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  • Early Education, Preferences, and Decision-Making Abilities (Inglés)

    One way to advance understanding of individual differences in decision making is to study the development of children’s decision making. This paper studies the causal effects of daycare attendance on children’s...

    Tipo de documento: Documento de trabajo sobre investigaciones relativas a políticas Número del informe: WPS10187 Fecha del documento: 19 de septiembre de 2022 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Azevedo E Castro De Cardim,Joana,Amaro Da Costa Luz Carneiro,Pedro Manuel,Carvalho,Leandro S.,De Walque,Damien B. C. M.

  • Can a (Virtual) Parenting Program in Serbia Support Early Childhood Education and Care? (Inglés)

    Early childhood education and stimulation are critical for lifelong learning and wellbeing. In 2020, 64 percent of Serbian children reported attending pre-primary education, but only 11 percent of the...

    Tipo de documento: Informe Número del informe: 171017 Fecha del documento: 30 de marzo de 2022 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Arnold Urzua,Tamara Alejandra,Amaro Da Costa Luz Carneiro,Pedro Manuel,Herrera Sosa,Katia Marina,Lebedinski,Lara,Munoz Boudet,Ana Maria,Perng,Julie Ting Ting

  • When Promising Interventions Fail : Personalized Coaching for Teachers in a Middle-Income Country (Inglés)

    Children in developing countries have deep deficits in math and language. Personalized coaching for teachers has been proposed as a way of raising teacher quality and child achievement. The authors designed...

    Tipo de documento: Documento de trabajo sobre investigaciones relativas a políticas Número del informe: WPS9926 Fecha del documento: 7 de febrero de 2022 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Amaro Da Costa Luz Carneiro,Pedro Manuel,Cruz-Aguayo,Yyannu,Intriago,Ruthy,Ponce,Juan,Schady,Norbert Rudiger,Schodt,Sarah

  • Can Grit Be Taught ? Lessons from a Nationwide Field Experiment with Middle-School Students (Inglés)

    This paper studies whether a particular socio-emotional skill —grit (the ability to sustain effort and interest toward long-term goals)—can be cultivated and how this affects student learning. The paper...

    Tipo de documento: Documento de trabajo sobre investigaciones relativas a políticas Número del informe: WPS9831 Fecha del documento: 2 de noviembre de 2021 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Santos,Indhira Vanessa,Petroska-Beska,Violeta,Amaro Da Costa Luz Carneiro,Pedro Manuel,Eskreis-Winkler,Lauren,Munoz Boudet,Ana Maria,Berniell,Ines,Krekel,Christian,Arias,Omar,Duckworth,Angela Lee

  • Parental Beliefs, Investments, and Child Development : Evidence from a Large-Scale Experiment (Inglés)

    This paper experimentally evaluates a large-scale and low-cost parenting program targeting poor families in Chile. Households in 162 public health centers were randomly assigned to three groups: a control...

    Tipo de documento: Documento de trabajo sobre investigaciones relativas a políticas Número del informe: WPS8743 Fecha del documento: 14 de febrero de 2019 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Amaro Da Costa Luz Carneiro,Pedro Manuel,Galasso,Emanuela,Lopez Garcia,Italo Xavier,Bedregal,Paula,Cordero,Miguel

  • School grants and education quality : experimental evidence from Senegal (Inglés)

    The effect of increasing school resources on educational outcomes is a central issue in the debate on improving school quality. This paper uses a randomized experiment to analyze the impact of a school...

    Tipo de documento: Documento de trabajo sobre investigaciones relativas a políticas Número del informe: WPS7624 Fecha del documento: 6 de abril de 2016 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Amaro Da Costa Luz Carneiro,Pedro Manuel,Koussihouede,Oswald,Lahire,Nathalie,Meghir,Costas,Mommaerts,Corina

  • Do public health interventions crowd out private health investments ? Malaria control policies in Eritrea (Inglés)

    It is often argued that engaging in indoor residual spraying in areas with high coverage of mosquito bed nets may discourage net ownership and use. This is just a case of a public program having perverse...

