Research

Journal articles

Fontdevila, C., Zancajo, A., & Verger, A. (2024). Catholic Schools in the Marketplace: Changing and Enduring Religious Identities. Peabody Journal of Education, 99(4), 464–481.
Bonal, X., Pagès, M., Verger, A., & Zancajo, A. (2023). Regional policy trajectories in the Spanish education system: Different uses of relative autonomy. Education Policy Analysis Archives, 31.
Aldinucci, A., Valiente, O., Hurrell, S., & Zancajo, A. (2023). Understanding aspirations: why do secondary TVET students aim so high in Chile?. Journal of Vocational Education & Training, 1-22.
Zancajo, A., Verger, A., & Fontdevila, C. (2022). The instrumentation of public subsidies for private schools: Different regulatory models with concurrent equity implications. European Educational Research Journal, 21(1), 44-70.
Zancajo, A., Fontdevila, C., & Verger, A. (2022). Las Alianzas Público-Privadas en educación: debates, modelos y horizontes regulativos en los países de la OCDE. Journal of Supranational Policies of Education, (15), 6–32.
Zancajo, A., & Bonal, X. (2022). Education markets and school segregation: a mechanism-based explanation. Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education, 58(8), 1241-1258.
Scandurra, R., Zancajo, A., & Bonal, X. (2022). Opting out of neighbourhood schools: The role of local education markets in student mobility. Population, Space and Place, 28(5), e2542.
Zancajo, A., Verger, A., & Bolea, P. (2022). Digitalization and beyond: the effects of Covid-19 on post-pandemic educational policy and delivery in Europe. Policy and Society, 41(1), 111-128.
Bonal, X., Zancajo, A., & Scandurra, R. (2021). Student mobility and school segregation in an (un) controlled choice system: A counterfactual approach. British Educational Research Journal, 47(1), 42-64.
Valiente, O., Sepúlveda, L., & Zancajo, A. (2021). Development paradigms in the institutional configuration of vocational education and training in Chile (1964-2005). Journal of Vocational Education & Training, 73(2), 278-294.
Bonal, X., & Zancajo, A. (2020). Elección de escuela, movilidad y segregación escolar del alumnado vulnerable en Barcelona. REICE: Revista Iberoamericana sobre Calidad, Eficacia y Cambio en Educación, 18(4), 197-218.
Zancajo, A. (2020). Schools in the Marketplace: Analysis of School Supply Responses in the Chilean Education Market. Educational Policy, 34(1), 43-64.
Valiente, O., Zancajo, A., & Jacovkis, J. (2020). The coordination of skill supply and demand in the market model of skill formation: testing the assumptions for the case of Chile. International Journal of Lifelong Education, 39(1), 90-103.
Bonal, X., Zancajo, A., & Scandurra, R. (2019). Residential segregation and school segregation of foreign students in Barcelona. Urban Studies, 56(15), 3251-3273.
Zancajo, A. (2019). Education markets and schools’ mechanisms of exclusion: The case of Chile. Education Policy Analysis Archives, 27(130).
Zancajo, A., & Valiente, O. (2019). TVET policy reforms in Chile 2006–2018: between human capital and the right to education. Journal of Vocational Education & Training, 71(4), 579-599.
Bonal, X., & Zancajo, A. (2018). Demand rationalities in contexts of poverty: Do the Poor respond to market incentives in the same way?. International Journal of Educational Development, 59, 20-27.
Zancajo, A. (2018). Educational providers in the marketplace: Schools’ marketing responses in Chile. International Journal of Educational Research, 88, 166-176.
Verger, A., Fontdevila, C., & Zancajo, A. (2017). Multiple paths towards education privatization in a globalizing world: A cultural political economy review. Journal of Education Policy, 32(6), 757-787.
Bonal, X., Verger, A., & Zancajo, A. (2017). Making poor choices? Demand rationalities and school choice in a Chilean local education market. Journal of School Choice, 11(2), 258-281.
Valiente, O., & Zancajo, A. (2016). La formación profesional en España: efectos sobre la empleabilidad en tiempos de crisis. Linhas Críticas, 22(49), 532-551.
Valiente, O., & Zancajo, A. (2016). Formació professional i ocupabilitat a Catalunya. Revista econòmica de Catalunya, (74), 51-60.
Verger, A., Zancajo, A., & Fontdevila, C. (2016). La economía política de la privatización educativa: políticas, tendencias y trayectorias desde una perspectiva. Revista colombiana de educación, (70), 47-78.
Verger, A., Bonal, X., & Zancajo, A. (2016). What are the role and impact of public-private partnerships in education? A realist evaluation of the Chilean education quasi-market. Comparative Education Review, 60(2), 223-248.
Verger, A., Bonal, X., & Zancajo, A. (2016). Recontextualización de políticas y (cuasi) mercados educativos. Un análisis de las dinámicas de demanda y oferta escolar en Chile. Education Policy Analysis Archives, 24, 27-27.
Bonal, X., & Zancajo, A. (2016). Educació, pobresa i desigualtats en un context de crisi. Nota d’economia, 103.
Castejón, A., & Zancajo, A. (2015). Educational differentiation policies and the performance of disadvantaged students across OECD countries. European Educational Research Journal, 14(3-4), 222-239.
Castejón, A., & Zancajo, A. (2015). Inclusión, desigualdades y diversidad en la educación obligatoria: retos para el sistema educativo español y evidencias internacionales. In Organización y gestión educativa: Revista del Fórum Europeo de Administradores de la Educación, 23(1), 20-24.
Zancajo, A., Bonal, X., & Verger, A. (2014). Mercados educativos y segmentación de la oferta escolar: efectos sobre las desigualdades educativas en Chile. Témpora: Revista de historia y sociología de la educación, 17, 11-30.

