Listar EAEEC - Contribuciones a congresos científicos por autor "Marcenaro Gutierrez, Oscar David"
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A Cross Country Prescriptive Analysis of the Efficiency of Educational Systems
Marcenaro-Gutiérrez, Óscar David
(2016-11-21)
How does a country achieve the most efficient education system possible? We examine the efficiency of educational systems across the world using internationally comparable performance of secondary school pupils. We use ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
The effect on students’ academic progression of relative school socioeconomic status
Marcenaro-Gutiérrez, Óscar David (2019-01-29)
It has been widely studied that students’ academic achievement may be affected by the socioeconomic characteristics of their peers. Nevertheless, little is known on whether the relative position that students occupied ... -
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. ... -
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 ... -
Is grade retention the solution for failing?
The convenience of grade retention for students’ adequate progression in the education system has been the focus of great debate. However, the characteristics that the grade retention variable presents when explaining ... -
Is homework the solution to low academic performance?
Parental associations have long held the view that Spanish elementary school pupils spend too much time undertaking homework. This situation is so alarming that it has recently (2016) caused a ‘homework strike’, which has ... -
More class time, better achievement?
López-Agudo, Luis Alejandro; Marcenaro-Gutiérrez, Óscar David (2017-02-06)
Spanish press has widely criticized the fact that students spend almost their whole day at school, a practice rooted in the common belief that higher instruction time enhances students’ learning. However, in spite of this ... -
On the trade-offs between hard and soft-skills skills: the Spanish case
Marcenaro-Gutiérrez, Óscar David; López-Agudo, Luis Alejandro; Henriques, Carla Oliveira (2022-07-01)
The increasing relevance of non-cognitive skills (i.e., soft skills) for individual development and socioeconomic growth, and the well-established importance of cognitive skills in explaining socioeconomic success, ... -
Parents' and Children's Gender: the effect of parental expectations in children's performance
Parental expectations have been found in the literature to explain their children’s academic achievement. Nevertheless, most of the evidence on this issue is the result of the endogeneity of parental expectations when ... -
Parents’ and students’ gender-interaction: the effect of parental expectations
The study of the effect on students’ academic achievement of their parents’ expectations has been widely explored; nevertheless, most of the existing evidence for the Spanish case is purely correlational and subject to ...