Many OECD countries are aiming to reform their tertiary education (TE) systems. This work explores the determinants of the investment in TE, with a focus on institutional setting of TE systems and private incentives to undertake years of schooling beyond upper-secondary degree level. For this...

L'enseignement supérieur subit une profonde mutation, comment va-t-il subir le choc de l'harmonisation et de la mondialisation des diplômes ? Deux universitaires réputés, un mathématicien et un économiste, s'expriment sur la question et les réformes nécessaires.

The paper presents the GAMEO model. It is a dynamic microsimulation model which aims at analyse educational output. It develops a generational approach and put the stress on the ditribution of educational output differentiated by type an level of degree.

Influenced by the perceived link between higher levels of educational attainment and growth, the education sector has seen significant reform efforts in recent years in a number of countries. Public spending in this sector has increased on average by one-fifth in real terms over the past decade...

Since the beginning of the twentieth century, the education system in Peru has known a considerable development. This suggests that in all probabilities opportunities for study should be on a more equal basis. In the present article, I set out to discover whether all social groups have really...

Le développement considérable de l’enseignement qui caractérise le Pérou depuis le début du 20ème siècle suggère que l’accès à l’éducation scolaire est devenu plus égalitaire. Dans cet article, on cherche à savoir si réellement le développement a profité à tous de la même...

In this paper we attempt to analyze whether the apparent decline of the public system in terms of frequentation has gone along with a relative decline in the quality of public school education, in Madagascar. We develop an estimation method which is a variation of Heckman's procedure. A probit...