terms of growth. Included are case studies from seven countries in the region: Argentina, Brazil, Ecuador, Guatemala, Peru …, Nicaragua, Trinidad and Tobago. …

, 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 …

Results and analysis of a poll in Japan: Study of Latin American immigrants from Brazil, Peru, Bolivia, Argentina and …

Results and analysis of a poll in Japan: Study of Latin American immigrants from Brazil, Peru, Bolivia, Argentina and …

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

This presentation examines the quality of public provided child care versus alternative childcare options, its impact …? How important is the quality of daycare services for child development? The authors evaluate both the economic cost as … well as the quality of 100 daycare centers in Rio de Janeiro based on 470 items and 15 dimensions, over the course of one …

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