The paper provides a review of laws and other actions that have been undertaken in recent years in Argentina to improve education. Review is focused on the Province of Tucumán, where he studied education policy and some of their results. It analyzes the contents of the Federal Education Law No....

Italian Abstract: Lo studio misura il livello di educazione finanziaria di un campione di 1.087 studenti universitari italiani, analizzando alcune determinanti del fenomeno. Oggetto d'indagine sono studenti frequentanti il primo e il terzo anno di diversi corsi di laurea. Il grado di educazione...

Spanish Abstract: Este trabajo parte de los resultados de la Encuesta de Competencias Financieras (ECF), en un intento de contribuir a la mejora de los diseños de políticas de educación financiera, y persigue varios objetivos: (i) cuantificar los conocimientos financieros de los individuos,...

The acquits of inter-governmental agreements, being signed by forty-six States in the Bologna Process context, as a starting point promoted by the European Union States, regions and universities to promote an area for academic integration (European Higher Education Area), is applied to three...

Spanish Abstract: En este trabajo se evalúan los impactos de corto plazo de un programa de refuerzo extracurricular de matemáticas y aprendizaje basado en proyectos, denominado “Con Las Manos”, sobre la habilidad cognitiva, la regulación emocional y la función ejecutiva de estudiantes de...

This paper presents the results of an impact evaluation, with an experimental design, which estimates the effect on learning math of a remote tutoring program offered to girls and boys aged 9-14 years in three departments of El Salvador. The program used low-tech interventions such as text...

This paper presents the results of an impact evaluation, with an experimental design, which estimates the effect on learning math of a remote tutoring program offered to girls and boys aged 9-14 years in three departments of El Salvador. The program used low-tech interventions such as text...

This research estimates the impact of Plan Ceibal in students’ achievement at public primary school in Uruguay. Plan Ceibal is the first national model of One Laptop per Child (OLPC) which is being carried out in Uruguay since 2007 in some provinces, but reached national scale during 2009. The...

PISA 2006 results showed huge differences in educational attainment across Spanish regions. The aim of this paper is to analyze the factors explaining these differences. Our results indicate that differences in family characteristics of students from different regions are crucial in explaining...

Existe una estrecha relación entre la calidad de los maestros y la calidad de la educación que reciben los estudiantes. En Colombia, poco se sabe acerca de las competencias académicas de los maestros. Este documento investiga sobre el estándar académico de las personas que se gradúan de...