The assessment of the impact of different factors on the education production function has been on the Economics of Education agenda since the Coleman Report of 1966. Since then, the empirical evidence has sufficiently established the importance of the socioeconomic situation of pupils (and...

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to provide a better understanding of the links between labor market conditions and academic performance by disentangling the effects of unemployment. The contribution of this study is, therefore, threefold: first, it provides new evidence on the link...

It is well known that young people are major consumers of screen media and that their peers are one of the principal determinants of youth behavior as regards their patterns of consumption and other activities. On the basis of these premises, the purpose of this paper is to analyze the influence...

Este trabajo tiene como objetivo analizar los determinantes del consumo de libros y publicaciones periódicas en España. En concreto, se cuantifica la influencia que factores familiares, socioeconómicos y geográficos ejercen tanto sobre la decisión de compra de libros y publicaciones...

This paper is aimed at presenting a new intergenerational mobility index that (a) combines the intergenerational elasticity and the R-squared of the intergenerational regression and (b) enables the expression of the total degree of mobility as the weighted sum of mobility with respect to both...