El presente trabajo pretende estudiar cuáles son los principales factores determinantes de los resultados académicos de los estudiantes de educación media en Uruguay. Para ello se analizan los datos de PISA 2012 a través de un modelo jerárquico lineal (HLM por sus siglas en inglés),...

Este documento analiza la relación entre las características familiares y el acceso a la educación postobligatoria en Colombia. Para ello, se estima un modelo probit ordenado robusto usando siete cohortes con los datos de la Gran Encuesta Integrada de Hogares (GEIH) para el periodo entre los...

School choice is one of the most researched topics in the educational sciences in the last decades. Its importance in reorganizing educational systems in many countries is unquestionable. Current literature underline that its impact should be positive under certain policy framework: this is...

There is a well established theoretical literature about the private individual investment in education decision, based upon the traditional neoclassical literature, dating back to Becker. This framework also addresses the issue of the employer’s investment in training, although it is less...

The lack of formal education and competences of the Portuguese workers is one of the biggest problems of the country. This lack is not shrinking at the wanted speed and the young generations still lag far behind the ones in other OCDE countries. This paper studies the intergenerational...

Previous studies have shown that there is a positive relationship between environmental education and pro-environmental behaviors and attitudes. The aim of this study is to describe an empirical approach to measuring aspects of environmental science literacy through using data from OECD PISA...

El objetivo de este trabajo es estudiar la problemática de la equidad educativa en la Argentina, definiéndola desde el punto de vista de los resultados. Para ello, se realiza un análisis empírico haciendo uso de diferentes indicadores y teniendo en cuenta tanto la cantidad como la calidad...

The purpose of this work is to assess the effects of the extraordinary expansion of higher education supply in Colombia during the 1990s on the equality of tertiary education opportunity. In this work, the notion of increasing equality of opportunity is associated with a reduction in the...

It is well known in the educational literature that public and private-voucher schools show different production technologies and present differences in the productivity of their educational inputs due to management issues. On the one hand the students attending public schools differ in their...

The UK is far from unique in having a problem with low levels of basic skills amongst a group of its working age population. However, the rates of innumeracy and illiteracy identified by the Moser Report, 1999 and the Skills for Life Survey, 2003 were viewed as unacceptably high for an advanced...