This paper evaluates the partial impact of a large extension in the length of schooling day using the Chilean experience. Since 1997, Chile has been implementing a national policy that increases by 30% the hours that each student stays at school. Using alternative specifications, I find a robust positive effect for the “Full Day Schooling Program” applied during last years, though they are small. Also, these effects have been highly heterogenous.

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Relative income of teachers is analysed in Argentina for 1998 and 2002. A selectivity-corrected Mincerian income equation is estimated for cross section samples of individuals from the 1998 and 2002 Permanent Household Survey (EPH) and the Neuman-Oaxaca decomposition procedure is followed to ascertain whether characteristics, returns or the Inverse of the Mills Ratio explain better the log mean difference in income of teachers and other relevant groups used for comparison.

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This paper analyzes teachers’ relative wage and structure of returns in 17 Latin-American and Caribbean countries. The data reveals that in most LAC countries, teachers receive higher initial wages that allow them to compensate the smaller returns of education and, in some cases, the smaller returns of potential experience that they receive in the education sector.

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The aim of this paper is to analyze the existing relationships between real volatility and demand for higher education in Latin America. We use micro and macro panel data from Argentina and Brazil in order to identify the aggregate and idiosyncratic risk-channels affecting human capital accumulation. Confirming the mail hypothesis of our OLG stochastic model we find out that both, aggregate real volatility and family real income volatility reduce demand for higher education.

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Even though, the nineties was a decade of improvement in terms of education indicators, the quality of education, dropout and repetition did not follow the same trend. This research tries to capture the systematic characteristics, by gender and urbanity, which induce dropouts using survival and duration models. Finally, a brief simulation of a cash direct transfer program is performed to estimated the expenditure needed in order to replicate international successful experiences.

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