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Stalemate? The Complex Relationship between Educational Chess and Students’ Skills
Over the last decade, an increasing number of countries have integrated chess as a pedagogical tool and even as core content of their academic curricula. Nonetheless, the evidence regarding the causal effects of chess on ...
Biodiversity and population density
This paper estimates the effects of population density on biodiversity, with a focus on bird biodiversity in Spain. My estimates imply that a 1 percent increase in population density reduces the share of municipal area ...
The Effect of Import Competition Across Occupations
We empirically examine the effect of import competition on worker earnings across occupations. To guide our analysis, we develop a stylized model that emphasizes industries using occupations in different intensities. We ...
Examining the transmission of credit and liquidity risks: A network analysis for EMU sovereign debt markets
The sovereign debt crisis in the euro area revealed that European Monetary Union (EMU) government bond markets interact in a highly synchronised network and that risk particular to a country or sovereign bond yield component ...
Labor market institutions and preferences for redistribution
In highly segmented labor markets uneven distributions of risk across worker groups can lead to varying demands for redistribution. We study the impact of economic insecurity, associated with temporary contracts, on ...
Avoidance Responses to the Wealth Tax
As a consequence of the Great Recession, the Spanish government reintroduced the Wealth Tax in 2011. We exploit the variation in wealth tax exposure to analyse taxpayers’ responses to this reintroduction. While facing ...
Quantifying the health-care burden of temperature in the National Health Service in England: an economic analysis of resource use and costs
Background Climate change poses a severe and escalating threat to human health, yet its broader implications for health-care systems remain poorly understood. Although previous studies have examined mortality and hospital ...
Evaluating 10 years of premature mortality costs associated with liver cancer: a retrospective economic analysis of productivity loss in Spain
Objectives To assess the economic burden of premature mortality due to liver cancer in Spain over 10 years (20132022) using a retrospective economic analysis. Design A population- based retrospective study using the Human ...
El model de finançament singular per a Catalunya
El model de finançament de Catalunya és clarament insuficient i provoca que no es puguin garantir els serveis públics amb la qualitat que mereix la ciutadania per l’esforç fiscal que fa. La proposta de nou model de finançament ...
El model de finançament singular per a Catalunya
El model de finançament de Catalunya és clarament insuficient i provoca que no es puguin garantir els serveis públics amb la qualitat que mereix la ciutadania per l’esforç fiscal que fa. La proposta de nou model de finançament ...
Una nova pagesia?
Segons les darreres dades disponibles per l’any 2016, a Espanya l’agricultura, la ramaderia, la silvicultura i la pesca donava ocupació a unes 779.700 persones, entenent per tal totes aquelles de 16 o més anys que han estat ...
Control Aversion in Hierarchies
Companies typically control various aspects of their workers’ behaviors. In this article, we investigate whether the hierarchical distance of the superior who imposes such control measures matters for the workers’ ensuing ...
Paternity leave in Spain
Between 2017 and 2021, Spain progressively extended paternity leave from 2 to 16 weeks, equalizing it with maternity leave and introducing mandatory weeks. A 2018 reform also allowed fathers to split their leave. Using ...
Job competition in civil servant public examinations and sick leave behavior
In several countries, a traditional public exam system is the way to secure a job in the civil service. In this setting, candidates have to take and pass exams that involve studying large quantities of material, and this ...
The making of civic virtues: a school-based experiment in three countries
This paper shows that schools can foster the transmission of civic virtues by helping students to develop concrete, democratically chosen, collective projects. We draw on an RCT implemented in 200 middle schools in three ...
Digitalització, educació i valors democràtics
La digitalització de l’educació i del lleure ofereix oportunitats per a una major personalització de l’aprenentatge i l’entreteniment, amb potencial de ser inclusiva i eficient. El resultat dependrà de la bretxa en l’accés ...
Public procurement as an innovation policy: Where do we stand?
Scholars and policymakers have long recognized the potential of public procurement as an industrial policy tool to incentivize innovation. However, it remains unclear to what extent this potential has been realized and ...
Efficient Copyright Filters for Online Hosting Platforms
We build a model where an online hosting platform develops a copyright filter to screen content that contributors wish to upload. The technology is imprecise, since non-infringing material may be incorrectly filtered out. ...
Diseñando una herramienta integral para mejorar la eficiencia de las Políticas de Vivienda Social: El caso Sant Eloi en Barcelona
Mediante precios subvencionados, los programas de vivienda social representan una alternativa asequible frente al mercado inmobiliario, promoviendo el derecho a disponer de una vivienda digna y adecuada. Pero, tener un ...
L'equitat entre generacions com a garantia del benestar social
Les persones consumeixen, produeixen, estalvien i comparteixen recursos duranttota la vida, i porten a terme activitats que varien de manera significativa segons en quin moment del cicle vital es troben.A la infantesa i a ...
