Results from "Call for Research Proposals on education and health production functions"
Dear colleague,
The following table shows the Research Proposals accepted as background papers for UNDP´s LAC-Regional Report on the Intergenerational Transmission of Inequality in Human Development, to be published in Fall 2009. These Research Proposals were selected from the Second Call for Papers issued last Summer. The selection committee based its decisions on the technical quality of the proposals and on their relevance for policy recommendations.
| Author(s) | Title of the paper | Affiliation |
| Alzúa Maria Laura | The quality of education in Argentina: Education production function and policy change | Centro de Estudios Distributivos, Laborales y Sociales |
| Crespo Ana | Child health and socioeconomic status in brazil: is that the origin of the gradient? | Princeton University |
| Eduardo Amadeo Gabriela Agosto | Human Development and the inter-generational transmission of inequality | Observatorio Social, S.C. |
| Jacques Silber Joseph Deutsch | Estimating Education Production Functions | Bar-Ilan University |
| Macdonald Kevin Felipe Barrera Juliana Guaqueta Harry Patrinos Emilio Porta | Estimating the Determinants of Gender and Socio-Economic Differences in Learning Achievement in Latin America | World Bank |
| Johannes Metzler Ludger Wößmann | The Impacto of Teacher Subject Knowledge on Student Learning | Munich University |
| Otter Thomas | Quality and Inequality Determinants in Primary Education in Paraguay | Consultor Independiente |
| Seinfeld Janice | Identifying successful strategies for fighting child malnutrition in Peru | Universidad del Pacífico |
| Thompson Benita | The Achievement Level of Poor Students In Barbados: An Investigation into the Relationship of Certain Constraints | University of the West Indies |
| Zubizarreta José | Educational Outcomes of the Children of the Poor: the Chilean Case | New York University |
Best regards,
Isidro Soloaga
Project Coordinator
LAC-Regional Human Development Report
Intergenerational transmission of inequality.