Marta Reynal-Querol from the Universitat Pompeu Fabra presented her paper Early Human Capital and Development: the Case of Latin America at the 8th NCID Research Workshop. This paper approaches how first colonizers contributed to high human capital.
...Justin Sandefur presented his paper Outsourcing Service Delivery in a Fragile State: Experimental Evidence from Liberia at the 8th NCID Research Workshop. Two salient features important at this project were the low enrollment and the backlog of overage children. The experiment was to outsource education to private management of public schools. 93 schools were randomly selected and managed by 8 private contractors with staffed teachers on government payroll. Did the schools improve their efficiency? Yes, there were learning gains from this outsourcing progra...
From how a bicycle can help empower girls in Zambia improving their safety and class attendance to how information and media can stop the spread of an epidemic such as Ebola or the curse of natural resources. Pioneering research was presented on the political economy of development at the 8th NCID Research Workshop, which was held on April 4 and 5 at the headquarters of the Fundación Ramón Areces in Madrid.
Projects were presented from all around the world. The first to present was Justin Sandefur, a researcher at the Center ...