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Efficiency of colombian schools
(2003-09)
"The main goal of this paper is to study the efficiency of Colombian schools with an eye on understanding what drives school productivity and how much is to be gained by increasing efficiency. The paper uses Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) to study efficiency and a Tobit model to study the determinants of efficiency. Introduction. The main goal of this paper is to study the efficiency of Colombian schools with an eye ...
Determinantes de la calidad de la educación en Colombia
(2001-08)
Este trabajo estudia los determinantes de la calidad de la educación secundaria en Colombia con base en las pruebas del ICFES. El trabajo tiene tres capítulos que abordan tres aspectos cruciales del tema, a saber, el efecto de las características familiares sobre el rendimiento, el efecto de las características del plantel sobre la calidad, y el efectos del gasto publico sobre la calidad relativa de los planteles ...
Intergenerational mobility in Latin America
(2001-04)
High inequality has long been regarded as one of the main problems facing Latin American countries. To understand better the determinants of inequality and to help guide thinking about policy options, it would be useful to know whether inequality mainly reflects low intergenerational mobility or whether it is driven by differences. In this paper we use five household surveys with questions about parental socioeconomic ...