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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 ...
Políticas para reducir las brechas educativas en la pospandemia
(CAF, 2021-08-17)
El cierre sin precedentes de las escuelas en casi todos los países y el efecto de la pandemia del COVID-19 en los ingresos y el bienestar de las familias han afectado negativamente los aprendizajes y la trayectoria educativa ...
Defensa de la competencia para impulsar la productividad
(CAF, 2021-07-13)
La crisis ocasionada por la pandemia profundiza algunos de los desafíos que la región ya tenía en cuanto a la defensa de la competencia y la promoción de la productividad. En particular, la crisis genera tensiones entre ...
Proyecciones de ingresos y egresos fiscales para los sistemas de educación, pensiones y salud en América Latina
(CAF, 2020-12-28)
América Latina se encuentra experimentando un proceso de envejecimiento demográfico con grados de avance heterogéneos entre los distintos países. Sin embargo, dos características comunes de dicho proceso contrastan con la ...
Local shocks in labor markets: competition and information flow among peers
(CAF, 2020-12-16)
We present causal evidence of the effect of local labor supply shocks on labor outcomes of young job seekers in a developing country. We study a large-scale internship program in Argentina that randomly alters job seekers’ ...
Motherhood and the missing women in the labor market
(CAF, 2018-09-06)
Motherhood currently stands out as a key determinant of the gender gap in labor market outcomes. Studies identifying the effect of children have mostly focused in Europe and the US. These results may not be extrapolated ...
Poor Little Children: The Socioeconomic Gap in Parental Responses to School Disadvantage
(CAF, 2017-11-08)
In this paper, we study how parents react to a widely-used school policy that puts some children at a learning disadvantage. Specifically, we first document that, in line with findings in other countries, younger children ...
Education, signaling and the allocation of entrepreneurial skills
(CAF, 2017-10-02)
We assess the allocative importance of education when workers can choose to self-employ. To do so, we build a model combining educational choices with the labor market and selfemployment. Education can increase workers' ...
Rules vs. Discretion in Public Service: Teacher Hiring in Mexico
(CAF, 2017-08-18)
In this paper, I use a unique empirical setting that allows me to compare the performance of teachers hired in a discretionary process led by the teachers’ union in Mexico with the performance of those hired on the basis ...
The Effect of the Increasing Demand for Elite Schools on Stratification
(CAF, 2017-05-31)
I use detailed applications data to document a case in which, contrary to prevailing concerns, increasing school stratification by ability co-existed with stable stratification by family income: Mexico City public high ...