In this paper we analyse the observed systematic differences in costs for teaching hospitals (THhenceforth) in Spain … teaching on hospital expenditure are well grounded. We focus on the estimation of the impact of teaching status on average cost …

In this paper we analyse the observed systematic differences in costs for teaching hospitals (THhenceforth) in Spain … teaching on hospital expenditure are well grounded. We focus on the estimation of the impact of teaching status on average cost …

efficiency and promoting policy innovation without harming the essential principle of ‘equal access for equal need’ that grounds … organisational innovation while promoting activity and efficiency. In addition to this pure ‘managerial decentralisation’ process …, Spain is of particular interest as a result of the specific regional NHS decentralisation that started in the early 1980’s …

history. Philip II of Spain entered into hundreds of contracts whose value and due date depended on verifiable, exogenous …

Spain). Second, by considering the influence of unobserved heterogeneity in the estimation of the effect of our (carefully … strong impact on labour market decisions in Spain. Unemployment regulations are shown to be particularly influential for … especially interesting instance: the reform of early retirement provisions undertaken in Spain in 2002. We use a difference …

I document extremely son-biased sex ratios at birth among Asian-born parents in Spain. Using data on the universe of … registered births in Spain during 2007- 2012, I show that there are 117 boys per 100 girls born to Indian parents, compared with …

first. Finally the trend of disability in Spain seems not to change among years and regional differences are not found. …

Philip II of Spain accumulated debts equivalent to 60% of GDP. He also defaulted four times on his short-term loans …