Revised: 2006-05.-- Published as an article in: Journal of Population Economics, 2007, vol. 18, issue 1, pp. 165-179.

The main aim of this paper is to measure the extent to which part-time work enhances fertility for married or cohabiting women of fertile age. The study covers eleven European countries. The data used are a pool sample of five waves of the European Community Household Panel. Given that we...

Using the ECHP, we explored the determinants of having the first child in Spain. Our main goal was to study the relation between female wages and the decision to enter motherhood. Since the offered wage of non-working women is not observed, we estimate it and impute a potential wage to each...

This paper investigates the role that INTERPOL surveillance Ӡthe Mobile INTERPOL Network Database (MIND) and the Fixed INTERPOL Network Database (FIND) Ӡplayed in the War on Terror since its inception in 2005. MIND/FIND surveillance allows countries to screen people and documents...

This paper investigates the relationship between linguistic polarization and conflict in the Basque Country. During the 40 years of Francoٳ dictatorship the use of the Basque language was banned. Therefore, there may be some linguistic roots underlying the conflict in the Basque Country. We...

Building on Item Response Theory we introduce students٠optimal behavior in multiple-choice tests. Our simulations indicate that the optimal penalty is relatively high, because although correction for guessing discriminates against risk-averse subjects, this effect is small compared with the...