quality and fidelity of implementation in home visit programs in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) does not exist. In … light of this gap, this note presents a snapshot of home visit quality in seven countries in which home visits reach a … order to ensure implementation quality. …

evaluates the impact of a cash transfer program, the Bono de Desarrollo Humano of Ecuador, on students' cognitive achievements …

This paper analyzes the individual-level determinants of wage inequality for Bolivia, Colombia, and Ecuador from 2001 … Ecuador, and a mere 2.4 percent in Bolivia. Our findings show that the sources of income inequality can differ substantially … educational attainment to form part of one's own responsibility the Colombian income distribution appears more equal than Bolivia …

Ecuador experienced an unprecedented wave of international migration since the late 1990s, triggered by a severe … economic and financial crisis. This paper gathers individual-level data from Ecuador and the two main destinations of …

In this paper we examine the effect of birth order on human capital development in Ecuador using a large national … potential mechanisms we find that earlier born children receive less quality time from their mothers than later born children … growing up in poor, low educated families. -- birth order ; human capital development ; parental time allocation ; Ecuador …

Ecuador. Two years after families lost the transfer, which they had received for seven years, their young children weigh less …