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Integrating Early-life Shocks and Human Capital Investments on Children´s Education
(CAF, 2016-10-04)
This study investigates how early-life conditions interact with subsequent human capital investments to influence future educational outcomes. To provide causal evidence, we exploit two sources of exogenous variation: i) ...
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 ...
Intergenerational mobility in education in Latin America
(CAF, 2021-12-15)
This document provides a comprehensive analysis of intergenerational mobility in Latin America, focusing on the association between parental education and the education of their children. It updates the estimates provided ...
Socioeconomic Gradients in Test Scores across Latin American and the Caribbean
(CAF, 2022-05-05)
In this paper we document gaps in math and reading achievement between children whose mothers have completed at least upper secondary education and those who have not, using test scores from third and sixth graders across ...
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 ...
Nueva normalidad y formación profesional. Aportes desde la experiencia de cuatro instituciones de formación
(CAF, 2022-03-29)
Este estudio busca caracterizar los procesos de vuelta a la presencialidad en una muestra de cuatro Instituciones de Formación Profesional (IFP) de la región: El Servicio Nacional de Aprendizaje Industrial SENAI en Brasil, ...
Does it Matter Where You Grow up? Childhood Exposure Effects in Latin America and the Caribbean
(CAF, 2021-12-15)
I study whether the observed differences in intergenerational educational mobility across regions in Latin America and the Caribbean are due to the sorting of families or the effect of grow ing up in these different places. ...
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 ...
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 ...
Formación de educadores para el desarrollo de las competencias transversales y socioemocionales
(DIALOGAS, Adelante, Agcid Chile, MESACTS y CAF, 2019-04-09)
En el contexto de MESACTS, y en el marco del proyecto DIALOGAS, se han desarrollado durante el 2018 cuatro mesas orientadas a intercambios en los temas de evaluación, articulación intersectorial, planes de acción de programas ...