Education

According to the 2019/2020 Household Education Spending Survey (EGHE), the size of the Shadow Education (SE) market in Spain is even larger than estimated by the Household Budget Survey (EPF) for the same year, presented in Moreno’s EsadeEcPol report in January 2022. Based on this new survey, also from the INE, total spending amounted to […]

Despite the improvements seen over the last decade, Spain has the second highest early school leaving rate in the European Union. This phenomenon disproportionately affects boys and young people from lower-income families, and Spain is one of the countries where these groups face the largest gaps. In this brief we use two good predictors of […]

La jornada escolar matinal (continua) se ha extendido rápidamente en muchos centros públicos de toda España en los últimos 30 años. Aunque no existen datos oficiales, las encuestas más recientes muestran que la jornada matinal (continua) es mayoritaria en los centros públicos de Infantil y Primaria.

Fundación Vodafone España and Haz, la Alianza por la Educación set the working group the central objective of exploring the competency-based curriculum and its effective implementation and assessment in Spain. This exercise was carried out through 8 online sessions held between April and September 2021, organised by Fundación Vodafone España and the Center for Economic […]

We use census data on external assessments in primary and secondary school in the Basque Country (Spain) to estimate learning losses due to the COVID-19 pandemic in March 2021, one year after school closures, which lasted from March to June 2020. Differences-in-differences with student and school-by-grade fixed effects show an average learning loss of 0.045 […]

These documents are part of the «Learning loss after the pandemic» project, led by the Esade Center for Economic Policy (EsadeEcPol) and the COTEC Foundation. To find out more, visit www.perdidadeaprendizaje.es Learning loss after a year of pandemic: the case of the Basque Country This first document presents the main results of the analysis of […]

Lucas Gortazar, Director de Educación del Esade Center for Economic Policy and Political Economy (EsadeEcPol) entrevista a Pilar Alegría, Ministra de Educación y Formación Profesional del Gobierno de España. En esta entrevista en profundidad, la Ministra desgrana las políticas educativas del Gobierno de España respondiendo a las preguntas más relevantes de la legislatura en materia […]

Spending on shadow education (SE) has grown in Spain regardless of the economic context: its volume tripled between 2006 (€246M) and 2017 (€732M), coinciding with the Great Recession. Demand appears to be inelastic, and would de facto be turning what was a luxury good into an essential good. The relationship between SE and schooling was […]

Menttores consisted of an 8-week long, intensive online tutoring program, with three 50-minute sessions a week for pupils aged 12 to 15

Menttores consisted of an 8-week long, intensive online tutoring program, with three 50-minute sessions a week for pupils aged 12 to 15 (years one and two of compulsory secondary education) in 18 state and grant-assisted schools (colegios concertados) in the Region of Madrid and Catalonia (Barcelona and Lleida).

EsadeEcPol, y la Fundación Empieza por Educar, ExE, presentan los resultados del proyecto Menttores, un programa pionero de refuerzo socioeducativo online de matemáticas para alumnado de entornos vulnerables en Madrid y Cataluña, que ha tenido un alto impacto y que ha sido evaluado con una metodología innovadora en la investigación educativa (Ensayo Aleatorio Controlado). Además de […]

Según un análisis novedoso de los datos de búsquedas en tiempo real de Google Trends y Google Classroom en España, el surgimiento de la crisis sanitaria condujo a un incremento muy generalizado del uso de recursos educativos digitales.