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-based education policies to improve learning outcomes in Argentina …This paper seeks to understand what drove the trends in learning outcomes in Argentina between 2000 and 2012, using … data from four rounds of the Program for International Student Assessment. A year-specific education production function is …
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studies for Argentina, Brazil, and Mexico suggest two main phenomena underlie this trend: a fall in the premium to skilled …
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Montevideo, and those who do not have complete secondary education are more vulnerable to falling into poverty were the crisis to …
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There are several possible explanations for the observed changes in inequality, the returns to education, and the gap … between the wages of informal and formal salaried workers in Argentina over the period 1980-2002. Largely due to the lack of … returns to education that occurred in the 1990s. Using a semi-parametric re-weighting variance decomposition technique and …
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This paper explores the hypothesis that the credibility of economic policy making in Argentina (or lack thereof) has …
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liberalization gains that arise when examining tariffs alone. This paper examines the experiences of Argentina and Brazil during the …
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Argentina: terms of trade, productivity differentials, foreign currency reserves, and trade openness. Based on these …
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The adoption of new clinical practice patterns by medical care providers is often challenging, even when the patterns are believed to be efficacious and profitable. This paper uses a randomized field experiment to examine the effects of temporary financial incentives paid to medical care clinics...
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experiment in the Province of La Rioja Argentina, that randomly assigned 105 public primary schools to: (a) a "diagnostic …
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The objective of this paper is to analyze the employment profile trends in Argentina and Uruguay according to the task …
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