    Tipo de documento: Documento de trabajo sobre investigaciones relativas a políticas Número del informe: WPS7268 Fecha del documento: 15 de mayo de 2015 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Amaro Da Costa Luz Carneiro,Pedro Manuel,Armand,Alex,Locatelli,Andrea,Mihreteab,Selam,Keating,Joseph Aaron

  • Tackling social exclusion : evidence from Chile (Inglés)

    This paper studies an innovative welfare program in Chile that combines a period of frequent home visits to households in extreme poverty, with guaranteed access to social services. Program impacts are...

    Tipo de documento: Documento de trabajo sobre investigaciones relativas a políticas Número del informe: WPS7180 Fecha del documento: 1 de enero de 2015 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Amaro Da Costa Luz Carneiro,Pedro Manuel,Galasso,Emanuela,Ginja,Rita

  • Enforcement of labor regulation and informality (Inglés)

    Enforcement of labor regulations in the formal sector may drive workers to informality because they increase the costs of formal labor. But better compliance with mandated benefits makes it attractive...

    Tipo de documento: Artículo de periódico Número del informe: 92922 Fecha del documento: 1 de julio de 2012 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Almeida,Rita Kullberg,Amaro Da Costa Luz Carneiro,Pedro Manuel

  • Average and marginal returns to upper secondary schooling in Indonesia (Inglés)

    This paper estimates average and marginal returns to schooling in Indonesia using a non-parametric selection model estimated by local instrumental variables, and data from the Indonesia Family Life Survey...

    Tipo de documento: Documento de trabajo sobre investigaciones relativas a políticas Número del informe: WPS5878 Fecha del documento: 1 de noviembre de 2011 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Amaro Da Costa Luz Carneiro,Pedro Manuel,Lokshin,Michael M.,Ridao-Cano,Cristobal,Umapathi,Nithin

  • Can targeted assistance help the very poor? (Inglés)

    Policymakers often struggle to promote improvements in the well-being of the poorest individuals and families. The challenges are many. People living in extreme poverty frequently have multiple needs that...

    Tipo de documento: Resumen Número del informe: 65348 Fecha del documento: 1 de enero de 2011 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Marcus, Aliza [editor],Amaro Da Costa Luz Carneiro,Pedro Manuel,Galasso,Emanuela,Ginja,Rita

  • Mandated benefits, employment, and inequality in a dual economy (Inglés)

    This paper studies the effect of enforcing labor regulation in an economy with a dual labor market. The analysis uses data from Brazil, a country with a large informal sector and strict labor law, where...

    Tipo de documento: Documento de trabajo sobre investigaciones relativas a políticas Número del informe: WPS5119 Fecha del documento: 1 de noviembre de 2009 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Almeida,Rita Kullberg,Amaro Da Costa Luz Carneiro,Pedro Manuel

  • Mandated benefits, employment, and inequality in a dual economy (Inglés)

    The authors study the effect of enforcement of labor regulation in Brazil, an economy with a large informal sector and strict labor law. Enforcement affects mainly the degree of compliance with mandated...

    Tipo de documento: Documento de trabajo (Serie Numerada) Número del informe: 45051 Fecha del documento: 1 de agosto de 2008 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Almeida,Rita Kullberg,Amaro Da Costa Luz Carneiro,Pedro Manuel

  • The return to firm investments in human capital (Inglés)

    In this paper the authors estimate the rate of return to firm investments in human capital in the form of formal job training. The authors use a panel of large firms with detailed information on the duration...

    Tipo de documento: Documento de trabajo (Serie Numerada) Número del informe: 44947 Fecha del documento: 1 de junio de 2008 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Almeida,Rita Kullberg,Amaro Da Costa Luz Carneiro,Pedro Manuel