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Better Luck Next Time: Learning through Retaking

Krishna, Kala; Lychagin, Sergey; Yavas, Cemile; … - Inter-American Development Bank - 2014

This paper provides some evidence that repeat taking of competitive exams may reduce the impact of background disadvantages on educational outcomes. Using administra- tive data on the university entrance exam in Turkey, the paper estimates cumulative learning between the first and the nth...

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Intergenerational Mobility, Middle Sectors and Entrepreneurship in Uruguay

Gandelman, Nestor; Robano, Virginia - Inter-American Development Bank - 2012

This paper estimates the relationship between parents’ educational attainment and income and children’s schooling in Uruguay between 1982 and 2010. This relationship is interpreted as a measure of intergenerational social mobility, and the paper reports evidence that it has decreased over...

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The Effects of Punishment of Crime in Colombia on Deterrence, Incapacitation, and Human Capital Formation

Guarin, Arlen; Medina, Carlos; Tamayo, Jorge Andres - Inter-American Development Bank - 2013

Using individual data on persons arrested in the Medellin Metropolitan Area, this paper assesses whether the change in punishment at age 18, mandated by law, has a deterrent effect on arrests. No deterrent effect was found on index, violent or property crimes, but a deterrence effect was found...

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Re-estimating the Gender Gap in Colombian Academic Performance

Munoz, Juan Sebastian - Inter-American Development Bank - 2014

This paper presents evidence of the relationship between the disparity in the academic performance of boys and girls in Colombia and the country’s excessively high school dropout rates. By using the OLS and trimming for bounds techniques, and based on data derived from the PISA 2009 database,...

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The Inter-Generational Transmission of Cognitive Abilities in Guatemala

Calderón, Ma. Cecilia; Hoddinott, John - Inter-American Development Bank - 2011

This paper examines early childhood development (ECD) outcomes and their association with family characteristics, investments, and environmental factors, with particular emphasis on the inter-generational transmission of cognitive abilities. The paper examines the causal relationship between...

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Innovation and Productivity - Evidence from Six Latin American Countries

Crespi, Gustavo; Zuniga, Pluvia - Inter-American Development Bank - 2010

This study examines the determinants of technological innovation and its impact on firm labor productivity across six … Latin American countries (Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Panama, and Uruguay) using micro data from innovation … surveys. In line with the literature, in all countries firms that invest in knowledge are more able to introduce new …

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Innovation, R&D Investment and Productivity in Chile

Alvarez, Roberto; Bravo-Ortega, Claudio; Navarro, Lucas - Inter-American Development Bank - 2010

process innovation on productivity in the Chilean manufacturing industry during the past decade. In general, the evidence … suggests there is not a contemporaneous effect of product innovation on productivity, but there is a positive effect of process … innovation. This notsignificant effect of product innovation contrasts with evidence of studies for other countries. However, the …

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The Role of Flagship Firms, External Actors and Support Institutions in the Emergence of Successful Export Activities in Brazil: Two Industrial Cluster Studies

Rocha, Angela da; Kury, Beatriz; Monteiro, Joana - Inter-American Development Bank - 2009

This paper examines the process by which firms in a cluster start to export based on systemic interactions and the process of diffusion of exporting as a business strategy within the cluster. Two Brazilian manufacturing industries are studied, and within each one a geographic cluster was...

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The Political Economy of Productivity. The Case of Chile

Aninat, Cristobal; Benavente, Jose Miguel; Briones, Ignacio - Inter-American Development Bank - 2010

This paper analyzes the political economy of productivity-related policymaking in Chile following a political transaction cost model (Spiller and Tommasi, 2003; Murillo et al., 2008). The main findings indicate that i) the Chilean policymaking process (PMP) was successful in the 1990s in...

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Innovation and Productivity in the Argentine Manufacturing Sector

Arza, Valeria; Lopez, Andres - Inter-American Development Bank - 2010

This paper adapts the Crepon, Duguet, and Mairesse (1998) approach to estimate the relationship between innovation and … process innovation, which in turn explains labor productivity. The endogeneity of this three-stage process is controlled for … innovation, and both are important factors to explain labor productivity. Moreover, investing systematically in R&D implies an …

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