Working paper
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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
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Industrias extractivas y manejo de conflictos
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Efectos del Programa de Transferencias Condicionadas JUNTOS en el Peso al Nacer de los Niños
This paper assesses the effect of the Conditional Cash Transfer Program, JUNTOS, on neonatal health of children who were exposed to the Program while in utero. The paper also explores whether JUNTOS has improved the prenatal health care of pregnant women. Different estimation techniques are implemented, including difference-in-differences, maternal fixed effects, and instrumental variables approaches. […]
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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 […]
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Measuring the Relative Pay of Latin American School Teachers at the turn of the 20th Century
How much are teachers paid in comparison to those in other professions in Latin America? How have these differences evolved at the turn of the 20th century? This paper documents the extent to which teachers are underpaid vis-à-vis workers in other professional and technical occupations in thirteen Latin-American countries circa 2007. It also analyses the […]
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Industrias extractivas y uso del suelo
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