Desde la perspectiva del comercio internacional la prestación de servicios, en particular la de servicios públicos, ha sido un tema reciente. En el caso de la educación este tema se consideraba tradicionalmente como una actividad propia del Estado, asociada al concepto de servicio público....

ABSTRACTWe investigate the effect of education Conditional Cash Transfer programs (CCTs) on teenage pregnancy. Our main concern is with how the size and sign of the effect may depend on the design of the program. Using a simple model we show that an education CCT that conditions renewal on...

Abstract: This paper asks whether school based management may help reducing risky sexual behavior of teenagers. For this purpose we use student level data from Bogota to identify students from Concession School (CS), who are enrolled in public education system with a more school management...

Abstract: This paper explores the correlation between school factors and the differentiated results on sexual behavior between boys and girls in Bogota. A school stratified propensity score matching was performed to match each boy of the sample with the most similar girls in individual,...

In order to present an estimation of the Internal Rate of Return (IRR) to higher education in Colombia we take advantage of the methodological approach provided by Heckman, Lochner and Todd (2005). Trying to overcome the criticism that surrounds interpretations of the education coefficient of...

This paper provides new evidence on the effect of pupil´s self-motivation andacademic assets allocation on the academic achievement in sciences acrosscountries. By using the Programme for International Student Assessment 2006 (PISA2006) test we find that both explanatory variables have a...

In this paper I consider the role of optimal education policies in redistribution when individuals differ in two aspects: ability and inherited wealth. I discuss the extent to which the rules that emerge in unidimensional settings apply also in the bidimensional setting considered in this paper....

El artículo presenta nuevas formas de abordar los resultados de estudiantes y colegios en los exámenes de estado del ICFES. Incorporando las críticas recibidas por diferentes publicaciones, en donde se comparan los colegios de acuerdo al puntaje promedio obtenido por cada uno de ellos, se...

Las deficiencias que registran los diferentes países de América Latina en los indicadores relacionados con el rendimiento escolar y la calidad educativa han sido un tema recurrente en la agenda política de los gobiernos de la región durante las últimas décadas. Diferentes estudios sugieren...

Se evalúa el impacto redistributivo de las políticas educativas en Bogotá mediante elAnálisis de Incidencia del Beneficio. A pesar que los hogares son autónomos conrespecto a la elección entre la educación oficial y no oficial, la provisión pública de laeducación genera fuertes...