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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) ...
Peer Effects in the Development of Capabilities in Adolescence
(CAF, 2015-09-29)
We estimate peer effects in cognitive, non-cognitive and health-related outcomes in a sample of Uruguayan high-school students. Our identification strategy is based on two features of the data: (i) parents are not able to ...
Government Spending Efficiency in Latin America: A Frontier Approach
(CAF, 2014-09)
Government spending efficiency in providing education and health is evaluated across countries of the world, with a special emphasis on Latin American countries. Using stochastic frontier and data envelopment analysis, it ...
Spillovers of health education at school on parents´ physical activity
(CAF, 2012)
To prevent modern health conditions like obesity, cancer, cardiovascular illness, and diabetes, which have reached epidemic-like proportions in recent decades, many health experts argue that students should receive Health ...