This paper analyses the impact of teacher gender towards students’ test results in a blinded Math test administered to students in Catalonia (Spain). The data for this analysis are drawn from a sample of secondary school students who participated in an international blind-test known as the “Mathematical Kangaroo” in 2008....

Las estadísticas comúnmente utilizadas para analizar el mercado de trabajo proporcionan las variaciones netas en el número de trabajadores empleados (o desempleados). Por ejemplo, observamos una caída en el desempleo de 10 mil personas que puede deberse tanto a que se crean 10 mil puestos de trabajo y que ninguna...

In line with the literature that considers that transaction costs, asset specificity and incomplete contracts play a key role in the “make or buy decision”, this paper seeks to discriminate the characteristics of firms that make them more or less likely to integrate their activities in a foreign country. We...

This paper estimates the impact of BMI, obesity and overweight on direct medical costs. We apply panel data econometrics and use a two-part model with a longitudinal dataset of medical and administrative records of patients in primary and secondary healthcare centres in Spain followed up over seven consecutive years (2004-...

A partir de su primera edición, en 2000, el programa de evaluación educativa PISA, de la Organización para la Cooperación y el Desarrollo (OCDE), ha supuesto, probablemente, el principal factor de “agitación” de las políticas educativas. Ello es así desde al menos tres puntos de vista: el mediático, el de...

This paper examines the main contributions of universities to the economic growth of Spanish regions. It calculates the separate effects of the different university functions on the regional economy, namely the creation of human capital, research and technology transfer. It includes a panel data set with the key variables of...