiency of Italian and English higher education institutions and find that institutions in both countries are typically very efficient.
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Comparing Efficiency in a Cross-Country Perspective: The Case of Italian and Spanish State Universities

TL;DR: In this article, an efficiency analysis of Italian and Spanish universities is conducted; as well as from a comparative perspective, the efficiency scores are obtained using Data Envelopment Analysis, which demonstrate a good average efficiency in both countries relative to each "country-specific" frontier; but when compared together, Italian universities seem relatively more efficient.
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Comparing efficiency in a cross-country perspective: the case of Italian and Spanish state universities

TL;DR: In this paper, an efficiency analysis of Italian and Spanish universities is conducted; as well as from a comparative perspective, the efficiency scores are obtained using data envelopment analysis, demonstrating a good average efficiency in both countries relative to each “country-specific” frontier; but when compared together, Italian universities seem relatively more efficient.
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Are we wasting public money? No! The effects of grants on Italian university students' performances

TL;DR: In this article, the effect of financial aid on academic performance of first-year students at the Politecnico di Milano (Italy) was investigated using a Propensity Score Matching approach.
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Heterogeneity and the Evaluation of Efficiency: the Case of Italian Universities

TL;DR: In this article, a random parameters stochastic frontier model is applied to Italian data in order to evaluate the cost function and efficiency of higher education institutions, which yields useful information about inter-institutional variation in cost structure and technical efficiency.