Luca De Benedictis (Mercatorum University)
Marco Delogu, Fernanda Gutiérrez Amaros, Simone Nobili and Gabriele Ruiu
We examine how local economic shocks shape human capital formation by studying the effects of mass layoffs on university students in Italy. Using population-wide administrative data on university enrolment matched to geographically localised mass layoff events, we exploit staggered employment loss across municipalities in a difference-in-differences design.