Covering the full population of applicants to the Jamaican Conditional Cash Transfer Program (PATH), we explore whether receiving PATH since childhood altered the academic gains from attending a more preferred public secondary school. To uncover causal associations, we implement a double...

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...

En diciembre de 2012, 2013 y 2014 he publicado en la Serie Documentos de Trabajo de UCEMA tres papers en el cual analicé 58 notas de opinión que he publicado a lo largo de casi cuatro años y medio en diversos matutinos porteños, motivadas en eventos de nuestra realidad educativa. De las...

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...

Many targeted childhood interventions such as the Perry Preschool Project select eligible children based on a risk score. The variables entering the risk score and their corresponding weights are usually chosen ad hoc and are unlikely to be optimal. This paper develops a simple economic model...

Conditional cash transfer programmes have been increasingly adopted by several low and middle-income countries. Despite this overall acceptance, conditionalities remain under scrutiny regarding their possible independent effects on educational and health indicators. This paper is an ecological...

Proximity augments homeless students' educational outcomes. Homeless K-8 graders whose families are placed in shelters near their schools have 8 percent (2.4 days) better attendance, are a third (18 percentage points) less likely to change schools, and exhibit higher rates of proficiency and...

A high level of public services in housing, transport, education and health care is essential for liveability in urban centres, as shown in this report, with the help of European data for large cities. Inhabitants of larger cities, where the housing market is heavily commercialised in terms of...

This paper provides new evidence that preventive health care services delivered at schools and provided at a relatively low cost have positive and lasting impacts. We use variation from a 1999-reform in Norway that induced substantial differences in the avail-ability of health professionals...