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How Good Are Ex Ante Program Evaluation Techniques? the Case of School Enrollment in PROGRESA

Bornhorst, Fabian - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2009

This paper evaluates a microsimulation technique by comparing the simulated outcome of a program with its actual effect. The ex ante evaluation is carried out for a conditional cash transfer program, where poor households were given money if the children attended school. A model of occupational...

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Trade Adjustment and Human Capital Investment; Evidence From Indian Tariff Reform

Edmonds, Eric V.; Pavcnik, Nina; Topalova, Petia - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2007

Do the short and medium term adjustment costs associated with trade liberalization influence schooling and child labor … experienced a dramatic increase in schooling and decline in child labor. However, communities that relied heavily on employment in … protected industries before liberalization do not experience as large an increase in schooling or decline in child labor. The …

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Social Returns to Education; Evidence From Italian Local Labor Market Areas

Dalmazzo, A.; Blasio, Guido De - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2003

The paper provides a quantitative assessment of social returns to education in Italy. It shows that, after controlling for individual characteristics, local average human capital is positively correlated with individual wages, with estimated social returns between 2 and 3 percent. This result is...

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Composition of Government Expenditures and Demand for Education in Developing Countries

Matovu, John; Dabla-Norris, Era - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2002

heterogeneous agents in which altruistic parents make schooling decisions for their children. In the presence of fixed and variable … costs for different levels of schooling, we show that reducing household costs of primary education has the largest positive …

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The Impact of Ethnic Heterogeneityon the Quantity and Quality of Public Spending

Kuijs, Louis - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2000

The paper investigates empirically the impact of ethnic heterogeneity on the amount of public spending on health and education and the quality, or “technical efficiency” of spending. While it finds partial evidence for the claim that more heterogeneous societies spend less on public goods,...

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The Distributional Bias of Public Education; Causes and Consequences

Gradstein, Mark; Dabla-Norris, Era - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2004

While public education is often intended to be progressive in its effects on income distribution, in reality its incidence is often skewed toward the rich. This paper argues that the extent of this bias is directly related to institutional weaknesses in governance. We present a simple dynamic...

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Educational Choices and Educational Constraints; Evidence From Bolivia

Inchauste, Gabriela - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2000

Recent efforts at poverty alleviation emphasize increasing government spending on education. However, even if spending were perfectly targeted, it is not evident that spending by itself will lead to higher educational attainment. Bolivian household data is used in this paper to ascertain the...

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Columbia or High School? Understanding the Roles of Education in Development

Ramcharan, Rodney - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2002

a vital role in facilitating development. But which types of schooling-secondary or tertiary-should public policy … stock determines a country's development. Hence, promoting the "wrong" type of schooling can have little effect on … empirical studies have failed to find a significant relationship between schooling and growth. …

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Emigration and Wages in Source Countries; Evidence From Mexico

Mishra, Prachi - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2006

This paper empirically examines the effect on wages in Mexico of Mexican emigration to the United States, using data from the Mexican and United States censuses from 1970-2000. The main result in the paper is that emigration has a strong and positive effect on Mexican wages. There is also...

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A Hybrid Approach to Estimating the Efficiency of Public Spending on Education in Emerging and Developing Economies

Grigoli, Francesco - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2014

The measurement of the efficiency of public education expenditure using parametric and non-parametric methods has proven challenging. This paper seeks to overcome the difficulties of earlier studies by using a hybrid approach to measure the efficiency of secondary education spending in emerging...

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