Scandurra, Rosario Ivano (Date of defense: 2016-11-18)
This thesis deals with how adult skills are acquired. The proxies of adult skills used throughout the thesis are extracted from the Programme of International Assessment of Adult Skills (PIAAC), a survey ...
Osorio Mejía, Ana María (Date of defense: 2013-06-14)
The overall aim of this thesis is to contribute to an understanding of the pathways through which structural and intermediary determinants influence child health in Colombia and how they operate through ...
Martínez Farrero, Santi (Date of defense: 2015-02-06)
With the exception of the different studies performed by Márquez Cruz, and the report about local government (Magre, 2006), there is no other research, in Spain, with the level of detail of the current ...
Costas-Pérez, Elena (Date of defense: 2014-10-17)
This dissertation analyses the effects of information on corruption cases on citizens’ electoral behaviour and the media coverage of those scandals. Corruption, defined as the abuse of public office for ...
Raftopoulou, Athina (Date of defense: 2019-01-28)
This thesis comprises five chapters in total, starting with a general introduction that raises the issue of obesity as well as a brief description of the basic research questions of the dissertation, ...
Cohen, Lior (Date of defense: 2020-06-26)
In recent years, one of the main problems the European Economic and Monetary Union (EMU) has been facing is slow economic growth stemming, in part, from subdued investments despite interest rates falling ...
Migliari, Wellington (Date of defense: 2018-02-16)
The conflict between property system and the right to housing has evolved into a more complex inquiry since the beginning of the present research. Our initial analysis on the effectiveness of the social ...
Nogués Marco, Pilar (Date of defense: 2010-01-22)
The discovery of America was followed by a flow of precious metals to Spain and Portugal, and from there throughout the world. Historiography has reconstructed the quantities of gold and silver transferred ...
Miarons Blanco, Meritxell (Date of defense: 2019-10-21)
This study develops a bibliometric and empirical analysis of the relevance of accounting information when biological assets are measured at fair value versus at historical cost, using an international ...
Rubino, Nicola (Date of defense: 2020-09-10)
In the first part of our thesis, we present an analysis of a group of small commodity exporting countries' price differentials relative to the US dollar. Using unrestricted self exciting threshold ...