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Conflicting Incentives: Government Financial Aid, Vocational-to-University Track Change and Graduates’ Wages in Chile
(CAF, 2020-10-16)
Although literature on education economic returns is not un- common, research focusing in vocational students is quite scarce. This paper addresses labor market outcomes of vocational high schools’ students and their ...
Brecha de habilidades de los jóvenes en el mercado laboral colombiano
(CAF, 2020-07-21)
La brecha de habilidades entre la oferta y la demanda laboral explica parcialmente la desfavorable situación laboral de los jóvenes. Este estudio mide el desajuste entre las habilidades que requiere la demanda de trabajo ...
Tripping at the Finish Line Experimental Evidence on the Road of Misperceptions on Secondary School Completion
(CAF, 2022-06-14)
In Argentina, more than 90 percent of teenagers are enrolled in upper secondary school, but only 50 percent graduate on time. I conducted a field experiment in Salta, Argentina, to test if lack of information about how ...
See it to believe it. Experimental evidence on status consumption among the youth.
(CAF, 2022-09-27)
We ran a field experiment in which a 20-year-old chooses be-tween a socially visible and a non-socially visible good after a friend randomly received one of these goods or an unknown good. We find no differences in choices ...
Igualdad de oportunidades educativas: un indicador sencillo para América Latina
(CAF, 2021-12-07)
Este documento presenta estimaciones para América Latina de un indicador simple de igualdad de oportunidades educativas que mide el grado en que las variables de entorno familiar (ingreso y educación de los padres) dan ...
Expectations about Returns to Education. The Role of Parental and Youths’ Characteristics
(CAF, 2022-01-17)
Investing in human capital requires, among others, access and capacity to process information. This paper focuses on understanding the role of expected returns to education in determining schooling decisions. Using data ...
Learning About Opportunity: Spillovers of Elite School Admissions in Peru
(CAF, 2021-03-29)
This paper studies how the admission of a student to an elite school changes the schooling outcomes of younger cohorts in the student’s origin school in Peru. Using a sharp regression discontinuity design, the analysis ...
Misallocated Talent: Teen Pregnancy, Education and Job Sorting in Colombia
(CAF, 2021-04-20)
Policy makers and international organizations often argue that teenage pregnancy affects girls’ life trajectories by, for example, limiting their employment opportunities. These concerns are amplified in regions with high ...
Local externalities in labor markets: congestion and information flow among peers
(CAF, 2020-12-16)
We explore local externalities in labor markets, exploiting the random assignment of a large-scale internship program in Argentina. Examining the probability of registered employment in the 12 months after the program, we ...
Spatial inequalities in educational opportunities: The role of public policies
(CAF, 2021-12-17)
This paper documents spatial patterns in intergenerational mobility at the top of the educational distribution and assess the role of public policies in increasing educational opportunities. Our analysis relies on novel ...