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Intercontinental evidence on socioeconomic status and early childhood cognitive skills : is Latin America different?

López Bóo, Florencia - 2013

This paper documents disparities in cognitive development-as measured by a receptive vocabulary test-between children from households with high and low socioeconomic status (SES) in two different phases of childhood (before and after early school years) in four developing countries: Peru,...

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Good peers have asymmetric gendered effects on female educational outcomes : experimental evidence from Mexico

Busso, Matias; Frisancho Robles, Verónica - 2021

This study examines the gendered effects of early and sustained exposure to high-performing peers on female educational trajectories. Exploiting random allocation to classrooms within middle schools, we measure the effect of male and female high performers on girls' high school placement...

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In-firm training, innovation and productivity : the case of Caribbean small island developing states

Mohan, Preeya; Strobl, Eric; Watson, Patrick K. - 2017

In-firm training is a crucial innovative activity in modern knowledge-based economies which face increasing global …. This study uses the World Bank Enterprise Survey (WBES) 2010 and Compete Caribbean's Productivity Technology Innovation … play a relatively small role and may not even matter for innovation and productivity. …

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School reorganization reforms : the case of school networks in Colombia

Elacqua, Gregory; Sánchez Torres, Fabio; Santos, Humberto - 2019

To contribute to the debate about the reorganization of the public-school supply, in this paper we analyze a reform introduced in Colombia in 2001 that merged several independent small schools into a single educational institution, with the same name, administration, educational project and...

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Teachers' preferences for proximity and the implications for staffing schools : evidence from Peru

Bertoni, Eleonora; Elacqua, Gregory; Hincapié, Diana; … - 2019

This paper explores rank-ordered teacher candidates' preferences for public schools in Peru by analyzing the 2015 teacher hiring process. Our analysis shows that, in seeking permanent positions in public schools, candidates appear to search closer to where they attended their Teacher Education...

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Self-perceptions about academic achievement : evidence from Mexico City

Bobba, Matteo; Frisancho Robles, Verónica - 2020

A growing body of evidence suggests that people exhibit large biases when processing information about themselves, but less is known about the underlying inference process. This paper studies belief updating patterns regarding academic ability in a large sample of students transitioning from...

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Teacher quality and learning outcomes in kindergarten

Araujo, María Caridad; Carneiro, Pedro; Cruz Aguayo, … - 2016

We assigned two cohorts of kindergarten students, totaling more than 24,000 children, to teachers within schools with a rule that is as-good-as-random. We collected data on children at the beginning of the school year, and applied 12 tests of math, language and executive function (EF) at the end...

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Teacher hiring instruments and teacher value added : evidence from Peru

Bertoni, Eleonora; Elacqua, Gregory; Méndez, Carolina; … - 2020

curricular and pedagogical knowledge component has the strongest (and significant) correlation with the TVA measure, while the …

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The effects of ethnomathematics education on student outcomes : the JADENKÄ program in the Ngäbe-Buglé Comarca, Panama

Näslund-Hadley, Emma; Hernández-Agramonte, Juan Manuel; … - 2022

. Finally, the program bolstered teachers' ethnomathematical skills and also their knowledge of the Ngäbere language and culture …

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Remote parent coaching in preschool mathematics : evidence from Peru

Näslund-Hadley, Emma; Hernández-Agramonte, Juan Manuel; … - 2022

We evaluate the effects of a 10-week intervention that randomly provided access to remote coaching to parents of preschool children over the summer break in Peru. In response to learning losses during school closures induced by COVID-19, education coaches offered guidance and encouragement to...

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