Books

Zancajo, A., Fontdevila, C., Jabbar, H., & Verger, A. (Eds.). (2025). Research handbook on education privatization and marketization. Edward Elgar Publishing.
Zancajo, A., & Bueno, C. (2024). L’abandonament al batxillerat i als cicles formatius de grau mitjà. Barcelona: Fundació Jaume Bofill.
Zancajo, A., & Bueno, C. (2023). L’abandonament a 4t d’ESO: les desigualtats en la transició a l’educació postobligatòria. Barcelona: Fundació Jaume Bofill.
Zancajo, A., Verger, A., & Fontdevila, C. (2022). La educación concertada en España. Barcelona: Fundació Jaume Bofill.
Zancajo, A., Verger, A., & Fontdevila, C. (2022). La concertada a debat. Reformes contra les desigualtats educatives des d’una mirada internacional i comparada. Barcelona: Fundació Jaume Bofill.
Verger, A., Fontdevila, C., & Zancajo, A. (2016). The Privatization of Education. A Political Economy Approach to Global Education Reform. New York: Teachers College Press.
Bonal, X., Castejon, A., Zancajo, A., & Castel, J.L. (2015). Equitat i resultats educatius a Catalunya. Una mirada a partir de PISA-2012. Barcelona: Fundació Jaume Bofill.
Valiente, O., Scandurra, R., Zancajo, A., & Brown, C. (2015). Un model de formació professional dual per a Catalunya? Reptes en el disseny i implementació de la reforma. Barcelona: Fundació Jaume Bofill.
Valiente, O., Zancajo, A., & Tarriño, A. (2014). La Formació professional i l’ocupació a Catalunya. Una ullada als indicadors des d’un prespectiva comparada. Barcelona: Fundació Jaume Bofill.
Ferrer, F., Castel, J.L., Castejón, A., & Zancajo, A. (2011). PISA-2009: Avaluació de les desigualtats educatives a Catalunya. Barcelona: Editorial Mediterrània.

