Este artículo reporta un ranking que jerarquiza las 39 universidades públicas estatales en México. Las variables son: número de profesores de tiempo completo, profesores con posgrado, profesores con perfil deseable y miembros del Sistema Nacional de Investigadores. Se integraron cinco grupos...

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...

La inequidad educativa es un tema ampliamente abordado por la literatura, siendo diversos los factores que influyen en el desigual rendimiento de los estudiantes. En ese orden, el objetivo del trabajo es contrastar la hipótesis de que el género es determinante de los logros educativos, siendo...

We provide evidence on a gender bias in risk aversion among students of economics in Spain. In a sample of 2278 multiple choice exams with penalization for errors, women consistently answer less questions, what could damage females’ scores. We also provide evidence on a different gender bias...

The effect of a child’s peers has long been regarded as an important factor in affecting their educational outcomes. I use exogenous changes in the proportion of girls within English school cohorts to estimate the causal effect of a more female peer group. I find significant negative effects...

This paper explores whether international differences in rates of return to education reflect variations in the level of risk associated with educational investments. We find no consistent evidence supporting that international differences in the rates of return to education are explained by...

This paper analyzes the education attainment of girls and boys cohabiting with parents aged 16 to 25 in Spain during the period 2002—2013, and focuses on those living in vulnerable households. Multinomial logit estimates show that the educational attainment of boys is more linked to household...

The aim of this paper is twofold. It intends to examine to what extent the school performance of immigrant students depends on their cultural background as well as to explain the link between the intergenerational transfer of cultural capital and the educational achievement. Using PISA data 2003...

El propósito de este artículo es determinar en qué medida el capital humano contribuye a explicar la competitividad de una economía. Para ello, en primer lugar, analizamos la evolución de dichas variables en los países africanos, para lo cual empleamos una variable "stock" de capital...

This paper investigates whether teenagers are educationally advantaged if their parents are educators, using data from the Program for International Student Assessment (PISA) for Great Britain and Ireland from 2000. Examining whether teachers’ children do better at tests of reading ability,...