Senior Lecturer

Dr Veruska Oppedisano

V.Oppedisano@westminster.ac.uk

Veruska Oppedisano

Veruska Oppedisano is Senior Lecturer at the University of Westminster and Research Associate at the Institute for Fiscal Studies. She has extensive experience in the evaluation of programmes that foster human capital and health outcomes. She has an ongoing interest in mental health issues and is currently working on a project that aim to assess the feasibility of meditation in primary schools. She has a PhD in Economics from the University of Turin.

Discover the projects Veruska Oppedisano is a part of

PROJECTS

Ministry of Justice Evaluation of New Prisons Programme

The prison population has increased significantly in the 2020s, prompting the Prison Capacity Portfolio (PCP) to aim for 20,000 additional prison places during the decade. This initiative not only...

Out of sight: missing school and life outcomes for young people

In partnership with FFT Education Datalab, CER researchers have been awarded a new grant from the Nuffield Foundation. The CER research team includes Richard Dorsett, Veruska Oppedisano, Gerda Buchmueller...

SAFE project

The SAFE (Support, Attend, Fulfil, Exceed) Taskforces project is a new programme introduced in the 2022/23 academic year by the Department of Education. It aims to protect young people...

The impact of exclusion on peers’ education and labour market outcomes

Studies have found that excluding a pupil from school harms their education and employment prospects and increases their chance of engaging in criminal activity. However, evidence from other countries...

Veruska Oppedisano's Published Works

PUBLICATION

Journal

Higher Education Expansion and Unskilled Labour Market Outcomes

The increasing demand for higher education reduces the supply and changes the composition of unskilled secondary school graduates, and it may therefore affect their labour market outcomes. However, there is little empirical evidence on these effects. This paper analyses...

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What Are the Causes of Educational Inequality and its Evolution over Time? Evidence from PISA

This paper provides evidence on the sources of differences in inequality in educational scores and their evolution over time in four European countries. Using Programme for International Student Assessment data from the 2000 and the 2006 waves, the paper...

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Should Cash Transfer be Conditional? Conditionality, Preventive Care, and Health Outcomes

We study a Conditional Cash Transfer program in which the cash transfers to the mother only depend on the fulfillment of the national preventive visit schedule by her children born before she registered in the program. We estimate that...

Meet our other team members

Peter Urwin

Centre Director

Alex Bowyer

Research Fellow

Gerda Buchmueller

Research Fellow

Franz Buscha

Professor of Economics

Richard Dorsett

Professor of Economic Evaluation

Emma Gorman

Principal Research Fellow

Kalyan Kumar Kameshwara

Research Fellow

Fatima Maatwk

Elisabeth Michielsens

Principal Lecturer

Veruska Oppedisano

Senior Lecturer

Frankie Saundry

Research Associate

Richard Saundry

Principal Research Fellow

Sylvia Snijders

Senior Lecturer

Min Zhang

Research Fellow

Professor Peter Urwin

Centre Director

Alex Bowyer

Research Fellow

Dr Gerda Buchmueller

Research Fellow

Dr Franz Buscha

Professor of Economics

Professor Richard Dorsett

Professor of Economic Evaluation

Dr Emma Gorman

Principal Research Fellow

Kalyan Kumar Kameshwara

Research Fellow

Dr Fatima Maatwk

Lecturer

Dr Elisabeth Michielsens

Principal Lecturer

Dr Veruska Oppedisano

Senior Lecturer

Frankie Saundry

Research Associate

Richard Saundry

Principal Research Fellow

Dr Sylvia Snijders

Senior Lecturer

Dr Min Zhang

Research Fellow

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