, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, and Peru. Categories of quality determinants include training and curriculum, infrastructure … novel survey to collect program-level information on quality determinants and average outcomes for Brazil, Colombia … and Ecuador and match it to survey data. Using machine learning methods, we select the quality determinants that predict …

This paper summarizes empirical findings from a series of recent papers studying a replication of the Jamaica Reach Up … original program. An analysis of it facilitates investigation of the skills generated by Jamaica Reach Up and Learn. We find …, treatment effect sizes and skill growth curves are comparable across the Jamaica and China REACH interventions, despite …

study the impact of a virtually-delivered intervention on positive parenting practices in Jamaica. We find the intervention …

caregivers over the course of seven years after enrollment into daycare. At the end of 2007, the city of Rio de Janeiro in Brazil …

sample of four emerging small open economies: Argentina, Ecuador, Venezuela, and Brazil. We postulate a stochastic volatility …

After the economic reforms that followed the National Revolution of the 1950s, Bolivia seemed positioned for sustained … and a fixed exchange rate policy during the 1970s led to a debt crisis that began in 1977. From 1977 to 1986, Bolivia lost … almost all the gains in GDP per capita that it had achieved since 1960. In 1986, Bolivia started to grow again, interrupted …

for Brazil, Chile, and Mexico; risk tolerance for Argentina, Costa Rica, and Peru …