In Uruguay, as all over the world, the Caesarean section rate has been systematically increasing, and in 2003 it reached 23 per cent of the deliveries in public hospitals and 42 per cent in private hospitals. Considering deliveries registered in 2003 (23.474) by the Perinatal Information System...

El objetivo de este estudio es analizar y brindar evidencia sobre el impacto distributivo del gasto público social en educación y cultura en la Provincia de Buenos Aires para el año 2010, utilizando para ello la Encuesta Anual de Hogares Urbanas (EAHU) realizada durante el tercer trimestre de...

This article studies from the hierarchical linear models, the hypothesis of positive incidence that the variables of pedagogy and educational commitment generate on the academic performance. For this, the scores obtained by 62769 middle school students in the 2012 PISA tests in 12 countries are...

This work has as main objective to determine the effect country, type of institution (its ownership, public or private) and their resources on educational outcomes for students of Latin-American education system from PISA 2009. The results obtained by applying a multilevel analysis reveal that...

In this work we study the effect on the current expending of different models of managing the university budget, establishing different expenditure control policies, both in the way of managing and when introducing technological improvements. A panel data of expenditures in several basic...

At the same time that researching on social inclusion and collectives in social exclusion risk is going forward, the role played by families becomes more and more important for its social inclusion and future life. The collective of people with disabilities claims the correct working of their...

The paper provides a review of laws and other actions that have been undertaken in recent years in Argentina to improve education. Review is focused on the Province of Tucumán, where he studied education policy and some of their results. It analyzes the contents of the Federal Education Law No....

In this work we study the effect on the current expending of different models of managing the university budget, establishing different expenditure control policies, both in the way of managing and when introducing technological improvements. A panel data of expenditures in several basic...