El presente documento pretende recoger evidencia sobre algunos de los factores que explican el proceso de segregación por género, o proceso de feminización, en las profesiones universitarias. La evidencia no resultó demasiado robusta. Las estimaciones apoyan, aunque de manera débil, las...

El presente trabajo tiene como objetivo estimar el impacto de determinadas perturbaciones sobre una economía pequeña y abierta. Las elevadas fluctuaciones de la economía uruguaya motivan el esfuerzo por caracterizar la naturaleza de los shocks y de su propagación a determinadas variables...

Specialized courts have become a key component of the legal reform packages implemented in civil law countries, particularly, in the area of family law. One argument for this policy is that they are able to reach a decision faster than the regular courts, which are normally congested. We use...

This paper reviews the existing law and economics literature on crime, noting where various models might apply to the terror context. Specifically, it focuses on two strands of the literature, deterrence and incapacitation. Challenging the conventional application of the basic rational agent...

Specialized courts have become a key component of the legal reform packages implemented in civil law countries, particularly, in the area of family law. One argument for this policy is that they are able to reach a decision faster than the regular courts, which are normally congested. We use...

This paper analyzes the regulation of access to, and activity of, the legal and medical professions. A critical assessment is offered of the economic theory of the regulation of professions in relation to the key issues of: (a) Why regulate, (b) How to regulate, and (c) What to regulate. We...

This paper provides the first evidence on the dynamics of immigrant students' achievement following their migration to Spain. Using the data from 2003, 2006 and 2009 wave of the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA), we show that immigrant students tend to perform significantly...