Browsing Master in Economics: Empirical Applications and Policies by Title
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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 ... -
Territorial distribution of immigrants in Europe
(2020)Uneven distribution of immigrant population has diverse consequences in countries and societies. We call immigrants those that have a nationality different to the reporting country. Some European regions have an important ... -
The demand for health services in Spain: does having private insurance matter?
(2021)The purpose of this thesis is to explore the question of whether there exists any difference in the use of the Spanish healthcare services between privately and publicly insured individuals. The analysis is carried out ... -
The economic consequences of the Brexit vote
(2019)On June 2016, the British people voted to leave the European Union. This unexpected result provides us with the opportunity to study the impact of the vote on the economy. We replicate the work done by Born et al. (2017) ... -
The effect of a newborn on Spanish households' expenditure
(2020)This article aims to carry out an analysis of the effects of a newborn on Spanish households expenditure in 2014 and 2015. A standard difference-in-differences (DID) estimator would then compare the change in expenditure ... -
The effect of a newborn on the household labour supply
(2020)This master’s thesis investigates the effect of a newborn on household members’ labour market status. With this goal in mind, we use data from the Spanish Household Budget Survey and causal inference methods to estimate ... -
The Fiscal Implications of Energy Transition in the Transport Sector: A Case Study of the Basque Country
(2023)This Master Thesis analyses the socioeconomic and fiscal challenges that arise from the transition towards a climate-neutral economy by 2050 in the Basque Country. The research focuses on the gradual elimination of fossil ... -
The gender pay gap in Spain: A machine learning approach
(2023)This thesis investigates the gender pay gap in Spain using Machine Learning (ML) techniques to provide insights and predictive models to understand and address this persistent problem. This study uses a large dataset that ... -
The impact of COVID-19 confinement in the Euro Area: a Bayesian DSGE approach
(2020)With the aim of providing a preliminary forecast of the economic repercussion of the recent confinement, we estimate a canonical medium-scale dynamic stochastic general equilibrium model (DSGE) for the Euro Area economy, ... -
The impact of technological progress on the labor market: employment polarization in Europe
(2019)Following findings of recent literature, we analyze which are the main effects of the routine-bias technical change on employment. The master thesis shows evidence of employment polarization pattern for 16 European countries ... -
The importance of efficient designs in discrete choice experiments for environmental valuation
(2022)Discrete Choice Experiments (DCEs) are considered to be an appealing approach that is nowadays frequently used among researchers in many fields. No exception is their application in the field of environmental valuation, ...