The ‘gravity’ of quality: research quality and the attractiveness of universities in Italy

What is it about?

Do university students take into account a university's research performance when they decide where to enrol?

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Why is it important?

By using some bibliometric indicators to proxy a university's research performance, we do find that in Italy better-performing universities attract more student enrollments. This is important as it highlights some potential positive spillovers of better research on universities' attractiveness.