Empathy and compassion are vital skills for emotional and social development, motivating prosocial behaviors and effective conflict resolution. Empathy involves understanding others' emotions, while compassion drives actions to alleviate their suffering. These skills can be developed through educational programs and interventions like mindfulness and emotional intelligence training. In this brief, we introduce more about its relevance, successful initiatives to foster them, and tools to measure them.

In 2020, during the COVID-19 pandemic, the "Digital Hospital" project of Genexus Consulting was selected from 500 proposals in the call of the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) to promote innovative and technological solutions in the field of health in Paraguay. This project sought to implement a health information exchange platform at the National Cancer Institute (INCAN) to improve patient care through interoperability of information systems.

This case study underscores the significance of digitalization in healthcare, exemplified by Korea's successful integration of electronic health record (EHR) systems, which has markedly enhanced clinical services quality and efficiency. Focusing on the Seoul National University Bundang Hospital (SNUBH), a leading national multispecialty academic medical center in Korea, the case study details the hospital's journey towards digitalization through the implementation of its interoperable EHR system, BESTCare.

The Republic of Korea's management of the COVID-19 pandemic showcases an exemplary model through its robust and comprehensive approach, underscored by decisive leadership and a unified governmental strategy using ICT tools. Central to its success was the deployment of the 3T strategy (Testing, Tracing, Treatment) and a four-pillar policy response centered on Openness, Transparency, Civic Engagement, and Innovativeness.

Resilience, the ability to recover positively from stress or trauma, is essential for personal development and well-being. It is linked to socioemotional skills and social relationships, such as family and friends. Resilience development can begin in early childhood through adulthood through age-specific activities and routines. In this brief, we introduce more about its relevance, as well as successful initiatives to foster these skills and the existing tools to measure them.

Resilience, the ability to recover positively from stress or trauma, is essential for personal development and well-being. It is linked to socioemotional skills and social relationships, such as family and friends. Resilience development can begin in early childhood through adulthood through age-specific activities and routines. In this brief, we introduce more about its relevance, as well as successful initiatives to foster these skills and the existing tools to measure them.

Due to an unprecedented rise in demand, in 2020 the Peruvian Ministry of Education implemented a centralized assignment mechanism that allowed thousands of students at various levels of education to move from the private to the public sector. In this paper, we empirically explore the determinants of accepting a public school assignment and, subsequently, remaining in the public system.

We study the impact on learning of a child's rank in the classroom using a unique experiment from Ecuador. Within each school, students were randomly assigned to classrooms in every grade between kindergarten and 6th grade. Therefore, two students with the same ability can have different classroom ranks because of the (random) peer composition of their classroom. To isolate the impact of rank from other peer influences we include classroom fixed effects.

Empirical results in economics often stem from success in controlled experimental settings, but often fail when scaled up. This study presents a behavioral intervention and a scalable equivalent aimed at reducing teacher shortages by motivating high school students to pursue an education degree. The intervention was delivered through WhatsApp chats by trained human promoters (humans arm) and rule-based Chatbots programmed to closely replicate the humans program (bots arm).