Esta obra es una publicación elaborada por el Banco Interamericano de Desarrollo para el diálogo de políticas con las autoridades de la República Dominicana. El objetivo de este trabajo consiste en contribuir a la profundización del análisis de algunos de los temas que integran la agenda...

This paper analyzes the relationship between reproductive empowerment and individual mental well-being by exploiting a unique set of questions from the 2003 Bolivian Demographic and Health Survey (DHS). It analyzes whether women who lack reproductive empowerment, measured here by undesired...

This paper presents information about a theoretical model that provides different interpretations for the correlation between family wealth and tertiary education enrollment; the empirical model; a description of data sources and the main variables used in the analysis.

This study describes how minority enrollment probabilities respond to changes in admission policies from affirmative-action to merit-only programs and then to percentage plans when the demographic composition of the potential pool of applicants is also shifting. It takes advantage of admission...

This study attempts to quantify female teenage sexual activity, pregnancy, and motherhood in Bolivia using the most recent Demographic and Health Survey. Descriptive results suggest that teenage sexual activity, pregnancy, and childbearing are more prevalent among those adolescents who are more...

Chile presenta una de las brechas de aprendizaje más amplias entre estudiantes de altos y bajos ingresos. Enseña Chile, la primera adaptación en América Latina del exitoso modelo Teach for America, tiene por objeto eliminar la desigualdad educativa al reclutar a jóvenes profesionales...

¿De qué manera las escuelas pueden promover habilidades socioemocionales relevantes? El BID, con el apoyo de distinguidas instituciones académicas locales, se asoció con Enseña Chile, organización que recluta a jóvenes profesionales sobresalientes y altamente motivados para que enseñen...

This note summarizes, as told from their personal experiences, the transition process of young people, mostly non-teachers, recruited by Enseña Perú to serve as teachers for a period of two years in vulnerable schools in Peru. The results shed light on the difficulties that are faced in the...

This study describes how minority enrollment probabilities respond to changes in admission policies from affirmative-action to merit-only programs and then to percentage plans when the demographic composition of the potential pool of applicants is also shifting. It takes advantage of admission...

This paper presents information about a theoretical model that provides different interpretations for the correlation between family wealth and tertiary education enrollment; the empirical model; a description of data sources and the main variables used in the analysis.