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Early skill gap effects on long-run outcomes and parental investments

Celhay, Pablo A.; Gallegos, Sebastián - 2019

scores, and sizable effects on college attendance and enrollment at more selective institutions, in particular for low-income … children. Our findings suggest that parental time investments are neutral to early skills gaps, while monetary investments are …

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Child development in the early years : parental investment and the changing dynamics of different domains

Attanasio, Orazio P.; Bernal, Raquel; Giannola, Michele; … - 2021

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Stylized facts about the quantity and quality of parental time investments on the skill formation of their children

Torres, Javier; Agüero, Jorge M. - 2017

children vis-à-vis home production. This paper finds that, similarly to higher-income countries, there is a positive education … regarding the quantity and quality of parental time investment on the skill formation of their children. Traditional models of … household behavior have failed to account for the differential behavior of parents with respect to skill formation of their …

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Does an education major matter for teaching? : the relationship between teachers' degree and student achievement

Drouet, Marcelo; Elacqua, Gregory; Marotta, Luana; … - 2022

It is unclear whether teachers with a degree in education are more effective than those who are not trained in an education-related field. To further examine this issue, we analyze the relationship between teachers' college major and student achievement by using unique data from Ecuador, which,...

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Education inequalities in Latin America and the Caribbean

Fernández, Raquel; Pagés, Carmen; Székely, Miguel; … - 2023

interaction of education inequality with other forms of inequality, primarily income and labor market outcomes. Our analysis is …

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Teacher hiring instruments and teacher value added : evidence from Peru

Bertoni, Eleonora; Elacqua, Gregory; Méndez, Carolina; … - 2020

In this article, we explore whether the evaluation instruments used to recruit teachers in the national teacher hiring process in Peru are good predictors of teacher effectiveness. To this end, we estimate teacher value-added (TVA) measures for public primary school teachers in 2018 and test for...

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Talent, labor quality, and economic development German Cubas

Ravikumar, B.; Ventura, Gustavo - 2013

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The National Skills Qualification Framework in India: the promise and the reality

Mehrotra, Santosh K. - 2020

India's TVET system, by international standards, is at a very rudimentary level of development. TVET was a relatively neglected subject in India's educational planning, at least until the beginning of 2007. However, this changed with the 11th Plan (2007012). One dimension of this change was the...

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Math skills, selection in training firms, and post-training wages

Gholami, Mahdi; Mühlemann, Samuel - 2024

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Sex-differences in language and socio-emotional skills in early childhood

Bando Grana, Rosangela; López Bóo, Florencia; Li, Xia - 2016

This study explores sex differences in language and socio-emotional skills. It focuses on children 7 months old to 6 … years old in Chile in 2012 and Nicaragua in 2013. A focus on young children allowed for ruling out a set of environmental …

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