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Santín González, Daniel

First Name

Daniel

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Santín González

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https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/74628

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Universidad Complutense de Madrid

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Ciencias Económicas y Empresariales

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Economía Aplicada, Pública y Política

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Economía Aplicada

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Project number: 218
Métodos audiovisuales para la motivación y el aprendizaje en economía y administración pública III
(2018) Valiño Castro, Aurelia; Onrubia Fernández, Jorge; Santín González, Daniel; Sánchez Fuentes, Antonio Jesús; Checa Santamaría, Fausto
Determinants of grade retention in France and Spain: Does birth month matter?
(Journal of Policy Modeling, 2015) Pedraja-Chaparro, Francisco; Santín González, Daniel; Simancas, Rosa
In France and Spain, children born in the same calendar year start school together, regardless of maturity differences due to their birth month. This paper analyses the educational impact of birth month on the probability of grade retention controlling by other covariates. Using the PISA 2009 database for both countries, wedo identify a great impact on grade retention since students born in the last months of the year are between 70% and 80% more likely to repeat a grade than children born in the first months of the same year. We conclude that policy interventions are required in those countries to ensure that individuals are not unfairly penalized by their birth month.
Dealing with endogeneity in data envelopment analysis applications
(Expert Systems With Applications, 2017) Santín González, Daniel; Sicilia, Gabriela
Although the presence of the endogeneity is frequently observed in economic production processes, it tends to be overlooked when practitioners apply data envelopment analysis (DEA). In this paper we deal with this issue in two ways. First, we provide a simple statistical heuristic procedure that enables practitioners to identify the presence of endogeneity in an empirical application. Second, we propose the use of an instrumental input DEA (II-DEA) as a potential tool to address this problem and thus improve DEA estimations. A Monte Carlo experiment confirms that the proposed II-DEA approach outperforms standard DEA in finite samples under the presence of high positive endogeneity. To illustrate our theoretical findings, we perform an empirical application on the education sector.
Another brick in the wall: a new ranking of academic journals in Economics using FDH
(Scientometrics, 2016) García Romero, Antonio; Santín González, Daniel; Sicilia, Gabriela
The academic journals rankings are widely used for academic purposes, especially in the field of Economics. There are many procedures to construct academic journals rankings. Some of them are based on citation analysis while other are based on expert opinion. In this study, we introduced a methodological innovation to aggregate different performance measures to build an alternative ranking of journals in Economics. Our approach is based on a pure output oriented Free Disposal Hull (FDH). We analyzed four indicators—Journal Impact Factor, Discounted Impact Factor, h-index, and Article Influence—for a set of 232 journals in Economics. The results allow us to reach two main conclusions. First, the ranking based on the FDH method seems to be consistent with other well-known reference rankings (i.e.: KMS, Invariant, Ambitious and Area Score). Second, the additional information that provides the FDH model may be used by the Editorial Board to formulate strategies to achieve goals. For instance, to improve a journal score by comparing it with the scores of similar journals.
Is it worth it? Using DEA to analyze the efficiency gains and costs of merging university departments: a case study of the Complutense University of Madrid
(International Transactions in Operational Research, 2024) Santín González, Daniel; Tejada Cazorla, Juan Antonio
The aim of this paper is to analyze the benefits of the university department merger undertaken by the Complutense University of Madrid (UCM) in 2017. The merger led to a new structure in which the original 184 departments were reduced to 97. To do this, we use the data envelopment analysis (DEA) to evaluate the efficiency gains of a merger process decomposing efficiency into three savings effects: learning, harmony, and scale effects. They decomposed efficiency into three savings effects: learning, harmony, and scale effects. Additionally, we introduce a new regulatory effect, which accounts for other potential recursive savings not included in the DEA analysis. Our results suggest that the merger process undertaken by the UCM achieved savings of around 20.5 million euros, approximately 6.6 million euros, which is accounted for by the regulatory effect. These savings will reproduce and accumulate annually over time. The results also show that, as a result of the intense negotiations, academic staff based at faculties engaged in the merger process may have taken more days of sick leave than academics from unmerged faculties in 2017, although the increase is not significant at standard levels.
