This paper analyses the impact of teacher gender towards students’ test results in a blinded Math test administered to students in Catalonia (Spain). The data for this analysis are drawn from a sample of secondary school students who participated in an international blind-test known as the...

Decentralization is believed to constitute the optimal institutional arrangement for the provision of public expenditure. In contrast to centralization, it is thought to offer a better match between the provision of public services and individual preferences. We test this fundamental hypothesis...

Purpose: We investigate the impact of a specific macroeconomic shock induced by the SARS-COV-2 outbreak, the strict lockdown imposed in Spain on the 14th of March 2020.Methods: We use fortnightly purchase data on over 50,000 households from a supermarket chain in Catalonia from March to June...

Attention-Defcit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) is young children's most common mental health disorder. We aim to provide causal estimates of the diferential costs for the non-adult population with ADHD. We used longitudinal administrative data covering the non-adult population over fve years and...