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A snapshot on the quality of seven home visit parenting programs in Latin America and the Caribbean
Leer, Jane; López Bóo, Florencia; Perez Expósito, Ana; … - 2016
Although there is ample support for the causal link between home visit parenting programs and child development outcomes, few studies have explored what it is that drives this relationship – to what extent home visit programs are implemented as designed in terms of the content and strategies...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011571942
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Informality and macroeconomic fluctuations
Fiess, Norbert M. (contributor); Fugazza, Marco (contributor) - 2008
with and without wage rigidities. The paper then explores time series data from Argentina, Brazil, Colombia and Mexico to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003722146
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Evolving wage cyclicality in Latin America
Gambetti, Luca; Messina, Julián - 2017
Examines the evolution of the cyclicality of real wages and employment in four Latin American economies: Brazil, Chile …, Colombia and Mexico, during the period 1980-2010. Wages are highly pro-cyclical during the 1980s and early 1990s, a period …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011636567
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Subsidizing vocational training for disadvantaged youth in developing countries : evidence from a randomized trial
Attanasio, Orazio P.; Kugler, Adriana D.; Meghir, Costas - 2009
This paper evaluates the impact of a randomized training program for disadvantaged youth introduced in Colombia in 2005 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003858877
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The impact of Colombia's pension and health insurance systems on informality
Calderón, Valentina; Marinescu, Ioana E. - 2012
concentrated among independent workers. -- informal sector ; pensions ; health insurance ; social protection ; Colombia …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009534973
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Assessing the long-term effects of conditional cash transfers on human capital : evidence from Colombia
Baez, Javier E.; Camacho, Adriana - 2011
cohorts of children from poor households that benefited up to nine years from Familias en Acción, a CCT in Colombia, attained …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009308106
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How forced displacements caused by a violent conflict affect wages in Colombia
Gimenez-Nadal, José Ignacio; Molina, José Alberto; … - 2016
Colombia, a country characterized by a long historical prevalence of violent conflicts between the government, the militia …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011475088
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The effect of grade retention on secondary school performance : evidence from a natural experiment
Ferreira Sequeda, Maria; Golsteyn, Bart H. H.; … - 2018
We study the effects of grade retention on secondary school performance by considering a change in Colombia's educative …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011874496
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The unintended consequences of merit-based teacher selection : evidence from a large-scale reform in Colombia
Busso, Matias; Montaño, Sebastián; Muñoz-Morales, Juan; … - 2024
design systems to hire the most effective teachers. This paper examines the effects of a national policy reform in Colombia …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015062092
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Spillovers from conditional cash transfer programs : Bolsa Família and crime in urban Brazil
Chioda, Laura; Mello, Joao M. P. de; Soares, Rodrigo Reis - 2012
combining detailed school characteristics with time and geo-referenced crime information from the city of São Paulo, Brazil, we … ; Brazil …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009532288