This paper presents a comprehensive empirical analysis of the impact of attending a child day care center on early childhood development (ECD) in Chile, examining child development from a multi-dimensional perspective. The potential endogeneity associated with the parental decision of sending...

The following presentation provides the results of a study of the impacts of enrollment in child-care centers on cognitive development in children over the age of two. The data is taken from a random sample of 650 children (aged 6 months-5 years) living in Santiago, Chile. The model used...

This paper analyzes gender differences in the Chilean labor market, formally addressing the selection of individuals into schooling levels and its impact on gender gaps. The paper utilizes a new and rich data set containing information on labor market outcomes, schooling attainment and schooling...

The objective of this paper is to study the Chilean labor market and determine the presence or absence of gender discrimination. In order to transcend the limitations of earlier works, an experimental design is used, the first of its kind in Chile. This study also allows socioeconomic...

This paper analyzes gender differences in three Chilean professional labor markets, business, law and medicine, utilizing a new and rich data set collected for this purpose. The results show that differences in wages attributed to gender are only present in the legal profession. In...

This paper studies the effect of mandated employer-provided child care on the wages of women hired in large firms in Chile. We use a unique employer-employee database from the country's unemployment insurance (UI) system containing monthly information for all individuals that started a new...

El presente informe presenta una detallada revisión de los estudios empíricos que examinan el efecto de la participación en programas de capacitación sobre el desempeño en el mercado laboral. La revisión discute los efectos estimados para distintos grupos socioeconómicos y demográficos,...

Esta nota resume los mayores avances y desafíos del sistema educativo chileno. El mensaje principal es claro: Chile debe extender sus éxitos de cobertura al aseguramiento de una educación de calidad. La nota incluye un análisis de los logros y desafíos de cada nivel del sistema educativo...

En este trabajo realizamos una detallada revisión de los estudios empíricos en los que examinamos el efecto de la participación en programas de capacitación en el desempeño de los trabajadores en el mercado laboral. Asimismo discutimos los efectos estimados para distintos grupos...

Mediante a análise de informações recolhidas em primeira mão por meio de duas grandes pesquisas -uma sobre trajetórias e habilidades, realizada no Chile e Argentina em 2008 e 2010, respectivamente, e outra sobre demanda de habilidades, entre empresários da Argentina, Brasil e Chile, levada...