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Better Luck Next Time: Learning through Retaking
Krishna, Kala; Lychagin, Sergey; Yavas, Cemile; … - Inter-American Development Bank - 2014
This paper provides some evidence that repeat taking of competitive exams may reduce the impact of background disadvantages on educational outcomes. Using administra- tive data on the university entrance exam in Turkey, the paper estimates cumulative learning between the first and the nth...
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Equidad en la distribución de la oferta de educación pública en Argentina
Bezem, Pablo - Inter-American Development Bank - 2012
Las escuelas pobres para "pobres" cristalizan la brecha social y profundizan las desigualdades. En otras palabras, las condiciones materiales de las escuelas pueden tener un efecto redistributivo porque impactan positivamente sobre el aprendizaje y contrarrestan la incidencia del nivel...
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Assesing Educational Equality and Equity with Large-Scale Assessment Data: Brazil as a Case Study
Willms, J. Douglas; Tramonte, Lucía; Duarte, Jesús; … - Inter-American Development Bank - 2012
Researchers have defined and assessed inequalities and inequities in education in various ways, making it difficult to make comparisons among countries or among jurisdictions within countries. This paper sets out practical definitions for equality and equity in education and discusses the...
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Calidad, igualdad y equidad en la educación colombiana (Análisis de la prueba SABER 2009)
Duarte, Jesús; Bos, María Soledad; Moreno, Martín - Inter-American Development Bank - 2012
Esta Nota Técnica describe la desigualdad en los aprendizajes de los alumnos colombianos y analiza la equidad en la distribución de los recursos y procesos que ocurren en la escuela y su relación con los aprendizajes. Usando la base de datos del SABER 2009, el análisis muestra que en...
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Intergenerational Mobility, Middle Sectors and Entrepreneurship in Uruguay
Gandelman, Nestor; Robano, Virginia - Inter-American Development Bank - 2012
This paper estimates the relationship between parents’ educational attainment and income and children’s schooling in Uruguay between 1982 and 2010. This relationship is interpreted as a measure of intergenerational social mobility, and the paper reports evidence that it has decreased over...
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Innovation in the knowledge economy : implications for education and learning
2004
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Improving Agricultural Knowledge and Innovation Systems : OECD Conference Proceedings
2012
This conference proceedings from the OECD Conference on Agricultural Knowledge Systems (AKS), held in Paris, on 15 … innovation to meet global food security and climate change challenges. The conference considered developments in institutional … frameworks, public and private roles and partnerships, regulatory frameworks conducive to innovation, the adoption of innovations …
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An Innovative School in Torcy, France
1999
The Torcy Junior High School is located on the outskirts of the new town of Marne la Vallée in the Paris suburbs, between a motorway and a stretch of ordinary countryside on a site overlooking a small lake. Special attention was paid to its geographic setting and to the various aspects of its...
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Unraveling the network of the extractive industries
Balza, Lenin H.; Rios Rueda, Camilo de los; Guerra, Alfredo - Inter-American Development Bank - 2021
This paper analyzes extractive industries in Colombia and their connections to other economic activities in the country. We use detailed social security data on all formal employees to create an industry-relatedness measure using labor flows between industries. Drawing on the vast network...
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Building in an Evaluation Component for Active Labor Market Programs: A Practitioner's Guide
Card, David E.; Ibarraran, Pablo; Villa, Juan Miguel - Inter-American Development Bank - 2011
The guide outlines the main evaluation challenges associated with ALMP’s, and shows how to obtain rigorous impact estimates using two leading evaluation approaches. The most credible and straightforward evaluation method is a randomized design, in which a group of potential participants is...
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