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Is there a Link between BMI and Adolescents’ Educational Choices and Expectations?
One of the most claimed links in the health and education literature is that education prevents from the risk of overweight, and the negative link between education and BMI is up to now out of questioning. More educated ...
Do schools discriminate against single parents? Evidence from a randomized correspondence experiment
Single parenthood is on the rise everywhere in the world. Previous studies show that acceptance of single parent headed households is increasing, although some authors point out that single-parent families are often ...
The Determinants of CO2 prices in the EU ETS System
European Union has launched its Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS) in 2005, creating the first and one of the biggest international carbon markets, with the aim of reducing CO2 emissions of the Member States. Forming a part ...
On the Link between Self-Employment and Job Satisfaction: What Do Really Change after Becoming a Self-Employee?
This paper studies the impact of the transition from salaried employment to self-employment on job satisfaction. Our analysis differs from previous empirical work in three crucial aspects. First, we consider all types of ...
The Long-run Effects of Housing on Well-Being
This paper provides one of the first tests of adaptation to a full set of residential transitions. We use long-run SOEP panel data and consider the impact of all housing transitions, whether or not they involve a change ...
The Duration of Compulsory Education and the Transition to Secondary Education: Panel Data Evidence from Low-Income Countries
A straightforward way of keeping children in school is increasing the duration of compulsory education. Evidence of the impact of this type of policy in Western countries is abundant. However, its effectiveness has been ...
Uncertainty and Downside Risk in International Stock Returns
We conduct an international analysis of the cross-sectional risk premiums of uncertainty risk factors in addition to traditional risk factors. We consider the stock markets in five regions separately. Internationally, uncertainty ...
An Analysis about reverse offshoring
Economies that traditionally benefited from offshoring are losing some of their strategical advantages, with a consequent increase in backshoring (i.e., reverse offshoring) by developed economies. This paper describes this ...
Argumentation Quantity and Quality: A Litigation Success Function
Arguments are statements used to persuade someone or in support of a claim. However, these are not perfect and the opponents can exploit them to build their own arguments. In this paper, we propose a new litigation success ...
The value and credits of n-authors publications
Collaboration among researchers is becoming increasingly common, which raises a large number of scientometrics questions for which there is not a clear and generally accepted answer. For instance, what value should be given ...
Entry determinants of the Software and Video games firms in Barcelona
This paper aims to determine which reasons lead Software and Video games firms (SVE hereafter) to locate in certain areas of Barcelona. This high-tech industry is a key industry in developed economies mainly located in ...
An egalitarian approach for sharing the cost of a spanning tree
A minimum cost spanning tree problem analyzes the way to efficiently connect individuals to a source when they are located at different places; that is, to connect them with the minimum possible cost. This objective requires ...
Information, uncertainty and the manipulability of artifcial intelligence autonomous vehicles systems
In an avoidable harmful situation, autonomous vehicles systems are expected to choose the course of action that causes the less damage to everybody. However, this behavioral protocol implies some predictability. In this ...
The Impact of Public Libraries on School Achievement: The Case of Medellin
This paper explores the relationship between public libraries and school achievement. Medellin counts on a system of public libraries. However, public library parks are part of a separate system. The library parks are ...
The allocation of CO2 emissions as a claims problem
This paper proposes to use claims models as a reasonable and operative alternative in order to allocate CO2 emissions by countries (or groups), in the framework of multilateral negotiations and the fight against climate change. ...
School Dropouts and the Local Labor Markets: The Role of the Skills Structure of the Employment
A small number of studies have examined the impact of local labor market conditions (unemployment) on school dropout rates. However, none of them have considered the role of the employment structure (skilled vs. non-skilled). ...
Location of Co-Working Spaces in the city
The present paper investigates the location patterns and the effects co-working spaces (CWS) generate on the urban context. The focus is on Barcelona, one of the most important creative hubs in Europe in terms of ...
Impact of Duration of Primary Education on Enrollment in Secondary Education: Panel Data Evidence from Developing Countries
Using panel data for non-OECD countries covering the period 1970-2012, this paper analyzes the impact of the duration of primary education on school enrollment in secondary education. The empirical results show that in ...
Decentralization and the Quality of Public Services: Cross-Country Evidence from Educational Data
In this paper, we study the impact of fiscal and political decentralization on the quality of public service delivery. While the effect of fiscal decentralization on public services is a recursive theme, to the best of our ...
Dictatorship versus manipulability
The Gibbard–Satterthwaite (1973/75) theorem roughly states that we have to accept dictatorship or manipulability in case of at least three alternatives. A large strand of the literature estimates the degree of manipulability ...
