jose maria gomez-sancho

University of Zaragoza | UNIZAR · Faculty of Economics and Business (FECEM)

This study investigates the reasons behind the decision to send children aged under three to ECEC (Early Childhood Education and Care) and the causes that may explain why some families send their child to ECEC once they reach the age of two while others decide to do so at an earlier age. To answer the first question posed a probit model is used, wh...

In the academic year of 2004–2005, the Spanish region of Madrid began to implement a bilingual educational programme (MBP hereinafter) in state schools. One of the objectives of this pro-gramme was to make the study of a foreign language (English) accessible to students from economically disadvantaged families who cannot afford private foreign lang...

This study examines the development of mathematical and financial literacy skills amongst 471 students in Spain. Most studies on this topic have looked at either one or the other skill but they have not examined the relationship between the two. The use of simultaneous equations has enabled us to do so. The aim of the paper is to disentangle the fa...

A growing literature has appeared in the last 2 decades with the aim to explore if the way in which publicly funded private schools are managed (a very autonomous mode) is more effective, than that applied in public schools (where decisions are highly centralized), concerning the promotion of student’s educational skills. Our paper contributes to t...

In the academic year of 2004-2005 the Spanish region of Madrid began to implement a bilingual educational programme in public schools. Currently, 45% of the public educational system (primary and secondary) participates in the bilingual programme of the Community of Madrid (hereinafter MBP). One of the objectives sought by this programme, but not t...

There is currently a heterogeneous distribution of public and private funding within the 47 public universities providing on-campus education in Spain. Apparently, such heterogeneity is among the consequences of the different application of RD Law 14/2012 in each Spanish region (Comunidad Autónoma). However, in some cases, there is also heterogenei...

New public management and increasing levels of competition driven by global rankings are bringing the managerial practices of public and private higher education institutions closer together. However, these two types of institutions still maintain different objectives and traditions and enjoy different degrees of autonomy that are reflected in thei...

This study measures the total factor productivity (TFP) of 15 OECD countries in the period 1989–2004 and disaggregates it into its two components: technical change and efficiency change. Subsequently, two theoretical models are estimated to evaluate the effects that technology and institutions have on technical change and on efficiency change. The...

Scientific production has been evaluated from very different perspectives, the best known of which are essentially based on the impact factors of the journals included in the Journal Citation Reports (JCR). This has been no impediment to the simultaneous issuing of warnings regarding the dangers of their indiscriminate use when making comparisons....

Junto a la fuerte explosión que se ha producido en la última década de los rankings universitarios a nivel internacional, se ha suscitado en nuestro país un gran interés por el estado de la cuestión, al tiempo que existe un creciente número de trabajos empíricos que plantean clasificaciones de las universidades españolas. El objetivo de este trabaj...

Para evaluar la producción científica se han empleado con profusión los factores de impacto contenidos en las revistas incluidas en los Journal Citation Report (JCR). Ello no ha sido óbice para que al mismo tiempo hayan surgido numerosas advertencias sobre los peligros de su uso indiscriminado en las comparaciones. Ello se debe a que los sesgos inc...

Measurement of research activity still remains a controversial question. The use of the impact factor from the Institute for Scientific Information (ISI) is quite widespread nowadays to carry out evaluations of all kinds; however, the calculation formula employed by ISI in order to construct its impact factors biases the results in favour of knowle...

En los últimos años se ha asistido a un incremento del interés por la evaluación de las instituciones universitarias y de los elemen-tos que las componen. Los estudios realizados hasta la fecha desde el ámbito económico difieren en múltiples aspectos (meto-dología de análisis, tipo de agregación, muestras, variables). Una característica en la que i...

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Este trabajo es una aproximación a la evaluación de la eficiencia en las universidades públicas españolas. Se estructura en seis apartados. En el primero se hace una pequeña introducción al tema. En el segundo se define qué tipo de eficiencia se trata de medir, la eficiencia técnica, distinguiéndola de otras posibilidades; la manera de medirla y un...

ABSTRACT

Uno de los aspectos clave a considerar por el investigador, a la hora de evaluar la eficiencia, es la homogeneidad de las unidades analizadas.

En el trabajo que aquí se presenta se muestran los resultados obtenidos al evaluar la eficiencia productiva de las universidades públicas españolas en el año 2000. Se ha empleado como técnica de estimación el Análisis Envolvente de Datos y, más concretamente, el modelo multiactividad propuesto por Beasley (1995) y, desarrollado en su versión dual,...