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Calling their bluff: Expressed and revealed preferences of top college graduates entering teaching in Argentina
Ganimian, Alejandro; Alfonso, Mariana; Santiago, Ana - 2013
Many school systems today are trying to attract top college graduates into teaching, but little is known about what dissuades this target group from entering the profession. This study randomly assigned applicants for a highly-selective alternative pathway into teaching in Argentina either to a...
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Socioemotional learning in early childhood education: Experimental evidence from the think equal program's implementation in Colombia
Näslund-Hadley, Emma; Mateo Díaz, Mercedes; Santos, … - 2023
In this article we experimentally evaluate Colombia's Think Equal program, which teaches socioemotional skills to children ages 3 to 6. Given the context of COVID-19, the original design was adapted as a hybrid model, alternating in-person and remote instruction and engaging families in the...
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Hybrid parental training to foster play-based early childhood development: Experimental evidence from Mexico
Robles, Cecilia Berlanga Alessio; Näslund-Hadley, Emma; … - 2023
Play during early childhood is key to stimulating children's physical, social, emotional, and cognitive development. However, research on play-based learning is largely limited to high-income countries, and little is known about the use of hybrid interventions (which combine in-person and remote...
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Educación financiera y previsional a través del taller Ahorra desde Ahora: Evidencia de una evaluación de impacto en Chile
Bosch Mossi, Mariano; Caballero, Gustavo; Cofré, Fabián; … - 2018
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Corruption as a Self-Fulfilling Prophecy: Evidence from a Survey Experiment in Costa Rica
Gingerich, Daniel W.; Oliveros, Virgina; Corbacho, Ana; … - 2015
An influential body of scholarship argues that corruption behaves as a selffulfilling prophecy. The idea of this work … is that levels of corruption emerge endogenously as a result of a society-wide coordination game in which ther individual … returns to corrupt behavior are a function of how disposed towards corruption the other members of society are perceived as …
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Curbing grand corruption in the contracting out of public services lessons from a pilot study of the school meals program in Colombia
Keefer, Philip; Roseth, Benjamin - 2021
study of informal audits and text messages to parents, meant to curb corruption in the School Meals Program of Colombia …
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Frenando la gran corrupción en la contratación de servicios públicos: Lecciones de un estudio piloto del Programa de Alimentación Escolar en Colombia
Keefer, Philip; Roseth, Benjamin - 2021
study of informal audits and text messages to parents, meant to curb corruption in the School Meals Program of Colombia …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013178221
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Grand corruption in the contracting out of public services: Lessons from a pilot study in Colombia
Keefer, Philip; Roseth, Benjamin - 2021
study of informal audits and text messages to parents, meant to curb corruption in the School Meals Program of Colombia …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012604839
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When can lotteries improve public procurement processes?
Estache, Antonio; Foucart, Renaud; Serebrisky, Tomás - 2022
corruption risks often observed in negotiated procedures. For rule-based procedures, we show that a "third-price lottery" in …
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State Capacity and the Quality of Policies: Revisiting the Relationship between Openness and the Size of Government
Chuaire, María Franco; Scartascini, Carlos G.; … - 2014
The literature has identified that countries with higher levels of openness tend to present a larger government sector as a way to reduce the risks to the economy that openness entails. This paper argues that there are a number of policies that can mitigate trade-induced risks, many of which do...
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