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Students’ Behavior, Skills and Education: Implications for the Design of Educational Interventions
Economics of Education
Senior Researcher : Pau Balart Castro
Research Centre or Institution : Universitat de les Illes Balears
Abstract
Education is a source of individual and collective prosperity. Countries need to allocate substantial resources to finance skills and knowledge acquisition. The growing demand for knowledge and skills requires not only to ensure that societies allocate enough resources on education, but also that these resources are efficiently used. The correct design of education policies and educational interventions is critical to accomplish this objective. The aim of the present project is exploiting developments in Behavioral Economics and Decision Science to improve the design of educational programs and interventions.
During this second year of the project, we have produced a second research article entitled “Framing Effects on Risk Taking Behavior: Evidence From a Field Experiment.” In this study, we show that manipulating the framing of penalties in a multiple-choice test can affect test takers' willingness to respond. This result implies that non-rational considerations affect risk-making decisions during student assessments. The article is currently in revise and resubmit in the journal Experimental Economics (Q2 JCR, Economics). Presentations have also been made at national and international conferences and seminars (some of them online as a result of the pandemic situation). We have also collected data and designed experiments to produce new research articles.
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Communications at national conferences | 1 |
Communications at international conferences | 5 |
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27
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2023
Presentación y coloquio Indicadores comentados sobre el estado del sistema educativo español 2023 Madrid, Wednesday, 27 September 2023, 19:00 hours
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2023
Conference The quest for efficiency in higher education: Experience from England and the UK over 5 decades Wednesday 25, October 2023, 9:30 hours
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2024
Conference Family, culture and gender Madrid, Jueves, 06 de junio de 2024, 19:00 horas
- Towards an understanding of parents' expectations of the returns on education in developing countries 2015 Senior Researcher : Alex Armand Research Centre or Institution : Universidad de Navarra. Pamplona.
- Evaluation of efficiency in educational production from sample designs 2016 Senior Researcher : Juan Aparicio Baeza Research Centre or Institution : Universidad Miguel Hernández de Elche. Alicante.
- Measuring educational equity in Spain and the OECD: a multidimensional analysis using composite indicators 2020 Senior Researcher : Gabriela Sicilia Research Centre or Institution : Universidad de La Laguna
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Solo el 38% del profesorado de secundaria ha recibido formación en tecnología
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Indicadores comentados sobre el estado del sistema educativo español. 2024
2024 Indicadores sobre educaciónEl tratamiento de la diferencia y de las necesidades educativas. Un estudio pedagógico
2024 Papers on Education- Multigenerational Inequality in Spain Senior Researcher : Andrea Pîzzo Research Centre or Institution : Universidad Carlos III de Madrid.
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