The outbreak of COVID-19 in 2020 inhibited face-to-face education and constrained exam taking. In many countries worldwide, high-stakes exams happening at the end of the school year determine college admissions. This paper investigates the impact of using historical data of school and high-stakes exams results to train a model to...

Worldwide, gang proliferation is fought mostly with tough punishment strategies such as sweeps. In this paper, I study their causal effect on crime for arrested individuals and known peers following a difference-in-differences strategy. I also take advantage of the network structure I retrieved to assess peer effects and identify key...

Cross-border medical care, defined as care facilitated by a local health provider under pre-established regional agreements as in the case of EU citizens accessing care within EU countries, has been on the rise. Unlike medical tourism, typically sought by patients through their own volition and paid for out-of-pocket, cross-border medical...

Bullying is a problem that affects children and teenagers around the world and its repercussions can endure throughout adult life. Its prevalence is, in part, a product of the lack of information and the paucity of studies which analyse the wide-ranging consequences for the individuals involved. The main objective of...

Malauradament enmig dels països més desenvolupats, els països que tenen un estat del benestar més consolidat, es poden trobar bosses de pobresa, desigualtat i exclusió social. Aquest IEB Report pretén analitzar la situació actual de la pobresa a Espanya i Europa. Si bé les diferències entre països són notables, la...

L’Institut d’Economia de Barcelona (IEB) acaba de presentar l’IEB Report 3/20, titulat “Regularització d’immigrants indocumentats: què en sabem?” en què sistematitza, a partir dels treballs acadèmics existents, l’evidència empírica dels efectes socioeconòmics de les regularitzacions d’immigrants sobre les economies d’acollida.