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      Analysing energy poverty in Spain 

      Delgado Rubio, Endika (2019)
      In this thesis we study energy poverty in Spain both at the level of concept and reality, using the Spanish family budgets survey for the year 2010. First we introduce the phenomenon of energy poverty analysing lightly its ...
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      Evolvement of a household’s income after retirement: A microeconomic study into French and Spanish households 

      Feenstra, Johannes (2023)
      Replacement rates are an effective way to analyze how income evolves following the retirement of an individual as the ratio of pre- and post-retirement income. Individuals generally live in a multi-person household, which ...
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      Measuring economic segregation in the US-Metropolitan areas 

      Kurtz, Robert (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 ...
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      Measuring school income segregation in Spain 

      San Vicente Larrondo, Lander (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 ...
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      Pigmentocracy, social mobility and inequality of opportunity in Mexico 

      Abarca Kerlegand, Rodrigo (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 ...
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      Spanish income mobility in the period 2017-2020 

      Pérez San Juan, Nerea (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 ...
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      Understanding segregation patterns in Chilean primary schools 

      Pérez Gatica, Rodrigo Antonio (2023)
      This study aims to achieve two primary objectives to comprehend segregation patterns in Chilean primary schools. To fulfill these goals, we compute the school segregation index (SSI) to assess the distribution of students ...