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This paper investigates whether or not research quality is significantly associated with a university\u2019s ability to attract students from other provinces in Italy. First-university enrolments of students over the period 2003\u201311 are regressed on universities\u2019 research-quality indicators computed from various bibliometric databases using fixed-effects gravity models. The estimates suggest that research performance is a significant predictor of student enrolment, with estimated elasticities between 0.013 and 0.059, depending on the indicator used