Luis Tejerina
Inter-American Development Bank
38 Papers
177 Citations
Luis Tejerina is an academic researcher from Inter-American Development Bank. The author has contributed to research in topics: Latin Americans & Population. The author has an hindex of 12, co-authored 33 publications.
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Papers
La gran oportunidad de la salud digital en América Latina y el Caribe
Alexandre Bagolle,Mario Casco,Jennifer Nelson,Pablo Orefice,Georgina Raygada,Luis Tejerina +5 more
- 01 Mar 2022
TL;DR: In this paper , a pandemia de COVID-19 demostró la centralidad de la salud de la población para las economías y el bienestar social, a la vez que evidenció serios problemas estructurales de larga data in los sistemas sanitarios.
Do We Know What Works? A Systematic Review of Impact Evaluations of Social Programs in Latin America and the Caribbean
César P. Bouillon,Luis Tejerina +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a set of rigorous impact evaluations, placing emphasis on extracting lessons to assess the development effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of these interventions, and show a mostly positive picture of the impact of the programs evaluated.
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Education, Family Background and Racial Earnings Inequality in Brazil
TL;DR: This paper investigated the role of race, family background and education (both the quantity and quality) in explaining earnings inequality between whites and the African descendent population (pretos and pardos) in Brazil.
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Social inclusion and economic development in Latin America
Maria Eugenia Genoni,Margarita Sánchez,Jaime Saavedra-Chanduví,Suzanne Duryea,Richard Parker,Peter Aggleton,Mayra Buvinic,Ernest Massiah,Omar Arias,Hugo Ñopo,Jacqueline Mazza,Gustavo Yamada,Peter Oakley,Tony Atkinson,Luis Tejerina,Mala Htun,Miriam Maluwa,Eva T. Thorne,Hilary Silver,Maximo Torero,Nina Pacari Vega,José Antonio Ocampo,Jonas Zoninsein,Javier Escobal,Gilberto Rincón Gallardo +24 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examine the discrimination and disadvantages endured by the poor, minorities, women, the disabled and people with HIV/AIDS in Latin America and the Caribbean and propose inclusionary policies to improve access by these groups to social services and economic and political resources.
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Education, family background and racial earnings inequality in Brazil
TL;DR: This paper investigated the role of race, family background and education in earnings inequality between whites and the African descendent population in Brazil, using quantile Mincer earnings regressions to go beyond the usual decomposition of average earnings gaps.