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Preschool Education in Brazil : Does Public Supply Crowd Out Private Enrollment?

Bastos, Paulo - 2013

This paper examines whether an expansion in the supply of public preschool crowds out private enrollment, using rich data for municipalities in Brazil from 2000-2006, where federal transfers to local governments change discontinuously with given population thresholds. Results from a...

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Learning About Oneself : The Effects of Performance Feedback on School Choice

Bobba, Matteo - 2017

This paper designs and implements a field experiment that provides students from less advantaged backgrounds with individualized feedback on academic performance during the transition from middle to high school. The intervention reduces the gap between expected and actual performance, as well as...

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Motivation, Resources and the Organization of the School System

Albornoz, Facundo - 2017

This paper studies a model where student effort and talent interact with parental and teachers' investments, as well as with school system resources. The model is rich, yet sufficiently stylized to provide novel implications. It can show, for example, that an improvement in parental outside...

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Re-Estimating the Gender Gap in Colombian Academic Performance

Muñoz, Juan Sebastián - 2014

This paper presents evidence of the relationship between the disparity in the academic performance of boys and girls in Colombia and the country's excessively high school dropout rates. By using the OLS and trimming for bounds techniques, and based on data derived from the PISA 2009 database,...

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Protecting Workers Against Unemployment in Latin America and the Caribbean : Evidence from Argentina

González-Rozada, Martín - 2012

This paper takes advantage of several reforms that provide time and cross sectional variation to identify the effects of unemployment insurance and severance payments on the duration of unemployment and on the separation probability in Argentina. Administrative data permits analysis of the...

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Technology and Child Development : Evidence from the One Laptop Per Child Program

Cristia, Julian - 2012

Although many countries are aggressively implementing the One Laptop per Child (OLPC) program, there is a lack of empirical evidence on its effects. This paper presents the impact of the first large-scale randomized evaluation of the OLPC program, using data collected after 15 months of...

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The Effect of Temporary Contracts on Human Capital Accumulation in Chile

Carpio, Susana - 2011

This paper studies the probability of receiving employer-paid training and training independently of who finance it for permanent and temporary workers in Chile. We use data from the Social Protection Survey, EPS, which allow us to construct a panel of workers with information from 2002, 2004,...

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The Effects of Punishment of Crime in Colombia on Deterrence, Incapacitation, and Human Capital Formation

Guarin, Arlen - 2015

Using individual data on persons arrested in the Medellin Metropolitan Area, this paper assesses whether the change in punishment at age 18, mandated by law, has a deterrent effect on arrests. No deterrent effect was found on index, violent or property crimes, but a deterrence effect was found...

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Impact of Early Life Shocks on Human Capital Formation : El Nino Floods in Ecuador

Rosales, Maria - 2015

children's health and cognitive outcomes, and explores whether shocks at certain periods matter more than others. The paper … variation in children's exposure to a negative shock at different periods early in life. It is shown that children exposed to …, children affected by the floods in the first trimester of pregnancy score lower on cognitive tests. Potential mechanisms are …

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Human Capital Policies : What They Can and Cannot Do for Productivity and Poverty Reduction in Latin America

Duryea, Suzanne - 2014

Raising labor productivity is recognized as a critical factor for increasing economic growth and reducing poverty levels in Latin America. Low levels of education continue to be singled out as the main obstacle to higher productivity in the region. We examine the scope for education to lift...

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