Working paper
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Diseño y métodos del estudio: resultados iniciales del estudio Niños del Milenio. Cuarta ronda de encuestas en el Perú
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Electrification and Educational Outcomes in Rural Peru
The authors study the effects of electrification on educational outcomes in Peru by taking advantage of a program that rapidly increased electricity coverage in rural areas. Using household survey panel data from 2007-2010, we document that: i) girls living in treated districts are more likely to be enrolled in school, and this effect is larger […]
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Las múltiples formas y efectos de la participación del sector privado en la educación
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Productividad y tratados de libre comercio a nivel de empresas en Perú
We study the empirical relationship between free trade agreement and productivity in Peru by using a pseudo experimental model. Two productivity indicators, which are measured at the firm level are considered: labor productivity and total factor productivity. We find that firms involved in international free trade either as exporters and / or importers have systematically […]
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PRIDI. Regional Project on Child Development Indicators. Urgency and Possibility. First Initiative of Comparative Data on Child Development in Latin America.
The Regional Project on Child Development Indicators, or PRIDI, for its acronym in Spanish, was formally launched in December of 2009 by the Inter-American Development Bank. The first initiative of its kind worldwide, PRIDI seeks to generate high quality and regionally comparable data on child development outcomes. This report summarizes the implementation of the project […]
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Sistematización de experiencias internacionales en políticas de repetición de grado
El presente documento presenta la sistematización de las políticas de repetición en Reino Unido, Canadá, Australia, Suecia, Chile, Colombia, Argentina, y Brasil. Dicha sistematización busca responder a las siguientes preguntas: a) ¿Cuáles son las estrategias o políticas que típicamente se implementan en relación a la repetición escolar? b) ¿Cuáles son las razones que justifican las […]
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Análisis de Género e Interculturalidad en las Rutas del Aprendizaje del Ministerio de Educación
El presente estudio da cuenta de un análisis de género e interculturalidad realizado en las Rutas del Aprendizaje elaboradas por el Ministerio de Educación en el año 2013, las cuales buscan proporcionar orientaciones a docentes, a modo de apoyo a su trabajo pedagógico en el aula. Específicamente, el documento presenta los resultados del estudio de […]
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Guía sobre microfinanzas en América Latina
Globally, developing countries face the problem of providing resources to the poor. Social assistance programmes are one option to solve this problem, but they can generate dependency among the beneficiaries. Microfinance was born in Europe in the 19th century as a cooperative movement involving urban wage labourers and small-scale farmers. Microfinance was adopted in Latin […]
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Industrias extractivas y manejo de conflictos
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Broken Gears: The Value Added of Higher Education on Teachers’ Academic Achievement
A growing literature establishes that good teachers are essential for high quality educational systems. However, little is known about teachers’ skills formation during their college years. In this paper we use a novel panel data set combining two standardized tests for Colombian students: one that is taken at the end of senior year in high […]
