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This is the first study exploring the causal effect of education on teenage fertility in Argentina. We exploit an … exogenous variation in education from the staggered implementation of the 1993 reform, which increased compulsory schooling from … 7 to 10 years. We find a negative overall impact of education on teenage fertility rates, which operates through two …
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We present a review of the science, technology and innovation (STI) policies applied in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) between 1945 and 2010. We show the long term evolution of economic and social indicators in correspondence with STI input and output indicators. We describe the role of...
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lifetime education, health, income, and productivity. Losses in long-term earnings from preprimary program closures due to …
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discussed the need for profound changes in the organization and financing of the education system. At the time, the governors … promoted insightful educational reforms following political orientation, prevailing in the period an education to serve the …
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Currently the world is going through an unprecedented health, social, human and economic crisis due to the pandemic caused by the disease COVID-19. Even though in the current health crisis derived from COVID-19, the frequency of infection and mortality in the child population are lower than in...
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The current report presents and overview of the child labour phenomenon in the Latin America and Caribbean (LAC) region over recent years. It represents part of a broader effort to improve understanding of how child labour is changing over time in the region, and to ensure that policies relating...
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This paper characterizes household spending in education using microdata from income and expenditure surveys for 12 … in education while Bolivia, Brazil and Paraguay have the lowest. Tertiary education is the most important form of … spend more in the education of household members. Households with both parents present and those with a female main income …
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