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Understanding the Math Gender Gap in Latin American Countries
(CAF, 2015-12)
This paper documents that the math gender gap in Latin America is larger than in other developing or developed countries and that such gap do not decrease after controlling for individual, family and school characteristics. ...
Education, Signaling and Mismatch
(CAF, 2016-06)
We assess the importance education as a signal of workers skills and the e¤ects of poor signaling quality on labor market outcomes. We do so by merging a frictional labor market model with a signaling setup where there is ...
Local economic development. Some cities develop more than others: specialization, human capital and institutions
(CAF, 2009)
Why does a certain metropolitan area grow more than another? The answer to this question has evaded much of the considerable body of scholarship on the topic. One problem may be that some of the frameworks that drive ...
The Effect of the Kangaroo Mother Care Program (KMC) on Wages: A structural Model
(CAF, 2016-04-14)
In this paper we analyze the relationship between skills and some outcomes later in life for a population of premature children. Pretreatment skills and characteristics are good predictors of childhood and adulthood skills ...
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 ...
El desafío del desarrollo de habilidades en América Latina. Un diagnóstico de los problemas y soluciones de política pública
(Diálogo Interamericano, Mathematica Policy Research, CAF, 2016-10-31)
La historia de América Latina se ha caracterizado por sus fluctuantes tasas de crecimiento económico, el desarrollo insuficiente del capital humano y altos niveles de desigualdad de ingresos. El final del ciclo
de una ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...