2019/01: Bilingual education and school choice: a case study of public secondary schools in the Spanish region of Madrid
In the academic year of 2004-2005 the Spanish region of Madrid began to implement a bilingual educational programme in public schools. Currently, 45% of the public educational system (primary and secondary) participates in the bilingual programme of the Community of Madrid (hereinafter MBP). One of the objectives sought by this programme, but not the only one, is to make the study of a foreign language accessible to students from economically less favoured families (who have greater difficulty in meeting the cost of private language tutoring). Consequently, our study aims to analyse whether, as proposed, students from disadvantaged socioeconomic backgrounds effectively participate in the MBP. To comply with this objective, we estimate a model directed at identifying which factors influence the selection of a bilingual public school by families.
Workshop on Political Economy
June 6-7, 2019
Workshop on Economics of Taxation & Social Expenditure
June 4-5, 2019
2018/23: Wage differentials by bargaining regime in Spain (2002-2014). An analysis using matched employer-employee data
This research examines wage differentials associated to different collective bargaining regimes in Spain and their evolution over time based on matched employer-employee microdata. The primary objective is to analyse the wage differentials associated to the presence of a firm-level agreement and how they have evolved, taking into account the changes in the economic cycle and the recent labour reform of 2012. The second objective of the study is to examine the impact on wages of an absence of a collective agreement.
2018/22: Hit where it hurts – healthcare access and intimate partner violence
We exploit a change in the public healthcare entitlement of undocumented migrants in Spain to investigate the causal link between withdrawal of healthcare and changes in help-seeking behaviour of women experiencing intimate partner violence (IPV). We contribute to the new literature modelling domestic violence by taking a novel look at the role of human capital in decisions to seek help when in violent relationships. We use a difference-in-differences (DiD) methodology to compare the number of foreign applicants for protection orders before and after the reform using Spanish applicants as the counterfactual.
Info IEB Número 30, Desembre 2018
El rendiment dels estudiants, especialment a la universitat, és un fort condicionant de les decisions individuals i de les oportunitats futures en el mercat laboral. La més que demostrada desigualtat de gènere en els resultats laborals (vegeu Blau i Kahn, 2010 per a una revisió recent) posa de relleu la necessitat d’entendre els potencials determinants de les diferències de gènere en el rendiment acadèmic per tal de mitigar-los i promoure la igualtat de gènere en l’educació i, com a resultat, també en les oportunitats laborals.
