Publicaciones de The Education Effect on Population Health: A Reassessment
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The influence of maternal employment on children’s learning growth and the role of parental involvement
Using data from the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study, this study employed a latent growth curve model to examine how parental involvement explains the association between maternal employment status and children’s math and reading achievement growth from kindergarten through the third grade.
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Oil industry investment policies
This Brief presents a concise overview of the context of the Latin American (LA) oil industry and its performance.
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Gas sector investment policy: the Latin American experience
This brief presents a concise overview of the Latin American (LA) gas industry, focusing on its policy experience and performance.
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Designing an Effective CCT
This brief analyses the most important CCT design elements from the Latin American experience: the target population, incentives and conditionalities, and entry and exit rules to help other countries as they make design decisions to adapt CCTs to their own contexts.
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Long-Term Implications of Under-Nutrition on Psychosocial Competencies: Evidence from Four Developing Countries
Bajo la motivación de sugerencias de la literatura médica y del modelo de formación de habilidades propuesto por Cunha y Heckman (2007, 2008), este paper emplea información longitudinal de niños en etapa de crecimiento de países en desarrollo para estudiar el impacto de la nutrición temprana en el desarrollo de estas habilidades.
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CCT Programmes: An Overview of the Latin American Experience
This guide provides an overview to CCT programmes in Latin America, including their history, objectives and use, evidence of their impact, and finally, the main lessons coming out of Latin America that can be useful for policymakers considering implementing CCTs in their own countries.
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Mejora efectiva de la educación básica en las zonas rurales del Perú
Se analizan distintos modelos exitosos de intervención sobre escuelas rurales: AprenDes, PROMEB, Construyendo Escuelas Exitosas, Fe y Alegría.
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Teachers’ Salaries in Latin America: How Much Are They (Under or Over) Paid?
The paper documents the extent to which teachers are underpaid vis-à-vis workers in other professional and technical occupations in Latin America circa 2007. These labor earnings differences, attributed to observable socio-demographic and job characteristics, are assessed using a matching methodology (Ñopo, 2008). Teachers’ underpayment is found to be stronger than what has been previously reported […]
