We present evidence from the first three years of a randomized controlled trial of a government-administered pilot teacher performance pay program in Punjab, Pakistan. The program offers yearly cash bonuses to teachers in a sample of 600 public primary schools with the lowest mean student exam...

We evaluate a program that recruited local entrepreneurs to open and operate new schools in 200 underserved villages in Sindh, Pakistan. School operators received a per-student subsidy to provide tuition-free primary education, and in half the villages received a higher subsidy for females. The...

This study estimates the causal effects of a public per-student subsidy program targeted at low-cost private schools in Pakistan on student enrollment and schooling inputs. Program entry is ultimately conditional on achieving a minimum stipulated student pass rate (cutoff) in a standardized...

Low student learning is a common finding in much of the developing world. This paper uses a relatively unique dataset of five semiannual rounds of standardized test data to characterize and explain the short-term changes in student learning. The data are collected as part of the quality...

Este trabajo presenta evidencia empírica entorno a la hipótesis de Londoño usando datos recientes de la Encuesta de Calidad de Vida 2003, producida por el DANE. En concreto, se utilizan los datos por hogares en 19 localidades de Bogotá para analizar la relación entre tres formas de capital...

Abstract: This paper adds to previous research on the causes of crime in Colombia by using a new dataset and better econometric estimations. The paper is a "meta" study on the past empirical research on crime. Based on microeconomic foundations, it tests several hypotheses on crime in Colombia....

The main goal of this paper is to study the efficiency of Colombian schools with an eye on understanding what drives school productivity and how much is to be gained by increasing efficiency. The paper uses Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) to study efficiency and a Tobit model to study the...

This paper examines the Colombian tax system as it is represented in the 1997 social accounts. We implement an economic model based on these data and evaluate the welfare e®ects of raising additional government revenue. The paper considers the marginal and inframarginal cost of raising revenue...