Spanish Abstract: Cualquier docente que se precie cuidará que los estudiantes a quienes imparta sus enseñanzas estudien, trabajen y, sobre todo, comprendan el contenido de su disciplina al objeto de asimilar, de la mejor manera posible, su contenido. Pese a los iniciales obstáculos que caben...

In this paper we try to explain the academic performance of a sample of children starting their first year at public schools in 1999 in Montevideo, Uruguay. We are mainly interested in the effect of pre-school education on the children’s academic results. We found fairly strong empirical...

The aim of this paper is to study how much sensitive efficiency scores are when different approaches proposed in the literature are used to include exogenous factors in efficiency analysis. Specifically, we will concentrate on two crucial issues. One the one hand, although we have an extensive...

El documento evalúa los efectos de las remesas en un grupo de indicadores de desarrollo económico en el Perú. El crecimiento sostenido del flujo de estos recursos durante las últimas dos décadas justifica nuestro estudio. Se estudia la contribución de las remesas en tres aspectos: el...

This paper provides original empirical evidence on the evolution of education inequality for all Latin American countries over the decades of 1990 and 2000. The analysis covers a wide range of issues on differences in educational outcomes and opportunities across the population, including...

In this work we study the effect on the current expending of different models of managing the university budget, establishing different expenditure control policies, both in the way of managing and when introducing technological improvements. A panel data of expenditures in several basic...

The paper provides a review of laws and other actions that have been undertaken in recent years in Argentina to improve education. Review is focused on the Province of Tucumán, where he studied education policy and some of their results. It analyzes the contents of the Federal Education Law No....

This research deals with universities in Spain in the last decades of the twentieth century, after which there was a democratization of access to these studies and an increase in female enrollment. Obviously, there was a link between the university and the family income of students, although it...

The present study deals with the shift of the Spanish university funding system whose main source of income was, above all, the tithe shares, which eventually changed into the academic fees. The study of the evolution of the income and expenditure rates in the University of Salamanca allows us...