Mar 2023
Nearly 120 million people reside in urban slums in Latin America and the Caribbean, where precarious housing and socioeconomic circumstances testify to deep inequality. This paper investigates…
Mar 2023
Latin America and the Caribbean are facing numerous challenges, such as low-quality education, poor well-being, and non-peaceful and exclusive societies. The causes are complex, yet connected to…
Feb 2023
We study how signaling skills that are specific to college majors affect labor market outcomes of college graduates. We rely on census-like data and a regression discontinuity design to study the…
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
This paper analyzes preferences for certain school attributes among in-service teachers. We explore a centralized matching process in the city of Sao Paulo that teachers must use when transferring…
Jan 2023
This article relies on a large-scale field experiment in Mexico to measure the effects of two ability-grouping models (tracking and heterogeneous/bimodal groups) on student learning outcomes during…
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
En años recientes, Chile ha incrementado sustantivamente su inversión en educación, producto de un crecimiento significativo tanto del gasto público como privado. Así, por ejemplo, mientras en 2004…
Dec 2022
This document analyzes the functioning of the Education Management and Information System (EMIS) of Jamaica, its strengths and challenges related to the key management processes and structural…
Dec 2022
Este artículo describe la experiencia de gestión educativa en el municipio de Aracruz, en el estado de Espírito Santo, Brasil. El municipio de Aracruz presenta una mejora sostenida en la educación…
Dec 2022
El acompañamiento pedagógico a las instituciones educativas es una de las funciones clave de las Unidades de Gestión Educativa Local (UGEL) del Perú. En el presente estudio se analiza el Programa…
Dec 2022
El fortalecimiento de capacidades es una de las tantas funciones encomendadas a las Unidades de Gestión Educativa Local (UGEL) del Perú. En el presente estudio se analiza el Sistema Virtual de…
Dec 2022
En Colombia, el nivel nacional Ministerio de Educación tiene un alto grado de atribuciones sobre la selección y el ingreso de docentes y directivos docentes que laboran en las escuelas a lo largo del…
Dec 2022
Regímenes federales como Brasil poseen importantes desafíos institucionales en el que administradores estatales y municipales comparten responsabilidades por la educación en un mismo territorio. En…
Dec 2022
Los sistemas tradicionales (descentralizados) de asignación escolar se caracterizan por su ineficiencia, poca transparencia e inequidad en la distribución. En respuesta, cada vez más lugares han…
Dec 2022
Os sistemas tradicionais (descentralizados) de alocação escolar são caracterizados pela ineficiência, falta de transparência e desigualdade na distribuição. Como resposta, cada vez mais locais…
Dec 2022
Diversity in gender identity and sexual orientation challenges traditional institutions, social norms, and gendered stereotypes. This may translate into greater levels of conflict in society. Using…
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).…