We study the effect of standardized external tests on students’ academic outcomes. We exploit the fact that only one of the 17 Spanish regions started doing and publishing the results of standardized tests in 2005 to apply a difference-in-difference methodology, using outcomes of the PISA...

Evaluamos un programa que introdujo la educación bilingüe en inglés y castellano en educación primaria en algunos colegios públicos de la Comunidad de Madrid en el año 2004. En este programa, los estudiantes no solo estudian inglés como idioma extranjero, sino que el inglés es la lengua...

En este capítulo analizamos el aprendizaje del francés como lengua extranjera de los alumnos de España a partir de los datos del Estudio Europeo de Competencia Lingüística (EECL de aquí en adelante). En España, la Ley Orgánica de Educación establece que los alumnos deben cursar...

Estudiamos el efecto de pruebas estandarizadas externas sobre los resultados académicos de los estudiantes. Explotamos el hecho de que sólo una de las 17 regiones españolas empezó realizando y publicando los resultados de las pruebas estandarizadas en 2005 para aplicar una metodología de...

This study reviews the recent literature on the economics of education, with a special focus on policy interventions. It also attempts to uncover the importance of school inputs, social environment and parental background on the outcomes of a standardized exam for all sixth grade students in the...

This paper addresses the role played by Public Sector (PS) employment across different OECD labour markets in explaining: (i) gender differences regarding choices to work in either PS or private sector, and (ii) subsequent changes in female labour market outcomes. To do so, we provide some...

Why is R&D spending so low in Spanish firms? One possible answer may lie in a small contribution of innovative investments to value creation at the firm level. When pulling together complementary sources of spending data and related evidence to measure these investments, we observe that R&D is...

The policies under analysis are set out in Spanish Law 39/99 and Austrian Law Nr. 38/2004. In essence both policies were directed at allowing parents to work part-time if they had children under 7 years old, with an equivalent wage reduction. Furthermore, those workers who decided to use the law...

This paper presents a model of self-fulfilling expectations by firms and households which generates multiplicity of equilibria in pay and housework time allocation for ex-ante identical spouses. Multiplicity arises from statistical discrimination exerted by firms in the provision of paid-for...

This paper analyzes the gender gap in the performance–pay component of hourly wages received by workers in Spain using detailed information drawn from a large wage survey for 2006. Under the assumption that performance pay is determined in a more competitive fashion than the remaining wage...