The debate over private versus public provision of schooling remains contentious. A large literature has developed focusing on the relative educational performance of different school types. Beyond these important outcomes, variations in schooling may have direct effects on students’...

The aim of this paper is to test whether the distribution of students by social, cultural and racial characteristics is homogeneous between Spanish public schools (PS) and publicly subsidised private schools (PSPS) or whether segregation exists between the profile of pupils attending each type...

La región de América Latina se caracteriza por tener las tasas más elevadas de violencia criminal. La elevada violencia, además de traducirse en graves consecuencias sociales, conlleva efectos económicos trascendentales. El presente trabajo trata de profundizar en estos efectos. El mismo...