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The Effect of Cash Transfers to Schools on Voluntary Contributions

Bando, Rosangela - 2014

School-based management programs aim to improve education outcomes by involving parents in allocation decisions about … external funds transferred to the school. This paper explores the effects of two school-based management programs on parental …

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Motivation, Resources and the Organization of the School System

Albornoz, Facundo; Berlinski, Samuel G.; Cabrales, Antonio - 2016

also provides a novel microfoundation for peer effects, with empirical implications for welfare and different education …

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More schooling and more learning? Effects of a three-year conditional cash transfer program in Nicaragua after 10 years

Barham, Tania; Macours, Karen; Maluccio, John A. - 2013

CCT programs have become the anti-poverty program of choice in many developing countries. Numerous evaluations, often based on rigorous experimental designs, leave little doubt that such programs can increase enrollment and grades attained--in the short term. But evidence is notably lacking on...

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The Impact of Public Expenditures in Education, Health, and Infrastructure on Economic Growth and Income Distribution in Peru

Baca Campodónico, Jorge F.; Peschiera Cassinelli, Jorge R. - 2014

expenditures in education, health, and infrastructure on economic growth, poverty, and income distribution in the past 20 years …

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Do Education and Health Conditions Matter in a Large Cash Transfer? Evidence from a Honduran Experiment

Benedetti, Fiorella; Ibarrarán, Pablo; McEwan, Patrick - 2015

education condition, and young children and mothers were only subject to health conditions in the absence of older children …

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Information Technology and Student Achievement: Evidence from a Randomized Experiment in Ecuador

Carrillo, Paul; Onofa, Mercedes; Ponce, Juan - 2011

This paper studies the effects of information and communication technologies (ICT) in the school environment on educational achievement. To quantify these effects, the impact is evaluated of a project run by the municipality of Guayaquil, Ecuador, which provides computer-aided instruction in...

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Economic Crisis and Fiscal Reforms in Latin America

Hallerberg, Mark; Scartascini, Carlos - 2011

The recent financial crisis has initiated pressures for not only policy reform but also fundamental institutional fiscal reforms. This paper explores the connection between economic crises and fiscal institutional reforms in a region that has experienced plenty of both in recent years, namely...

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The Political Economy of Productivity. The Case of Chile

Aninat, Cristobal; Benavente, Jose Miguel; Briones, Ignacio - 2010

This paper analyzes the political economy of productivity-related policymaking in Chile following a political transaction cost model (Spiller and Tommasi, 2003; Murillo et al., 2008). The main findings indicate that i) the Chilean policymaking process (PMP) was successful in the 1990s in...

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Household education spending in Latin America and the Caribbean: Evidence from income and expenditure surveys

Acerenza, Santiago; Gandelman, Néstor - 2017

This paper characterizes household spending in education using microdata from income and expenditure surveys for 12 … in education while Bolivia, Brazil and Paraguay have the lowest. Tertiary education is the most important form of … spend more in the education of household members. Households with both parents present and those with a female main income …

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Patterns, trends and policy implications of private spending on skills development in Mexico and the United States

Székely, Miguel; Mendoza, Pamela - 2017

This paper explores families' investment in skills development through education in a high-inequality, low-education … quality country such as Mexico, comparing it to a lower-inequality, higher-quality education country such as the United States … years and different methodological approaches. Of particular interest is the analysis of education expenditure patterns …

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