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A multiobjective interval programming model to explore the trade-offs among different aspects of job satisfaction under different scenarios
Henriques, Carla Oliveira; López-Agudo, Luis Alejandro
; Marcenaro-Gutiérrez, Óscar David; Luque-Gallego, Mariano (Elsevier, 2019)
The need for greater concern about job quality/satisfaction seems clear, due to its potential link with workers' productivity, to the extent it affects employees' quitting behaviour, absenteeism, turnover, and firms' ... -
A novel approach for exploring the trade-offs between several features of students’ well-being
Henriques, Carla Oliveira; López-Agudo, Luis Alejandro; Marcenaro-Gutiérrez, Óscar David; Luque-Gallego, Mariano (Wiley, 2021)
We propose a novel approach to explore the trade-offs between four features of students’ well-being (anxiety, motivation, sense of belonging, and bullying). On the one hand, a multiobjective interval problem is formulated ... -
An analysis of parental satisfaction with school
Jerrim, John; Prieto-Latorre, Claudia; López-Agudo, Luis Alejandro; Marcenaro-Gutiérrez, Óscar David (2022-06-30)
This article presents an analysis of factors which are important in the satisfaction with schools during primary education by families. The empirical evidence herein is based on students attending primary education in ... -
An international analysis of parental school preferences.
Jerrim, John; Prieto-Latorre, Claudia; López-Agudo, Luis Alejandro; Marcenaro-Gutiérrez, Óscar David (2023)
Parents are concerned about their children’s educational progress, and thus school choice has an important role in parenting. This research analyses the features when choosing a school in the countries participating in the ... -
Are early writers and readers more successful than their counterparts?
López-Agudo, Luis Alejandro; Marcenaro-Gutiérrez, Óscar David (2016-02-12)
There exists an increasing number of scientific contributions focused on the influence of the attendance to early childhood and/or preprimary education on the future academic track of the students, which employ the quarter ... -
Are soft skills conditioned by conflicting factors? A multiobjective programming approach to explore the trade-offs
Marcenaro-Gutiérrez, Óscar David; López-Agudo, Luis Alejandro; Henriques, Carla Oliveira (Science Direct, 2021)
Despite the relevance of noncognitive skills (i.e. soft skills) for individual development and for certain forms of employment, they tend to be overlooked in studies centred on educational performance. This study brings ... -
Comparing parental satisfaction with their child’s school during primary and secondary education
Jerrim, John; Prieto-Latorre, Claudia; López-Agudo, Luis Alejandro; Marcenaro Gutierrez, Oscar David (2023)
A wide array of research has investigated the correlates and consequences of parental satisfaction with their child’s school. In brief, parents look at academic performance, but also other non-academic dimensions such as ... -
The difficulty of obtaining causal impact: an international analysis of students’ academic achievement
Jerrim, John; López-Agudo, Luis Alejandro; Marcenaro-Gutiérrez, Óscar David; Shure, Nikki (2018-01-08)
International large-scale assessments such as PISA are increasingly being used to benchmark the academic performance of young people across the world. Yet many of the technicalities underpinning these datasets are ... -
Does it matter what students read? Evidence from Andalusia
There is a great amount of literature which states that promoting reading among students is of public interest. Nevertheless, there is scarce evidence on the differential influence that each type of readings can have on ... -
Essays on economics of education from the perspective of microeconometrics and optimization
López-Agudo, Luis Alejandro (UMA Editorial, 2017)
Esta tesis pertenece al campo de la Economía de la Educación, área de investigación dentro de la Economía que se basa en la aplicación de técnicas econométricas para analizar la realidad educativa. La intención de esta ... -
Essays on Economics of Education: the role of kindergarten, ICT and soft-skills.
(UMA Editorial, 2024)Esta tesis doctoral analiza los factores causales que inciden en el rendimiento académico durante las distintas etapas del proceso educativo. Partiendo de la educación prescolar, y teniendo en cuenta que las habilidades ... -
Estatus socioeconómico y nivel de inglés académico autopercibido por alumnado universitario
En esta comunicación se pretende analizar si el estatus socioeconómico del alumnado universitario influye en el nivel de inglés académico autopercibido por este, al entender que esta percepción puede ser un factor condicionante ... -
Evaluating the efficiency of primary schools in Canary Islands: A Three-Stage SBM Approach.
Ladrón de Guevara Rodríguez, María; Oliveira Henriques, Carla; López-Agudo, Luis Alejandro; Marcenaro-Gutiérrez, Óscar David (2023)
Education, as a process of human capital accumulation, is essential for a society’s economic growth. Given its relevance and bearing in mind that public spending is not exclusively devoted to financing the education ... -
Financial illiteracy in Spain: a structural problem
Marcenaro-Gutiérrez, Óscar David; López-Agudo, Luis Alejandro; Molina Marfil, José Antonio (2019-01-29)
Financial education in Spain has been traditionally a forgotten subject. Nevertheless, recent economic problems, as the economic crisis, have put into focus the lack of financial literacy that Spanish population presents. ... -
Grade retention and academic performance: a difficult relationship?
López-Agudo, Luis Alejandro; Ladrón de Guevara Rodríguez, María; Marcenaro-Gutiérrez, Óscar David (2022-06)
The education debate in Spain has widely discussed the positive and negative features of grade retention on students’ academic performance but, in spite of its relevance, this impact has not been assessed beyond correlation. ... -
Grade retention in Spain: the right way?
López-Agudo, Luis Alejandro; Prieto-Latorre, Claudia; Marcenaro-Gutiérrez, Óscar David (Springer Heidelberg, 2023-10-23)
There is a wide debate on the convenience of grade retention for students’ future cognitive development. Nevertheless, due to the endogenous characteristics of grade retention to explain students’ academic performance, ... -
How to make parents happy with the school and teachers?
Jerrim, John; Prieto-Latorre, Claudia; López-Agudo, Luis Alejandro; Marcenaro-Gutiérrez, Óscar David (2022)
Parental satisfaction with their children’s school and teachers have been extensively analysed in the literature. However, most research works do not agree in the set of factors which define this parental satisfaction. ... -
How to reach compromises in life satisfaction: a conflicting and multidimensional task
Oliveira Henriques, Carla; Marcenaro-Gutiérrez, Óscar David; López-Agudo, Luis Alejandro; Luque-Gallego, Mariano (2019-07-10)
Recent concerns around the importance of job and life satisfaction on firms’ productivity have been brought to the policy debate in the European Union. Irrespective of the numerous scientific publications that have been ... -
Ideal Internet usage and academic achievement: finding the right balance
Ladrón de Guevara Rodríguez, María; López-Agudo, Luis Alejandro; Prieto-Latorre, Claudia; Marcenaro-Gutiérrez, Óscar David (2022-07)
Younger generations have grown up with the Internet. Far from being a purely information search engine, the Internet has become fully integrated into the way children live and learn today. It has changed the way children ... -
Influence of body mass index on health complains and life satisfaction
Prieto-Latorre, Claudia; López-Agudo, Luis Alejandro; Marcenaro-Gutiérrez, Óscar David (Springer Nature, 2023-12-01)
Purpose This research work investigates the influence of children’s weight status on well-being and school context in a sample of Spanish adolescences. Methods The Spanish records from the 2013–14 Health Behaviour in ...