The preferences of citizens and their satisfaction level for the actions carried out in the public sectors are usually established by questionnaires, taking into account the specificities and priorities of each city. No global methodology exists to collect and to treat information because of...

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 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

This paper presents the results of a survey of first year economics students at the University of Wollongong undertaken in 1995. The survey aimed to gauge student attitutdes towards economics as a discipline relative to other subjects taken within the Commerce degree. It was conducted in an...