Feb 2023
We measure the extent of discrimination against same-sex couples by schools in Colombia using a matched-pair correspondence study. We send requests to visit private schools from several couples of…
Feb 2023
This paper studies whether school-based financial education has spillover effects from children to parents. Leveraging data from a large-scale experiment with public high schools in Peru and credit…
Feb 2023
"Ciudad para la niñez y la adolescencia" es una guía que busca facilitar a los gobiernos locales de América Latina y el Caribe la implementación de procesos participativos con foco en niñez…
Jan 2023
We study the effects of a Bolivian law that introduced benefits and protections for child workers (who are overwhelmingly informal workers) and lowered the de facto legal working age from 14 to 10.…
Jan 2023
Measuring 21st century skills is one of the most important tasks of education and training systems. Measurement is what allows program managers to evaluate the effectiveness of a particular education…
Dec 2022
Parenting programs can improve experiences during the early years and generate long-term outcomes in variables such as employment, health, education, and salary. The need to scale up parenting…
Dec 2022
Los programas de crianza pueden mejorar las experiencias durante los primeros años, generando resultados de largo plazo en variables como el empleo, la salud, la educación y el salario. La necesidad…
Dec 2022
Este documento presenta los resultados de una evaluación de impacto, con diseño experimental, que estima el efecto sobre aprendizajes de matemáticas de un programa de tutorías remotas…
Dec 2022
In this toolkit, you will learn about an intervention designed to increase HPV vaccination rates in Bogota by following the steps of the IDB Behavioral Economics Group methodology: define, diagnose,…
Dec 2022
En este documento, tendrá la oportunidad de aprender sobre una intervención diseñada para aumentar las tasas de vacunación contra el virus del papiloma humano (VPH) en Bogotá, siguiendo los pasos de…
Dec 2022
A one-year teacher professional development program was effective at improving students literacy skills by the end of first grade (0.39 of a standard deviation in overall literacy proficiency).…
Dec 2022
Un programa de desarrollo profesional docente de un año de duración resultó eficaz para mejorar las habilidades de lectoescritura de los estudiantes al final del primer grado (0,39 de una desviación…
Nov 2022
This paper documents the existence of significant gender gaps in STEM occupations in Costa Rica, El Salvador, and Mexico and estimates the aggregate costs associated with these gaps in Mexico. For…
Nov 2022
This is a publication about citizen-led urbanism processes in Latin America. It follows the recent life of a movement originating from, and driven by and for citizens, who out of a compelling love…
Nov 2022
Esta es una publicación sobre los procesos del urbanismo ciudadano en América Latina. Un recorrido por la vida reciente de un movimiento impulsado desde, para y por la ciudadanía que, con amor…
Oct 2022
Covering the full population of applicants to the Jamaican Conditional Cash Transfer Program (PATH), we explore whether receiving PATH benefits alters the academic returns to subsequently attending a…
Oct 2022
Teachers are the most fundamental input of students' learning. For this reason, developing teaching skills is a policy priority for most governments around the world. We experimentally evaluate…
Oct 2022
In Mexico, a grandmothers death, through its impact on childcare availability, reduces mothers employment rate by 12 percentage points but does not affect fathers employment rate. This equals half of…
Oct 2022
En México, la muerte de una abuela, a través de su impacto en la disponibilidad de cuidados infantiles, reduce la tasa de empleo de las madres en 12 puntos porcentuales, pero no influye en la tasa de…
Oct 2022
Family violence is a critical development challenge in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), carrying high health, social, and economic costs and increasing the risk of perpetuating the cycle of…