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

    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...

    Document Type: Policy Research Working Paper Report No.: WPS10187 Document Date: September 19, 2022 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: 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? (English)

    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...

    Document Type: Report Report No.: 171017 Document Date: March 30, 2022 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: 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 (English)

    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...

    Document Type: Policy Research Working Paper Report No.: WPS9926 Document Date: February 7, 2022 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: 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 (English)

    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...

    Document Type: Policy Research Working Paper Report No.: WPS9831 Document Date: November 2, 2021 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: 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 (English)

    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...

    Document Type: Policy Research Working Paper Report No.: WPS8743 Document Date: February 14, 2019 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: 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 (English)

    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...

    Document Type: Policy Research Working Paper Report No.: WPS7624 Document Date: April 6, 2016 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Amaro Da Costa Luz Carneiro,Pedro Manuel,Koussihouede,Oswald,Lahire,Nathalie,Meghir,Costas,Mommaerts,Corina

  • Tackling social exclusion : evidence from Chile (English)

    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...

    Document Type: Policy Research Working Paper Report No.: WPS7180 Document Date: January 1, 2015 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Amaro Da Costa Luz Carneiro,Pedro Manuel,Galasso,Emanuela,Ginja,Rita

  • Enforcement of labor regulation and informality (English)

    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...

    Document Type: Journal Article Report No.: 92922 Document Date: July 1, 2012 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Almeida,Rita Kullberg,Amaro Da Costa Luz Carneiro,Pedro Manuel

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

    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...

    Document Type: Policy Research Working Paper Report No.: WPS5878 Document Date: November 1, 2011 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Amaro Da Costa Luz Carneiro,Pedro Manuel,Lokshin,Michael M.,Ridao-Cano,Cristobal,Umapathi,Nithin

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

    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...

    Document Type: Brief Report No.: 65348 Document Date: January 1, 2011 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Marcus, Aliza [editor],Amaro Da Costa Luz Carneiro,Pedro Manuel,Galasso,Emanuela,Ginja,Rita

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

    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...

    Document Type: Policy Research Working Paper Report No.: WPS5119 Document Date: November 1, 2009 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Almeida,Rita Kullberg,Amaro Da Costa Luz Carneiro,Pedro Manuel

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

    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...

    Document Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series) Report No.: 45051 Document Date: August 1, 2008 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Almeida,Rita Kullberg,Amaro Da Costa Luz Carneiro,Pedro Manuel

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

    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...

    Document Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series) Report No.: 44947 Document Date: June 1, 2008 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Almeida,Rita Kullberg,Amaro Da Costa Luz Carneiro,Pedro Manuel