Estimating the impact of changing school inputs on student performance is often difficult because these inputs are endogenously determined. We investigate a quasi-experiment that altered the number of instructional days prior to a nationwide test in Mexico. Our exogenous source of variation...

El presente trabajo realiza una descripción detallada de los principales ranking universitarios, nacionales e internacionales existentes en la actualidad, así como un análisis crítico de sus características poniendo de manifiesto la necesidad de elaborar un ranking nacional por Titulaciones...

The growing use of on-line educational content and related video services has changed the way people access education, share knowledge, and possibly make life decisions. In this paper, we characterize how video content affects individual decision-making and willingness to share in the context of...

Elite economics PhD programs aim to train graduate students for a lifetime of academic research. This paper asks how advising affects graduate students' post-PhD research productivity. Advising is highly concentrated: at the eight highly-selective schools in our study, a minority of advisors do...

In light of population ageing, globalisation, automation, and the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, Thailand’s labour market is being significantly reshaped, and so are the skills required for higher employability. This paper analyses the capacity of Thailand’s education and training system...

El objetivo de este trabajo es analizar los principales determinantes de la formación en cuestiones medioambientales de los jóvenes españoles a partir de la base de datos del programa PISA (Programme for International Student Assessment), cuya oleada de 2006 ofrece un gran volumen de...

En este trabajo analizamos la educación en países europeos, tanto globalmente como desde una perspectiva de género, y utilizamos la información que se deriva de este análisis para comparar la situación educativa que dichos países presentan con la que observamos en diversos indicadores que...