CURRICULUM
Publications
Peer Reviewed:
- Full-Time Schools and Educational Trajectories: Evidence from High-Stakes Exams (with María Padilla-Romo and Cecilia Peluffo). Economics of Education Review, 2023.
- El efecto de duplicar el salario mínimo en la brecha de salarios y empleo en México (with Pedro Orraca-Romano and René Alvarado). El Trimestre Económico, 2023
- Lo que no se Nombra no Existe: Determinantes de la Desigualdad de Género en el Trabajo no Remunerado del Hogar (with Sarah Hernández and Salvador Chavez) Economía y Política, 2023.
- Inequality in the Household: How parental income matters for the long-term treatment of healthy and unhealthy children (with Pedro Orraca). Journal of Family and Economic Issues, 2022.
- Leave them Kids Alone! The positive effects of abolishing grade repetition: evidence from a nationwide reform. Education Economics, 2022.
- Hidden Violence: How Covid19 school closures reduced the reporting of child maltreatment? (with Maria Padilla-Romo) Latin American Economic Review, 2021.
- Does Lengthening the School Day Increase School-Value Added? Evidence from a mid-income country. Journal of Development Studies, 2020.
- Management autonomy for educational quality and equity: an evaluation of the Schools Quality Program (with Elena Pérez-Campuzano). Revista Mexicana de Análisis Político y Administración Pública, 2018.
- Easing the constrains of motherhood: the effects of all-day schools on mother’s labour supply (with Maria Padilla-Romo). Economic Inquiry, 2018.
- The Influence of Socioeconomic and Cultural Capital in the Educational Stratification in Chile: 1990 – 2009. Estudios Sociológicos, 2016 (view here).
- Occupational segregation and the gender wage gap in Mexico, 1990-2010. Econoquantum, 2016 (view here)
- The impact effects of the School Breakfast Programme in Mexico. Reformas y Políticas Educativas, 2016 (view here)
Working Papers:
- Impacts of English Instruction on Labour Market Outcomes: The Case of Mexico, 2022 (with Alejandrina Saucedo and Oscar Galvez-Soriano)
- Women as caregivers: Full-Time Schools and Grandmothers’ Labour Supply. Hasslam College of Business, 2021 (with Maria Padilla-Romo)
- Back to Work or Back to the Maternity Ward? The Effects of Full-Time Schools on Fertility (with Fernanda Marquez-Padilla)
- Schools unlike Prisions: The effects of Extending the School Day on Crime Reduction (with Bárbara Zárate-Tenorio)
Book Chapters:
- Cárdenas, S. Arriaga, R y Cabrera, F. (2018) “Developing Twenty-First-Century Competencies in Mexico” in Reimers, F. and Chung, K. (eds.), Preparing Teachers to Educate Whole Students: An International Comparative Study (pp. 157-190). Boston, MA: Harvard Education Press.
- Cabrera F. (2018) Efectos del Programa Escuelas de Tiempo Completo en la reducción de brechas educativas: un avance hacia la equidad. En Martínez A. y Navarro A (coord.) La reforma Educativa a Revisión: apuntes y reflexiones para la agenda educativa 2018-2024 (pp. 171-198). Ciudad de México: Instituto Belisario Domínguez, Senado de la República.
Technical Reports:
- Cabrera, F. et. al. (2021) National Ecosystem in Education: Mexico Chapter. SUMMA, Santiago de Chile, November, 2021 (view here, in Spanish)
- Anderson, K., et. al. (2018) Breadth of Learning Opportunities. Center for Universal Education at Brookings, Washington, June 2018. (view here)
- Cabrera, F., et. al. (2018) ¿Qué impacto ha tenido la política de autonomía de la gestión escolar sobre la calidad de los servicios educativos? World Bank, Mexico City, November 2018. (view here, in Spanish)