Making progress happen
Lucía Cobreros Vicente, Marc Colomer, Eudald Correig-Fraga, Lucas Gortazar & Isaac Sayol
Explaining the learning decline in PISA 2025 by socioeconomic quartiles through methodological changes
23 Sep, 2026
Miguel Almunia & Pablo García-Guzmán
Intergenerational transfers and the demographic challenge
2 Jul, 2026
Latest
Webinar: international and domestic outlook and energy capabilities — Economic and Financial Report #39
Against a backdrop marked by a new energy shock —the conflict in the Middle East and tensions in the Strait of Hormuz— we present the Economic and Financial Report #39 (with the support of Banco Sabadell). The session reviews the most recent international and domestic trends and discusses their implications for the Spanish economy, with […]
Research & books
Research contributions
Online tutoring works: Experimental evidence from a program with vulnerable children · Lucas Gortazar, Claudia Hupkau, Toni Roldán-Monés (2024) Journal of Public Economics.
The Iberian exception: estimating the impact of a cap on gas prices · Manuel Hidalgo-Pérez, Natalia Collado, Jorge Galindo, Ramón Mateo (2024) Energy Policy, vol. 188
Learning loss one year after school closures: evidence from the Basque Country · Andreu Arenas, Lucas Gortazar (2024) SERIEs 15
Residence-based priorities and school Choice · Lucas Gortazar, David Mayor, José Montalbán (2023) Economics of Education Review, Vol. 95
Comparing teacher and external assessments: Are boys, immigrants, and poorer students undergraded? · Lucas Gortazar, David Martínez de Lafuente, Ainoha Vega-Bayo (2022) Teaching and Teacher Education, Vol. 115
Explaining the learning decline in PISA 2025 by socioeconomic quartiles through methodological changes · Lucía Cobreros, Marc Colomer, Eudald Correig-Fraga, Lucas Gortazar, Isaac Sayol · working paper (sep 2026) · Innovamat Research Lab
Attracting Talent to General Practice through Financial Incentives · Lucía Cobreros, Carlos Sunyer, Judit Vall Castelló
Paying for Parity: Incentivizing Men in Feminized Occupations · Lucía Cobreros, Carlos Sunyer, Judit Vall Castelló
When GenAI increases inequality: evidence from a university debating competition · Toni Roldán-Monés · working paper (may 2025) · LSE’s POID series · R&R Management Science
Ideological Alignment and Evidence-Based Policy Adoption · Jorge García-Hombrados, Marcel Jansen, Ángel Martínez, Berkay Özcan, Pedro Rey-Biel, Toni Roldán-Monés · working paper (may 2024) · IZA Discussion Paper · Accepted: American Economic Review
Heterogeneous effects of SSB taxes: Evidence from Spain · Ángel Martínez, Javier Martínez · working paper (nov 2023)
Distributional accounts: a tool for monitoring the distribution of household wealth and debt components · Lucía Cobreros, Marina Gómez-García, Sandra García-Uribe · Banco de España, Economic Bulletin (sept 2023): Article 02
Projects
Key partnerships
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Experimental
Developed by Manuel Hidalgo and Javier Martínez.
Our algorithms for collecting and tracking calls for tenders and grants linked to NextGenEU funds show that:
→ As of 12 March 2026, more than €90,000M has been called: above the initial tranche.
→ €63,000M has been awarded: 70% of the initial amount
→ Construction is the sector with the most awards to companies, followed by trade.
→ Catalonia is the region with the largest total amount awarded, and the Basque Country leads per capita.
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