En diciembre de 2012 he publicado en esta serie de Documentos de Trabajo un paper en el cual analizaba 22 notas de opinión que había escrito a lo largo de casi dos años y medio en diversos matutinos porteños. De las mismas se podía concluir que la educación argentina se encontraba en...

This study reports evidence from an unusual policy intervention - The Reaching Out of School Children (ROSC) project - in Bangladesh where school grants and education allowances are offered to attract hard-to-reach children to schools comprised of a single teacher and a classroom. The operating...

We evaluate the causal effects of a program that constructed high quality girl-friendly primary schools in Burkina Faso, using a regression discontinuity design 2.5 years after the program started. We find that the program increased enrollment of all children between the ages of 5 and 12 by 20...

At the end of 2001, the Indian Supreme Court issued a directive ordering states to institute school lunches - known locally as "midday meals" - in government primary schools. This paper provides a large-scale assessment of the enrollment effects of India's midday meal scheme, which offers warm...