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    • Skills and Selection into Teaching: Evidence from Latin America 

      Lombardi, María; Estrada, Ricardo (Economía LACEA Journal (e-ISSN: 1533-6239), 2023-11-22)
      This paper documents a novel stylized fact: many teachers in Latin America have low levels of cognitive skills. This fact is the result of both low levels of skills among the population and—in the case of numeracy—a gap ...

    • Soveregin Debt Management 

      Levy Yeyati,Eduardo (RedNIE Red Nacional de Investigadores en Economía, 2023)
      This paper reviews debt management strategies in Latin America from a positive and a normative perspective. It discusses the definition of the debt perimeter (what items should be considered to optimize the cost-risk ...

    • Text reading in English as a second language: Evidence from the Multilingual Eye-Movements Corpus 

      Gattei, Carolina A.; Taboh, Analí R.; et al. (Studies in Second Language AcquisitionCambridge University Press, 2023)
      Research into second language (L2) reading is an exponentially growing field. Yet, it still has a relatively short supply of comparable, ecologically valid data from readers representing a variety of first languages (L1). ...

    • The effect of high dismissal protection on bureaucratic turnover and productivity 

      Lombardi, María; Estrada, Ricardo (Universidad Torcuato Di TellaCorporación Andina de Fomento (CAF), 2022-06)
      We study the impact of high dismissal protection on bureaucratic turnover and productivity in the context of public school teachers in Chile. We take advantage of a law that required education administrators to grant a ...

    • What do we mean by metacognition inside the classroom? 

      Goldstein, Julieta; Calero, Cecilia I. (Journal of Neuroeducation, 2022)
      The purpose of this review article is to deepen, based on the research of the existing empirical evidence, the state of the art of metacognitive ability in the context of education. Metacognitive ability has been ...

    • When did Argentina lose its mojo? A short note on economic divergence 

      Levy Yeyati, Eduardo; Katz, Sebastián (Universidad Torcuato Di Tella. Escuela de Gobierno, 2024-04)
      Based on long series of per capita GDPs, we characterize the economic divergence of Argentina in the 20th century relative to a group of countries with comparable initial income per capita. We find the divergence to be ...