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The Effect of Cash Transfers to Schools on Voluntary Contributions

Bando, Rosangela - 2014

School-based management programs aim to improve education outcomes by involving parents in allocation decisions about … external funds transferred to the school. This paper explores the effects of two school-based management programs on parental …

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Information Technology and Student Achievement: Evidence from a Randomized Experiment in Ecuador

Carrillo, Paul; Onofa, Mercedes; Ponce, Juan - 2011

This paper studies the effects of information and communication technologies (ICT) in the school environment on educational achievement. To quantify these effects, the impact is evaluated of a project run by the municipality of Guayaquil, Ecuador, which provides computer-aided instruction in...

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Economic Crisis and Fiscal Reforms in Latin America

Hallerberg, Mark; Scartascini, Carlos - 2011

The recent financial crisis has initiated pressures for not only policy reform but also fundamental institutional fiscal reforms. This paper explores the connection between economic crises and fiscal institutional reforms in a region that has experienced plenty of both in recent years, namely...

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The Political Economy of Productivity. The Case of Chile

Aninat, Cristobal; Benavente, Jose Miguel; Briones, Ignacio - 2010

This paper analyzes the political economy of productivity-related policymaking in Chile following a political transaction cost model (Spiller and Tommasi, 2003; Murillo et al., 2008). The main findings indicate that i) the Chilean policymaking process (PMP) was successful in the 1990s in...

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Origins of Latin American inequality

Eslava, Francisco; Caicedo, Felipe Valencia - 2023

, education and the role of elites. Finally, we conduct a "replication" exercise with some seminal papers in the literature …

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Streaking to success: The effects of highlighting streaks on student effort and learning

Aulagnon, Raphaëlle; Cristia, Julian; Cueto, Santiago; … - 2024

We examine whether highlighting streaks encourages 4th to 6th grade students in Peru to increase their use of an online math platform and improve learning. Sixty thousand students were randomly assigned to receive messages that i) highlighted streaks, ii) provided personalized reminders with...

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The geography of intergenerational mobility in Latin America and the Caribbean

Muñoz S., Ercio - 2024

This paper estimates intergenerational mobility in education using data from 91 censuses in 24 countries in Latin … complete one educational stage more than their parents (primary education for those whose parents did not finish primary school …, or secondary education for those whose parents did not complete secondary school). It measures downward mobility as the …

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Reducing parent-school information gaps and improving education outcomes: Evidence from high-frequency text messages

Berlinski, Samuel G.; Busso, Matias; Dinkelman, Taryn; … - 2021

scalable information intervention can improve education outcomes in lower-income settings. …

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Does education prevent job loss during downturns? Evidence from exogenous schools assignments and COVID-19 in Barbados

Beuermann, Diether W.; Bottan, Nicolas L.; Hoffmann, Bridget - 2021

Canonical human capital theories posit that education, by enhancing worker skills, reduces the likelihood that a worker … education records from 1987 through 2002 to nationally representative surveys conducted before and after the onset of COVID-19 … in Barbados to explore the causal impact of improved education on job loss during this period. Using a regression …

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Government fragmentation and educational outcomes: Evidence on the creation of municipalities in Chile

Alcaíno, Manuel; Jaimovich, Analía; Méndez, Carolina; … - 2022

We explore how government fragmentation affects public education provision by examining the case of Chile, which … classroom teachers and school management teams in newly created municipalities. In contrast, we found that reducing the size of …

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