We analyse how grade distributions change when higher education evaluations transition online and disentangle the mechanisms that help to explain the change observed in students' results. We leverage administrative panel data, survey data and data on course plans from a large undergraduate degree at the University of Barcelona. We show...

Las economías de mercado vienen acompañadas inevitablemente de desigualdades económicas. Sin embargo, la desigualdad económica de hoy no depende totalmente de la generación actual, sino también de la desigualdad económica preexistente. La desigualdad persiste a lo largo de las generaciones y supone un desafío para nuestras sociedades. Primero, por razones...

The Gale-Shapley algorithm is one of the most popular college allocation mechanism around the world. A crucial policy question in its setting is designing admission priorities for students, understanding how they disadvantage certain demographic groups, and whether these di_erences are related to di_erences in college performance potential (i.e., whether these...

Utilizing comprehensive administrative data from Brazil, we investigate the impact of peer effects on wages, considering both within-gender and cross-gender dynamics. Since the average productivity of both individuals and their peers is unobservable, we estimate these values using worker fixed effects while accounting for occupational and firm sorting. Our findings...

We implemented a randomized control trial in Georgia to study how labels and food vouchers affect household expenditure among low-income recipients of unconditional cash transfers. Households were randomly assigned to receive only an unconditional cash transfer, a label indicating an amount intended for children’s expenses in addition to the transfer,...

Se entiende generalmente que el sentido cívico de una sociedad significa el respeto que muestran sus ciudadanos hacia las normas de la vida colectiva, su implicación en la definición de estas normas y la prioridad que otorgan al interés general por delante de los intereses privados. En las democracias modernas,...