Learning Mathematics in the 21st Century: Adding Technology to the Equation
Aug 2020
Author(s): Arias Ortiz, Elena;Cristia, Julian P.;Cueto, Santiago
The early twenty-first century has witnessed an explosion of technological changes that have revolutionized the way we travel, shop, interact and play. Technology can also transform education by…
Aprender matemática en el siglo XXI: A sumar con tecnología
Aug 2020
Author(s): Arias Ortiz, Elena;Cristia, Julian P.;Cueto, Santiago
El comienzo del siglo XXI ha sido testigo de una explosión de cambios tecnológicos que han revolucionado la forma en que viajamos, compramos, interactuamos y jugamos. La tecnología también puede…
Do Children Benefit from Internet Access?: Experimental Evidence from a Developing Country
Nov 2018
Author(s): Malamud, Ofer;Cueto, Santiago;Cristia, Julian P.;Beuermann, Diether
This paper provides experimental evidence for the impact of home internet access on a broad range of child outcomes in Peru. Children who were randomly chosen to receive laptops with high-speed…
Early Childhood Development: Wealth, the Nurturing Environment and Inequality First Results from the PRIDI Database
Jul 2016
Author(s): Verdisco, Aimee;Cueto, Santiago;Thompson, Jennelle
This paper presents findings from the Regional Project on Child Development Indicators, PRIDI for its acronym in Spanish. PRIDI created a new tool, the Engle Scale, for evaluating development in…
PRIDI: Urgency and Possibility
Dec 2014
Author(s): Verdisco, Aimee;Cueto, Santiago;Thompson, Jennelle;Neuschmidt, Oliver
For many children, the circumstances of their birth and earliest years have lifelong consequences. Where and to whom a child is born can predict her economic and social outcomes later in life.…
PRIDI: Urgencia y posibilidad
Dec 2014
Author(s): Verdisco, Aimee;Cueto, Santiago;Thompson, Jennelle;Neuschmidt, Oliver
Para muchos niños, las circunstancias en las que nacen y sus primeros años tienen consecuencias de por vida. Dónde y de quién nace un niño son aspectos que pueden predecir sus logros sociales y…
Home Computers and Child Outcomes: Short-Term Impacts from a Randomized Experiment in Peru
Dec 2012
Author(s): Beuermann, Diether;Cristia, Julian P.;Cruz-Aguayo, Yyannu;Cueto, Santiago;Malamud, Ofer
This paper presents results from a randomized control trial in which approximately 1,000 OLPC XO laptops were provided for home use to children attending primary schools in Lima, Peru. The…
Technology and Child Development: Evidence from the One Laptop per Child Program
Feb 2012
Author(s): Cristia, Julian P.;Ibarrarán, Pablo;Cueto, Santiago;Santiago, Ana;Severin, Eugenio
Although many countries are aggressively implementing the One Laptop per Child (OLPC) program, there is a lack of empirical evidence on its effects. This paper presents the impact of the first large…
Tecnología y desarrollo infantil: Evidencia del programa Una computadora por niño
Feb 2012
Author(s): Cristia, Julian P.;Ibarrarán, Pablo;Cueto, Santiago;Santiago, Ana;Severin, Eugenio
Aunque muchos países están implementando de manera intensa el Programa Una computadora por niño (OLPC, por sus siglas en inglés), existe una falta de evidencia empírica sobre sus efectos. Este…
Programa Regional de Indicadores de Desarrollo Infantil (PRIDI): Marco Conceptual
Jun 2011
Author(s): Engle, Patrice;Cueto, Santiago;Ortíz, María Estela;Verdisco, Aimee
El presente documento entrega el marco conceptual y la fundamentación del Proyecto Regional de Indicadores de Desarrollo Infantil (PRIDI), una iniciativa del Banco Interamericano de Desarrollo (BID…
Additional Analysis of Nutritional Indicators and Children's Development
May 2007
Author(s): Cueto, Santiago
This presentation deals with the relationship between malnutrition and behavior patterns. As examples on how nutrition affects human social development it presents a series of crossed indicators such…
Información Empírica y Desarrollo de Políticas Educativas en América Latina
Nov 2005
Author(s): Cueto, Santiago
Esta presentación fue comisionada por la Red de Educación del Diálogo Regional de Política para la VIII Reunión Hemisférica celebrada los días 7 y 8 de noviembre de 2005.
Empirical Information and the Development of Educational Policies in Latin America
Oct 2005
Author(s): Cueto, Santiago
This paper discusses the links between empirical information and the development of educational policies in Latin America. The data presented in this paper comes from responses to a questionnaire…