Mindfulness, the practice of paying attention to the present moment without judgment, is crucial for enhancing well-being and emotional regulation. It is linked to improved cognitive, emotional, and behavioral awareness. Mindfulness can be developed from childhood through adulthood via meditation, yoga, and educational programs. In this brief, we explore its significance, successful initiatives to cultivate mindfulness, and tools available to measure it.

Mindfulness, the practice of paying attention to the present moment without judgment, is crucial for enhancing well-being and emotional regulation. It is linked to improved cognitive, emotional, and behavioral awareness. Mindfulness can be developed from childhood through adulthood via meditation, yoga, and educational programs. In this brief, we explore its significance, successful initiatives to cultivate mindfulness, and tools available to measure it.

We provide quasi-experimental estimates of the impact on formal employment of a labor intermediation and training program offered in Paraguay. The Program to Support Labor Insertion (PAIL for its Spanish name) revamped training program design in the country by offering courses aligned with the needs of the private sector, enhancing non-cognitive skills, and combining practical work within companies with classroom training.

We provide quasi-experimental estimates of the impact on formal employment of a labor intermediation and training program offered in Paraguay. The Program to Support Labor Insertion (PAIL for its Spanish name) revamped training program design in the country by offering courses aligned with the needs of the private sector, enhancing non-cognitive skills, and combining practical work within companies with classroom training.

This paper investigates the effectiveness of different interventions to promote teacher adoption and sustained use of a Computer-Assisted Learning (CAL) platform in public schools in Lima, Peru. The study evaluates three strategies: schoolwide workshops, targeted workshops for selected teachers, and a combination of workshops and personalized coaching. Using a large-scale randomized controlled trial involving low-performing schools, we find that all strategies significantly increased teacher registration and initial student engagement with the platform.

This paper investigates the effectiveness of different interventions to promote teacher adoption and sustained use of a Computer-Assisted Learning (CAL) platform in public schools in Lima, Peru. The study evaluates three strategies: schoolwide workshops, targeted workshops for selected teachers, and a combination of workshops and personalized coaching. Using a large-scale randomized controlled trial involving low-performing schools, we find that all strategies significantly increased teacher registration and initial student engagement with the platform.

This paper examines the impacts of a migrant regularization program implemented in Peru in 2021. We find that the regularization process positively impacted migrant integration through labor outcomes (access to a written contract and increased income), social outcomes, and access to health services. The results of this study provide evidence of the importance of regularization programs for migrant populations and their impacts on well-being and productive integration in a context of high employment informality and limited public service coverage.

This paper examines the labor market impact of an amnesty program in the Dominican Republic, that grants Venezuelan refugees and migrants an ID card that allows them to work legally. To identify the effect, we compare the outcomes of those who received and did not receive ID cards before and after they were issued, leveraging the unexpected timing of their distribution. Our findings reveal negligible effects on the extensive margin, but indicate positive effects on the quality of employment, particularly in the likelihood of having a written contract and working in the formal sector.

This policy note comprehensively summarizes the relationships between climate change and health, opportunities for contribution, and specific recommendations for intervention. The first section characterizes the impact of climate change on the health of populations and on health systems. The population can be directly affected by climate change, for example through heat waves and indirectly, e.g., through the effect of droughts on air pollution and food availability.

In Latin America and the Caribbean, the decisive factors for the future health workforce are manifold. The health workforce is the backbone of healthcare, with the common goal of improving the health of individuals and populations, but its characteristics, competencies and functions are evolving gradually. In attempting to predict the attributes and roles of the health workforce in the future, it is essential to examine social, occupational, cultural and technological contexts and trends, including those related to health, education and the environment.