Until recently, public funding for preschool education had been growing rapidly over a decade with most state programs providing one year of preschool for four year olds. Fewer three year olds are enrolled in preschool. To investigate the importance of enrollment duration, this study is the...

Developing countries spend hundreds of billions of dollars each year on schools, educational materials and teachers, but relatively little is known about how effective these expenditures are at increasing students’ years of completed schooling and, more importantly, the skills that they learn...

Randomized controlled trials, prized for generating unbiased estimates of treatment effects, have become popular in development economics. However, RCTs do not always offer sufficient statistical power, which is reduced in experiments with imperfect compliance to treatment assignment. This is of...

Mediante a análise de informações recolhidas em primeira mão por meio de duas grandes pesquisas -uma sobre trajetórias e habilidades, realizada no Chile e Argentina em 2008 e 2010, respectivamente, e outra sobre demanda de habilidades, entre empresários da Argentina, Brasil e Chile, levada...

Mediante el análisis de información de primera mano recolectada a través de dos grandes encuestas una sobre trayectorias y habilidades conducida en Chile y Argentina en 2008 y 2010 respectivamente, y otra sobre demanda de habilidades realizada entre empresarios de Argentina, Brasil y Chile en...

People and their jobs: What could be more basic to a person's well being? Where people work determines how they live, how their families live, and how economies perform. The quantity and quality of jobs available has implications for individuals and countries alike. That is why the problems with...

"La era de la productividad" describe de qué manera la baja productividad de América Latina y el Caribe impide que la región se ponga a la par de los países del mundo desarrollado. Los autores indagan más allá de las explicaciones macroeconómicas tradicionales y profundizan hasta llegar...

This document is aimed at discussing the concept of employability, characterizing the level, structure and trends of employment and unemployment in the Southern Cone, and suggesting policy directions to increase decent employment in the region. The paper is focused on the case of Argentina, with...

This presentation aims to understand what is behind aggregate productivity and how it grows, expanding the scope beyond that of traditional studies -which tend to emphasize technological growth and manufacturing- to include total factor productivity (TFP) to reflect market inefficiencies. The...

Este resumen ejecutivo es la última versión disponible de "Características demográficas y pobreza en la Argentina" que formó parte del Diálogo Regional de Política Red para la Reducción de la Pobreza y la Protección Social. El objetivo central del trabajo es analizar la dimensión...