Davide Azzolini

Davide Azzolini is a research fellow at the Research Institute for the Evaluation of Public Policies of the Bruno Kessler Foundation and an Affiliated Scholar with the Urban Institute, Washington DC.
Davide is committed to conducting social research that produces better and more usable evidence to improve policymaking in the field of education. He is particularly interested in topics such as educational inequality, financial aid, and educational technology.
He was a visiting scholar at the Urban Institute, a visiting student at the Free University of Berlin and research collaborator at the Office of Population Research of Princeton University.
Davide has a Ph.D. in Sociology and Social Research from the University of Trento and a master’s degree in public policy from COREP, Turin.
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August 7, 2025The first Italian scientific study on the effectiveness of summer learning programs has been carried out by FBK-IRVAPPThe study, recently published in Educational Researcher, involved over a thousand children who took part in the "Educational Archipelago" project, promoted by Save the Children and the Agnelli Foundation in nine Italian cities
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September 28, 2021200 SME CHALLENGE: the UXCHALLENGE FORMAT by HIT-TRENTINO EXPORTED THROUGHOUT EUROPEFinal event (online) on October 7, 2021, with an analysis of the results and impact of the European project by FBK-IRVAPP researcher Davide Azzolini
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October 12, 2020Matching family savings to increase college educationIRVAPP researchers describe the college savings accounts programs and present the promising results of a pilot project they have evaluated
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January 7, 2017IRVAPP WINTER SCHOOL 2017 – Fundamentals and Methods for Impact Evaluation of Public PoliciesFrom February 13 to 18 will take place the school organized by FBK-IRVAPP (Institute for evaluative research of public policies) at the Venetian Institute of Sciences, Letters and Arts in Venice.