This paper estimates the effect of school and student characteristics on academic performance. Using data for 2002, the paper applies stochastic frontier techniques to estimate the level of technical efficiency of a sample of 4,542 public and private schools. Our findings indicate that both...

En este ensayo estudiamos los orígenes académicos de una de las ramas más dinámicas de la historia económica en las últimas décadas. Aunque hubo unos antecedentes en la década de 1960 entre algunos historiadores de la escuela de los Annales, principalmente Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie, fue...

Se presenta un análisis crítico a la evolución del sistema científico y la comunidad académica de laRepública Bolivariana de Venezuela, teniendo como horizonte temporal la última década, la cualcoincide con la presencia del gobierno revolucionario. De esta manera, se abordan las...

Estimating the impact of changing school inputs on student performance is often difficult because these inputs are endogenously determined. We investigate a quasi-experiment that altered the number of instructional days prior to a nationwide test in Mexico. Our exogenous source of variation...

We use a database generated by a policy intervention that incentivized learning as measured by standardized exams to investigate empirically the relationship between cheating by students and cash incentives to students and teachers. We adapt methods from the education measurement literature to...

The gender gap measured by average number of years of schooling for the Brazilian population had favored the male population up to the 1980 Census. In 1991, though it was reversed and women averaged .26 year more of schooling than their male counterparts. These aggregated statistics fudge...

This paper analyses the hypothesis under which the improvement on the educational level in the last few decades has also increased the velocity of income convergence for the Brazilian Regions. The originality of this paper, associated with its microrregional delimitation, contributes to a...

This paper focuses on the impact that two different types of policy interventions, namely enhancing school quality and contingent cash transfers , have on child labour and school attendance in Mexico. While there are many studies on the impact of Oportunidades on schooling outcomes, little...