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Gender gap in the energy sector. Evidence from Spain
(2021)The energy transition is at the heart of the current energy debate and its social dimension is becoming more relevant in the latest policy developments. This Master Thesis aims to develop the research on one of the ... -
Geometry of Diffusion: structure of connectivity and systemic risk in financial networks.
(2021)Ever since the 2008 global financial crises, both scholars and practitioners have argued that the interconnectivity of financial and banking networks is a key determinant of global systemic risk. Employing a simple diffusion ... -
Green jobs in the Spanish renewable energy sectors: an input-output approach
(2020)After the Paris agreement, the transition to a low carbon economy is at the heart of the debate of the European energy and climate policy. One of the central targets of this transformation proposes changes in the energy ... -
Health in cities: neighborhood effects and scioeconomic determinants in the Spanish case
(2020)The impact of place on individual outcomes, like health, presents many causal challenges that have disputed treatments in the literature. A 2011 study by Bilger Carrieri addresses them via instrumentation, to surprising ... -
Impact of the phase out of French nuclear plants on the Spanish electricity market
(2020)One of the key elements in the transition to low carbon economies is the phase-out of fossil-fuel based technologies. Nuclear power, despite not being a high emitting source, is one of the technologies at the heart of the ... -
Improving the understanding of individual and household characteristics in the analysis of poverty in Bolivia
(2022)This thesis aims to determine to what extent differences in individual and household characteristics within the same country affect the poverty of different areas of Bolivia or different social groups. The analysis is ... -
Labor market transitions and the emancipation of young people
(2022)Youth emancipation is defined as the state of independence that young people achieve when they have a job and can afford housing independent of their parents. In the last decade, Spain shows a growing number of young people ... -
Measuring economic segregation in the US-Metropolitan areas
(2021)This paper aims to provide empirical evidence on “Income Ethnical Segregation” by constructing an index that analyses US Census Data from 1990 until 2010. Following the groundwork of the “SSI” the results can be considered ... -
Measuring healthcare deprivation from self-reported data
(2022)The aim of this Master’s thesis is to analyze households’ healthcare deprivation and its determinants in Spain for the years 2014, 2017 and 2020. The analysis is divided in two main sections; the first one aims to determine ... -
Measuring school income segregation in Spain
(2020)In this work, our goal is to answer if Spanish students are differently located among schools depending on their standard of living. In other words, we analyse the segregation by income in schools in Spain. To do so, we ... -
Opportunity bias in Spain: empirical evidence, drivers and trends
(2021)The aim of this study is to measure opportunity bias in Spain. This purpose requires to analyse current outcomes as a function of opportunities, and how the latter affect the first. Opportunities are defined in terms of ... -
Pigmentocracy, social mobility and inequality of opportunity in Mexico
(2020)Wealth inequality in Mexico has gained attention in recent years, with a public responding to economic realities that precipitate less security and a more narrow horizon of opportunity for its citizens. This paper examines ... -
Poverty in the Basque Country and poverty reduction measures
(2019)After the Great Recession, there is a wide debate about the implementation of Minimum Income Schemes (MIS) in order to reduce poverty. In this paper, we analyze the evolution of poverty and inequality in the Basque Country ... -
Public and private interest politics
(2019)This paper analyses the factors that influence politicians to enter politics. The objective of the project is to examine if the main motivation of politicians to enter politics is public interest or private interest. In ... -
Robotization in Spanish firms: The impact of automation
(2023)Based on the studies conducted by Acemoglu, Lelarge, and Restrepo (2020) and Koch, Manuylov, and Smolka (2021), this article aims to assess the short-term impact of robot adoption on the performance of Spanish manufacturing ... -
School bullying and social networks
(2022)Although school bullying has enormous health, social, and economic consequences that last throughout the entire human life, most bullying- prevention programs are ineffective partially because detecting bullies and their ... -
Social class segregation in upper-secondary school choice in Canada
(2020)The aim of this work is to analyze how the spoken language at home influences the parental decision on school choice in Canada. There is a vast literature on the factors affecting school choice, but very little research ... -
Spanish income mobility in the period 2017-2020
(2023)Income mobility is a dynamic phenomenon that may pave the way for the establishment of egalitarian societies aimed at enhancing the global welfare of the individuals and dismantling social and economic concerns such as ... -
Subjective well-being and consumption: defining the relationship and exploring the effects of overconsumption
(2023)Previous economic studies on subjective well-being have primarily focused on income, and limited research has been conducted on the relationship between consumption and subjective well-being, which lies at the core of ... -
Supported degree: a new network measure
(2021)Since interaction between people exists at all levels of human activity, understanding how the patterns of interactions shape behavior and performance of network members is a key question across social sciences. This ...