The aim of this paper is to analyse the distributive effects of some potential reforms in the Higher Education Financing System using a behavioural model, for the Spanish case in the new millennium. Specifically, improvements in income distribution due to some reforms in the educational policy...

From its origin, the techniques for measuring efficiency in schools have been widely applied to evaluate public expenditure in education. The aim of this study is to make a critic revision over the risks of performing efficiency analysis without considering the special characteristics of...

From the last decades of the XX century, university education has experienced a strong increase, which has been fostered by some socio-economic changes and several educational policies. In fact, Mora (1997) and Lamo de Espinosa (2000) consider that, in a short period of time, Spanish University...

El objetivo del trabajo consiste en analizar si el desajuste educativo de los progenitores afecta a los resultados educativos de los hijos. Para ello, se utilizan los microdatos de PISA-2009 para España, dado que facilita información detallada sobre el rendimiento educativo de los estudiantes,...

La calidad de la educación es uno de los principales determinantes del crecimiento económico y el desarrollo. El principal objetivo del presente documento es evaluar si la doble jornada escolar tiene efectos negativos sobre la calidad de la educación en Colombia. Para esto se estima el efecto...

El trabajo estudia los factores determinantes de la calidad de la educación pública de la ciudad de Medellín, teniendo en cuenta los resultados de las pruebas del ICFES de 2005 y 2007, enfocándose en las características del plantel docente y en el sistema de incentivos a los educadores....

This research estimates the impact of Plan Ceibal in students’ achievement at public primary school in Uruguay. Plan Ceibal is the first national model of One Laptop per Child (OLPC) which is being carried out in Uruguay since 2007 in some provinces, but reached national scale during 2009. The...

This paper analyses the changes in inequality occurred during the period 1998 – 2005. A set of results are presented in order to contribute to a better understanding of the changes in inequality. The obtained results show that important distributive effects were hidden by the apparent observed...

This paper contributes with evidence about the ex – post impact to the program of conditional cash transfer program Bono Juancito Pinto in public schools in Bolivia. In order to correctly identify the potential beneficiaries and avoid problems of endogeneity and selection bias, we evaluate the...

"La educación es considerada un factor fundamental para impulsar el desarrollo de una sociedad, especialmente por sus efectos positivos sobre el posterior desenvolvimiento del individuo en el mercado laboral y su mayor capacidad de generación de ingresos. En el caso específico de la...