This book includes 25 peer-reviewed short papers submitted to the Scientific Opening Conference titled “Statistics and Information Systems for Policy Evaluation”, aimed at promoting new statistical methods and applications for the evaluation of policies and organized by the Association for Applied Statistics (ASA) and the Department of Statistics, Computer Science, Applications DiSIA “G. Parenti” of the University of Florence, jointly with the partners AICQ (Italian Association for Quality Culture), AICQ-CN (Italian Association for Quality Culture North and Centre of Italy), AISS (Italian Academy for Six Sigma), ASSIRM (Italian Association for Marketing, Social and Opinion Research), Comune di Firenze, the SIS – Italian Statistical Society, Regione Toscana and Valmon – Evaluation & Monitoring.
 
                                    University of Florence, Italy - ORCID: 0000-0002-5816-2964
University of Padua, Italy - ORCID: 0000-0001-8657-8361
University of Florence, Italy - ORCID: 0000-0001-9952-0396
Luigi Fabbris, Manuela Scioni
Does an entrepreneurial spirit animate fresh graduates in their work-seeking during uncertain times? 
                    pp.11-16
Rosa Arboretti, Riccardo Ceccato, Luigi Salmaso
Nonparametric methods for stratified C-sample designs: a case study 
                    pp.17-22
Pasquale Anselmi, Daiana Colledani, Luigi Fabbris, Egidio Robusto, Manuela Scioni
Measuring content validity of academic psychological capital and locus of control in fresh graduates 
                    pp.23-28
Giulia Vannucci, Anna Gottard, Leonardo Grilli, Carla Rampichini
Random effects regression trees for the analysis of INVALSI data 
                    pp.29-34
Valentina Tocchioni, Alessandra Petrucci, Alessandra Minello
Short-term and long-term international scientific mobility of Italian PhDs: An analysis by gender 
                    pp.35-40
Bruno Bertaccini, Riccardo Bruni, Federico Crescenzi, Beatrice Donati
Measuring logical competences and soft skills when enrolling in a university degree course 
                    pp.41-46
Rosanna Cataldo, Laura Antonucci, Corrado Crocetta, Maria Gabriella Grassia, Marina Marino
A bibliometric study of global research activity in relation to the use of partial least squares for policy evaluation 
                    pp.49-54
Alessandro Magrini
The impact of public research expenditure on agricultural productivity: evidence from developed European countries 
                    pp.55-60
Paolo Mariani, Andrea Marletta
How to become a pastry chef: a statistical analysis through the company requirements 
                    pp.61-64
Luigi Fabbris, Paolo Feltrin
Measuring the movement between employment and self-employment: a survey proposal 
                    pp.65-70
Rosanna Cataldo, Maria Gabriella Grassia, Paolo Mazzocchi, Claudio Quintano, Antonella Rocca
Innovation and sustainability: the Italian scenario 
                    pp.71-76
Claudia Segre, Serena Spagnolo, Valentina Gabella, Valentina Langella
The Financial Wellbeing Index: “Donne al quadrato” and the relevant impact measurement 
                    pp.77-82
Lucio Palazzo, Pietro Sabatino, Riccardo Ievoli
Determinants of social startups in Italy 
                    pp.85-90
Venera Tomaselli, Giulio Giacomo Cantone
Multipoint vs slider: a protocol for experiments 
                    pp.91-96
Daria Mendola, Anna Maria Parroco
Life satisfaction of refugees living in Germany 
                    pp.97-102
Cristina Davino, Marco Gherghi, Domenico Vistocco
A quantitative study to measure the family impact of e-learning 
                    pp.103-107
Corrado Cuccurullo, Luca D’Aniello, Maria Spano
Thematic atlas of Italian oncological research: the analysis of public IRCCS 
                    pp.109-114
Pietro Renzi, Alberto Franci
Frameworks and inequalities in healthcare: some applications 
                    pp.115-120
Marco D’Addario, Massimo Labra, Silvia Mari, Raffaele Matacena, Mariangela Zenga
An analysis of the transaction towards sustainable food consumption practises during the Italian lockdown for SARS-CoV-2: the experience of the Lombardy region 
                    pp.121-126
Luigi Fabbris, Alfonso Piscitelli
Wine preferences based on intrinsic attributes: A tasting experiment in Alto Adige/Südtirol province 
                    pp.129-134
Giulia Caruso, Adelia Evangelista, Stefano Antonio Gattone
Profiling visitors of a national park in Italy through unsupervised classification of mixed data 
                    pp.135-140
Gianpaolo Zammarchi, Giulia Contu, Luca Frigau
Using eye-tracking to evaluate the viewing behavior on tourist landscapes 
                    pp.141-146
Maurizio Romano, Francesco Mola, Claudio Conversano
Decomposing tourists’ sentiment from raw NL text to assess customer satisfaction 
                    pp.147-151
Carla Galluccio, Rosa Fabbricatore, Daniela Caso
Exploring the intention to walk: a study on undergraduate students using item response theory and theory of planned behaviour 
                    pp.153-158
Nicoletta D’Angelo, Mauro Ferrante, Antonino Abbruzzo, Giada Adelfio
Determinants of spatial intensity of stop locations on cruise passengers tracking data 
                    pp.159-164
Book Title
ASA 2021 Statistics and Information Systems for Policy Evaluation
Book Subtitle
Book of short papers of the opening conference
Editors
Bruno Bertaccini, Luigi Fabbris, Alessandra Petrucci
Peer Reviewed
Publication Year
2021
Copyright Information
© 2021 Author(s)
Content License
Metadata License
Publisher Name
Firenze University Press
DOI
10.36253/978-88-5518-304-8
eISBN (pdf)
978-88-5518-304-8
eISBN (xml)
978-88-5518-305-5
Series Title
Proceedings e report
Series ISSN
2704-601X
Series E-ISSN
2704-5846