, 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 …

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

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 …

borrowing and renegotiation experience of five Latin borrowers (Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, and Peru). Another goal is …

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

wealth Jamaica was the most unequal place in the pre-modern world. Furthermore, all of these characteristics applied to the …

We report the labor market effects of the Jamaica Early Childhood Stimulation intervention at age 31. The study is a … neighborhoods of Kingston, Jamaica. Implemented in 1987-1989, treatment consisted of a two-year home-based intervention designed to … improve nutrition and the quality of mother-child interactions to foster cognitive, language and psycho-social skills. The …

oil price shocks. We study two Caribbean economies highly vulnerable to oil price shocks, an oil-importer (Jamaica) and an …