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This book aims to contribute to the World Bank's education agenda by communicating research findings on the impact of education quality on economic growth. Eric Hanushek and Ludger Wößmann show that indeed the quality of education, rather than mere access to education, is what impacts economic...

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Skills for the 21st century in Latin America and the Caribbean

Aedo, Cristián - 2012

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Vocational schooling, labor market outcomes, and college entry

Chen, Dandan - 2009

students in 1997 to examine their schooling and employment status in 2000. The findings demonstrate that: (1) attendance at …

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The great proletarian cultural revolution, disruptions to education, and returns to schooling in urban China

Giles, John - 2008

graduates instead of the high unobserved ability of students who choose to attend post-secondary education. To this end, the … experienced greater disruptions, children's educational attainment became less correlated with that of their fathers and more … selection of high-ability students into higher education. The analysis also demonstrates that these results are unlikely to be …

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Public-private sector wage differentials and returns to education in Djibouti

Anás Casero, Paloma - 2006

of their personal attributes and human capital endowments, and are more likely to be males and have parents in the public …

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Is formal lifelong learning a profitable investment for all of life? : how age, education level, and flexibility of provision affect rates of return to adult education in Colombia

Sohnesen, Thomas Pave - 2005

"Lifelong learning is increasingly being recognized as a primary factor for knowledge diffusion and productivity growth. However, little economic evidence exists on the economic value of lifelong learning for the individual, especially in developing countries. This paper contributes to remedy...

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Estimating the returns to education in Argentina : 1992-2002

Giovagnoli, Paula Ines - 2005

"The authors estimate returns to schooling in urban Argentina for a 10-year period. In addition to comparable earnings functions, they also estimate the returns using quantile regression analysis to detect differences in the returns across the distribution. Over time, men in higher quantiles...

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Rising returns to schooling in Argentina, 1992-2002 : productivity or credentialism?

Savanti, Maria Paula - 2005

"There has not been much change in the premium to primary education, while the returns to secondary education increased, but by less than the premium to university. The returns to incomplete university also increased significantly. There is a signal that there might be credentialism at the...

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Schooling and labor market impacts of a natural policy experiment

Sakellariou, Chris N. - 2004

"Patrinos and Sakellariou use a nationally representative household survey to estimate returns to schooling in Venezuela from instrumental variables based on a supply-side intervention in the education market. These estimates apply to a subgroup of liquidity-constrained individuals, in the...

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Economic volatility and returns to education in Venezuela : 1992-2002

Sakellariou, Chris N. - 2004

"Preliminary evidence suggests that the rates of return to education in Venezuela have been declining since the 1970s. Patrinos and Sakellariou rigorously estimate the returns to education in Venezuela for the period 1992-2002 and link them to earlier available estimates from the 1980s. They use...

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