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Does Technology in Schools Affect Repetition, Dropout and Enrollment? Evidence from Peru

Cristia, Julian - 2014

access in schools on repetition, dropout and initial enrollment. Large sample sizes allow ruling out even modest effects …

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Learning About Oneself : The Effects of Performance Feedback on School Choice

Bobba, Matteo - 2017

This paper designs and implements a field experiment that provides students from less advantaged backgrounds with individualized feedback on academic performance during the transition from middle to high school. The intervention reduces the gap between expected and actual performance, as well as...

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Is the Glass Half Empty or Half Full? School Enrollment, Graduation, and Dropout Rates in Latin America

Busso, Matias - 2013

graduation rates over the period 1990–2010. It is found that enrollment and graduation rates increased dramatically during that … period, while dropout rates decreased. Two explanations for these patterns are provided. First, countries implemented changes … education increased over the 1990s. Despite this progress, graduation rates are low, and there persist remarkable gaps in …

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Latin American Middle-Class Entrepreneurs and Their Firms : A Regional View and International Comparison

Kantis, Hugo - 2012

Based on a cross-country comparison of dynamic new firms, this paper attempts to characterize Latin American middle-class entrepreneurs and their firms. In general, Latin American middle-class entrepreneurs tend to face more difficult conditions in terms of resources and skills acquisition than...

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Productivity and Resource Misallocation in Latin America

Busso, Matias - 2012

Total factor productivity (TFP) in Latin America has not increased relative to the US since the mid- 1970s, and in many countries it has declined. Moreover, resource misallocation can lower aggregate TFP. This paper presents evidence based on firm-level data from 10 Latin American countries to...

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Partisanship, Ideology, and Representation in Latin America

Saiegh, Sebastián M. - 2015

This paper uses joint scaling methods and similar items from three large-scale surveys to place voters, parties and politicians from different Latin American countries on a common ideological space. Contrary to the conventional wisdom, the findings reveal that the median voter in Latin America...

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On the Credibility of Inflation Targeting Regimes in Latin America

Mariscal, Rodrigo - 2015

Inflation targeting has been adopted in a set of emerging economies, including eight countries in Latin America. The success of this regime may depend critically on the credibility of the target and the expectation that the authorities will take appropriate actions if the target is breached....

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Re-Estimating the Gender Gap in Colombian Academic Performance

Muñoz, Juan Sebastián - 2014

Colombia and the country's excessively high school dropout rates. By using the OLS and trimming for bounds techniques, and … dropout rate overestimates male performance means, creating a selection bias in the regular OLS estimation. In order to …

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Social Mobility in Latin America : Links with Adolescent Schooling

Andersen, Lykke - 2011

This paper proposes a new measure of social mobility. It is based on schooling gap regressions and uses the Fields decomposition to determine the importance of family background in explaining teenagers schooling gaps

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Critical Choices at a Critical Age : Youth Emancipation Paths and School Attainment in Latin America

Filgueira, Fernando - 2011

This paper discusses how young people become adults in Latin America and how that process affects educational attainment. An examination of four countries at three levels of development shows that individuals` educational attainment is closely linked to the decisions that young people make...

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