Gender & inequality

This study proposes the most in-depth and detailed analysis of gender inequality in STEM fields in Spain to date. Distinctively, we focus on areas with a significant emphasis on mathematics, where the most pronounced gaps occur; we cover everything from basic education, thanks to the latest PISA results, to the professional career, for which we […]

Key Data The gaps in educational outcomes in Spain have tended to remain stable or increase after the pandemic:   → One out of every six points of difference between students in PISA mathematics scores can be explained by socioeconomic inequality, a degree similar to 2018.   → Students from a low socioeconomic background are almost 4 […]

Aida Caldera, head of division in the OECD’s economics department, talks to Jorge Galindo, deputy director of EsadeEcPol, about the organization’s latest report analyzing the Spanish economy. They address its short-term resilience and how it contrasts with the worst medium- and long-term prospects, going in depth into its bottlenecks (productivity, debt) and how they condition […]

Last Tuesday, November 28th, we talked about our book “Un País Posible: Manual de Reformas Políticamente Viables” (Un País Posible: A Handbook of Politically Viable Reforms) thanks to the invitation of the Harvard Kennedy School Spain Alumni Network. The conversation counted with the interventions of Toni Roldán, Miguel Almunia, Marta Suárez-Varela and Antonio Cabrales and […]

Last Monday morning, October 9, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences announced that it was awarding the 2023 Alfred Nobel Memorial Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences to Harvard professor Claudia Goldin. In summary, the academy explained that Goldin was deserving of the prize for helping to understand the role of women in the […]

España tiene prácticamente la misma renta real per capita que hace 15 años, mientras que otros países de nuestro entorno son mucho más ricos que entonces. Esto significa que en los últimos dieciocho años no hemos mejorado, de media, nuestro nivel de vida. Nos encontramos, por tanto, en el camino hacia dos décadas perdidas. Hay […]

Coincidiendo con la semana del Día Internacional de la Mujer, en EsadeEcPol estaremos conversando este viernes 10 de marzo a las 10am con algunas de las investigadoras que más y mejor están trabajando sobre la igualdad desde distintas perspectivas. Estaremos con Irene Unceta (Esade), Claudia Hupkau (CUNEF), Libertad González (BSE-UPF), Judit Vall (UB-IEB), Ana Moreno-Maldonado (CUNEF), […]

A pesar de las mejoras experimentadas en la última década, España tiene la segunda tasa de abandono escolar temprano más alta de la Unión Europea. Este fenómeno afecta en mayor proporción a los chicos, y a los jóvenes con familias de menor renta, siendo España uno de los países donde estos grupos sufren mayores brechas. […]

Gender gaps in the labor market impact of the COVID-19 pandemic are closely linked to the policies implemented to contain the spread of the virus, such as school and workplace closures, and the negative effects on the economy, such as financial support for short-time workers. This is shown by a detailed analysis of the gender […]

Pese a la reducción de otras brechas de género en el mercado laboral, las mujeres eligen con menos frecuencia carreras relacionadas con los campos de ciencias, tecnología, ingeniería y matemáticas (STEM). Usando microdatos de pruebas diagnósticas de la Comunidad de Madrid entre 2016 y 2019, vemos el reflejo de la brecha laboral en la educación […]

Despite overall convergence between men and women in labour market participation rates, women still fare worse than men.

The psychological costs of the pandemic are vast and likely to be permanent.