Date: 2021
Type: Thesis
Essays in economics of education
Florence : European University Institute, 2021, EUI, ECO, PhD Thesis
MARTINEZ DE LAFUENTE, David, Essays in economics of education, Florence : European University Institute, 2021, EUI, ECO, PhD Thesis - https://hdl.handle.net/1814/69950
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This thesis consists of three independent essays in economics of education. In the first chapter, I investigate the connection between cultural identities and parental schooling decisions. By leveraging the case of the Basque Country (Spain), this essay studies how parents trade off academic quality for being educated in the regional language. Using a discrete choice structural model, I show that households display strong preferences for the Basque-monolingual model. Results indicate a willingness to forego a substantial amount of mean academic performance to evade the Spanish and the bilingual models. By means of regression analysis, I find a strong association between nationalistic voting and educational language choices. This suggests that schooling decisions are significantly shaped by parents’ affiliation to the regional culture. In the second chapter, I test whether the cultural assimilation efforts of immigrant families mitigate discriminatory attitudes of schools. To this end, I sent fictitious visit requests to more than 2,500 schools located in the Community of Madrid (Spain). I find that Romanian families who gave a Spanish name to their child are 50% less discriminated than those who selected a Romanian name. Emails from families whose members have Romanian names are 12% less likely to receive a response than those from native Spanish-name families. The results show a consistent response pattern across school characteristics. The third chapter, co-authored with Lucas Gortazar and Ainhoa Vega-Bayo, studies the presence of systematic differences between teacher non-blind assessments and external quasiblindly graded standardized tests. We use a rich administrative database covering two cohorts from publicly-funded schools in the Basque Country. We find that systematic underassessment exists for boys, children with immigrant origin, and poorer students. The results indicate that stereotyping is a consistent mechanism through which our findings can be interpreted.
Table of Contents:
-- Part. 1 Identity and school choice : parental preferences for language educational models -- Part. 2 Cultural assimilation and ethnic discrimination : an audit study with schools -- Part. 3 Comparing teacher and external assessments : are boys, immigrants, and poorer students undergraded? -- Part. 4 References --
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Defence date: 12 February 2021; Examining board: Professor Andrea Ichino (European University Insitute); Professor Sule Alan (European University Insitute); Professor Manuel Bagues (University of Warwick); Professor Caterina Calsamiglia (Institute of Political Economy and Governance)
Cadmus permanent link: https://hdl.handle.net/1814/69950
Full-text via DOI: 10.2870/54700
Series/Number: EUI; ECO; PhD Thesis
Publisher: European University Institute
Version: Chapter 2 'The intellectual boundaries of material space: women’s writings on geography, the fatherland, patriotism, and the war' of the PhD thesis draws upon an earlier version published as an article 'Female Fatherlands: Women of Letters, Greek Patriotism and the Revolution of 1821' (2023) in the journal 'Historein'.
Chapter 1 and 3 'Voices of a Revolution: Women, Language, and Nationhood' and 'Agency and actions: salons, philhellenism, and secret societies' of the PhD thesis draws upon an earlier version published as an article 'Tracing the ‘Political’ in Women’s Work: Women of Letters in the Greek Cultural Space, 1800–1832' (2021) in the journal 'Journal of Modern Greek Studies'.
Chapter 1 'Voices of a Revolution: Women, Language, and Nationhood' of the PhD thesis draws upon an earlier version published as chapter 'Women of the Word: Translation and Political Activism in the Age of Revolutions' (2023) in the book 'History of Intellectual Culture'.
Chapter 5 'A women’s nation: Maria Anastasia Petrettini and her intellectual borderlands' of the PhD thesis draws upon an earlier version published as chapter 'Trans-Adriatic Enlightenments: Maria Petrettini’s Italian Translation of the Turkish Embassy Letters' (2024) in the book 'Gender and Cultural Mediation in the Long Eighteenth Century: Women across Borders'.
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