There are countless estimates of the average returns to education which looks at the effect of an additional year of schooling on the conditional mean distribution of salaries. Recent international works suggest that there are variations from the average return to education across the...

Interactions between observed and unobserved determinants of educational success imply that the former have a heterogeneous effect on performance. To quantify these interactions, a quantile regression model is estimated using a database of students at public universities in Argentina. The...

This study examines the issue of student departure from a public university. Non-parametric proportional hazard models are used to estimate the quantity and quality effects of the students’ personal and socioeconomic characteristics on the probability of their dropping out or graduating. Data...

Argentina's Plan Nacer provides insurance for maternal and child health care to uninsured families. The program allocates funding to provinces based on enrollment of beneficiaries and adds performance incentives based on indicators of the use and quality of maternal and child health care...

This report describes the socio-economic situation in Chile based on a large set of distributional, labor and social statistics computed from microdata of the Encuesta de Caracterización Socioeconómica Nacional (CASEN) from 1990 to 2000. The report also draws from other data sources and the...

This study examines the issue of student departure from a public university. Non-parametric proportional hazard models are used to estimate the quantitative and qualitative effects of the students’ personal and socioeconomic characteristics on the probability of their dropping out or...

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...

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...