Descentralización y financiación de la Universidad Pública en Latinoamérica : algunas propuestas a partir del caso español
(2003) Santín González, Daniel
Este documento se ha creado a raíz de la amplia aceptación de la teoría del capital humano de Becker, de 1964, que considera a la educación no sólo como un bien de consumo sino sobre todo de inversión. El objetivo final de este trabajo es motivar el debate y la reflexión crítica en torno a la universidad que nos gustaría tener en el futuro en Latinoamérica, considerando para ello las distintas opciones que se plantean desde la teoría y desde la evidencia empírica puesta en práctica por otros países.
Global and local technical changes: a new decomposition of the Malmquist productivity index using virtual units
(Economic Modelling, 2024) Aparicio, Juan; Santín González, Daniel
In estimating productivity change over time, technical change is frequently miscalculated as the geometric average of technological changes between two periods based on firm-specific information in the dataset. However, the frontier shift over time is a global phenomenon linked to relative technological progress or regress across the entire frontiers. In this paper, we fill this gap by determining the technical change using synthetic observations generated at random within a unit hypercube and calculating the distances between them and the two frontiers being evaluated. Accordingly, we propose a decomposition of the Malmquist index's traditional technical change into two components: average global technical change, which is shared by all production units, and local technical change, which captures how each firm experiences global technical change. In this way, our approach establishes a new research avenue in production economics based on using randomly generated virtual points to assess overall phenomena.
Detección de alumnos de riesgo y medición de la eficiencia de centros escolares mediante redes neuronales
(1999) Santín González, Daniel
Se utilizan las redes neuronales para solucionar empíricamente tres problemas habituales en el campo de la economía de la educación: detección de alumnos con alto riesgo de fracaso escolar, evaluación de la eficiencia relativa de centros educativos y evaluación de la eficiencia relativa de diferentes planes de estudio
Does family structure affect children's academic outcomes? Evidence for Spain
(Social Science Journal, 2016) Santín González, Daniel; Sicilia, Gabriela
Several sociodemographic phenomena have changed family organization in Spain over the last few decades, where less structured forms than the traditional nuclear family have gained in importance. In view of the importance of children’s and adolescents’ education, we aim to identify the effect of non-nuclear family membership on academic outcomes of Spanish children in fourth-year primary education and adolescents in second-year secondary education. To do this, we use a propensity score matching approach to compare the impact of family structure on student performance, measured through grade retention and mathematics scores, with the results of standard econometric models. The results show that non-nuclear family membership has a significant negative impact on student grade retention with more significant differences among older students. In addition, this family structure is only found to have a consistently negative effect on mathematics scores for secondary education students.
Comparing group performance over time through the Luenberger productivity indicator: an application to school ownership in european countries
(European Journal of Operational Research, 2021) Aparicio, Juan; Ortiz, Lidia; Santín González, Daniel
This paper extends the Camanho and Dyson (2006) one-period Malmquist-type index (CDMI) and the recent pseudo-panel Malmquist index (PPMI) by Aparicio et al. (2017) and Aparicio and Santín (2018) to a context where additive efficiency measures are used. In particular, we apply the Luenberger productivity indicator. Unlike the CDMI, the new approach is based upon the directional distance function, allowing non-equiproportional changes in the input and output mix and variable returns to scale for comparing the efficiency and technology gaps of two or more groups of production units over time. To illustrate this methodology, we estimate how the productivity gaps between publicly funded private schools (PFPS) and public schools (PS) in eight European Union countries changed over the 2009–15 period using PISA data. Our results suggest that the performance of PFPS is better in Belgium, Ireland, the Netherlands and Spain in both waves, while PS productivity outperforms PFPS in the Czech Republic, Hungary and Slovakia. Both school types operate with a productivity gap close to zero in Denmark. In addition, we observe that despite being less efficient, PS are more productive than PFPS, thanks to their better production technology. Finally, we find that school autonomy is positively related to school productivity explaining why PFPS present higher productivity than PS in some countries.