World Development Report 2006 overextends the role of inequality and redistribution in development processes by overemphasizing relevant but particular efficiency-equity complementarities, by conflating domestic and international equality issues, and by naively integrating economic and political...

Research in the field of economic development is increasingly engaged with questions of political economy, of how political choices, institutional structures, and forms of governance influence the economic choices made by governments and citizens. We summarize recent developments in the field...

Empirical studies of the relationship between school inputs and test scores typically do not account for the fact that households will respond to changes in school inputs. We present a dynamic household optimization model relating test scores to school and household inputs, and test its...

Tanto las habilidades cognitivas como las no cognitivas (socio-emocionales) son importantes para comprender las oportunidades que tienen los niños y los resultados de aquellas en su adultez. Sin embargo, no es claro cómo se producen las habilidades no cognitivas y qué rol juegan las...