Book chapters

Bonal, X., Fontdevila, C., & Zancajo, A. (2023). The World Bank and education in a changing global arena. In R. J. Tierney, F. Rizvi, & K. Ercikan (Eds.), International Encyclopedia of Education (Fourth Edition) (pp. 480–487). Elsevier
Verger, A., Fontdevila, C., & Zancajo, A. (2023). The privatization of education. Drivers, social effects and regulatory challenges of private sector participation in schooling. In R. J. Tierney, F. Rizvi, & K. Ercikan (Eds.), International Encyclopedia of Education (Fourth Edition) (pp. 174–182). Elsevier
Zancajo, A., Fontdevila, C., & Verger, A. (2023). Markets in Education and School Segregation: Paths of Problematization and Reform. In: M. Verhoeven, J. Corvalán, V. Durpiez, & J.P. Valenzuela (Eds.) Education Markets and Segregation. Cham: Springer.
Zancajo, A., Verger, A., & Fontdevila, C. (2022). Educational Privatization: Expanding spaces and new global regulatory trends. In: F. Rizvi, B. Lingard, & R. Rinne (Eds.) Reimagining Globalization and Education (pp. 105-119). London: Routledge.
Zancajo, A., & Valiente, O. (2019). Evolución de las políticas de ETP en Chile: entre el capital humano y el derecho a la educación. In L. Sepúlveda & M.J. Valdebenito (Eds.) Educación Técnico Profesional ¿Hacia dónde vamos?: políticas, reformas y nuevos contextos de desarrollo. Ediciones Universidad Alberto Hurtado: Santiago de Chile.
Bonal, X., & Zancajo, A. (2018). School segregation in the Spanish quasi-market education system: local dynamics and policy absences. In X. Bonal & C. Bellei (Eds.) Understanding school segregation: patterns, causes and consequences of spatial inequalities in education (pp. 201-220). London, UK: Bloomsbury.
Verger, A., Zancajo, A., & Fontdevila, C. (2018). Experimenting with educational development: International actors and the promotion of private schooling in vulnerable contexts. In G. Steiner-Khamsi & A. Draxler (Eds.), The State, Business and Education: PPPs Revisited (pp. 16-38). Cheltenham UK/Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar.
Fontdevila, C., Verger, A., & Zancajo, A. (2017). Taking advantage of catastrophes: education privatization reforms in contexts of emergency. In T. Koinzer, R. Nikolai and F. Waldow (Eds.) Private Schools and School Choice in Compulsory Education. Global Change and National Challenge (pp. 223-244) Wiesbaden, Germany: Springer VS.
Verger, A., Fontdevila, C. and Zancajo, A. (2017). Privatization by Default in Low-Income Countries: The emergence and Expansion of Low-Fee Private Schools. In A. Verger, H.K. Altinyelken & M. Novelli. Global Education Policy and International Development. New Agendas, Issues and Policies (2nd edition) (pp. 255-276). London, UK: Bloomsbury Academic.
Ferrer, F.; Castejón, A., & Zancajo, A. (2013). Joventut i educació en temps de crisi. In P. Serracant, P. (Ed.). Enquesta de joventut de Catalunya 2012. Barcelona: Departament de Benestar i Família.

Reports and working papers

Fontdevila, C., Verger, A., & Zancajo, A. (2024). NEPC Review: Spark & Sustain How All the World’s School Systems Can Improve Learning at Scale (McKinsey & Company, February 2024). National Education Policy Center.
Bonal, X., Ferrer, G., & Zancajo, A. (2023). Desigualdades socioespaciales en la educación en Euskadi. Instituto Vasco de Investigación y Evaluación Educativa.
Zancajo, A., Fontdevila, C., Verger, A., & Bonal, X. (2021). Regulating Public-Private Partnerships, governing non-state schools: An equity perspective. Background paper elaborated for the 2021 Global Education Monitoring Report.
Zancajo, A. (2021). The impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on education. Rapid review of the literature. Paper elaborated for the ‘COVID-19 and Society’ British Academy project.
Zancajo, A. (2019). Drivers and Resistances to Regulation of Education Markets: The Political Economy of the Chilean Reform. (National Center for the Study of Privatization in Education, Working Paper 239), Teachers College, Columbia University.
Bonal, X., & Zancajo, A. (2019). Equivalència territorial en la planificació educativa a Barcelona: Diagnòstic i propostes. Consorci d’Educació de Barcelona
Verger, A., Bonal, X., & Zancajo, A. (2015). Indicators for a Broad and Bold Post-2015 Agenda: A Comprehensive Approach to Educational Development. Open Society Foundations.