Analysis of Mexico’s household income and expenditure as state panel data reveal that increased spending for public education can have and did have significant effects on enrollment and educational transition. First it is shown that although the effects of federal education transfers are...

En los últimos años se ha encontrado de manera consistente que el rendimiento de los estudiantes peruanos en general ha sido bajo. Las razones por las que esto ocurre han sido poco estudiadas, pero entre ellas se podrían citar las oportunidades de aprendizaje (ODA). En el presente estudio se...

A mediados del 2003 el Ministerio de Educación inició un programa piloto cuyo objetivo fue incrementar la asistencia diaria y la permanencia en clase de los docentes a través de un sistema de incentivos para los maestros en algunas zonas rurales del Perú. Los docentes que lograran la META...

El presente documento de trabajo tiene por objeto presentar y analizar los datos de la evaluación del impacto educativo de un programa de desayunos escolares en escuelas rurales de la zona altoandina del Perú. En la evaluación se comparan medidas de peso, talla, tasas de matrícula y...

Peer interactions have been argued to play a major role in student academic achievement. Recent work has focused on measuring the structure of peer interactions with the location of the student in their social network and has found a positive relationship between student popularity and academic...

In this paper we study the determinants of the choice between public and private subsidized schools in the Chilean voucher system. Our empirical results confirm the effects of parent's income and education: higher income and more education increase the pr

This paper uses parametric and semiparametric techniques to examine educational inequality by geographical areas in Chile. The differences in achievement are also investigated across school types administration (public, private subsidized and private fee

This paper presents a theoretical model and empirical estimations to evaluate the effects of competition on school quality. Empirical estimations, using roughly 5,000 Chilean schools in the 1994-1997 period and econometric techniques robust to endogeneity

The Chilean voucher system implemented during the eighties, allows parents to choose between municipal and private subsidized schools. Its main purpose was to improve the quality and efficiency of education. Despite the improvements suggested by some indi

In this paper the economic return to formal education in Chile is estimated. The construction of an earnings-profile for each educational level is a basic ingredient in the computation of the rate of return. The paper uses a much larger sample than previo