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What Makes a Program Good? Evidence from Short-Cycle Higher Education Programs in Five Developing Countries

Dinarte-Diaz, Lelys; Ferreira, María M.; Urzua, Sergio; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

Short-cycle higher education programs (SCPs) can play a central role in skill development and higher education expansion, yet their quality varies greatly within and among countries. In this paper we explore the relationship between programs' practices and inputs (quality determinants) and...

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Does School Autonomy Make Sense Everywhere? Panel Estimates from PISA

Hanushek, Eric A. - 2011

Decentralization of decision-making is among the most intriguing recent school reforms, in part because countries went in opposite directions over the past decade and because prior evidence is inconclusive. We suggest that autonomy may be conducive to student achievement in well-developed...

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The Role of School Improvement in Economic Development

Hanushek, Eric A. - 2007

The role of improved schooling, a central part of most development strategies, has become controversial because expansion of school attainment has not guaranteed improved economic conditions. This paper reviews the role of education in promoting economic well-being, with a particular focus on...

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Land, Labor and Globalization in the Pre-Industrial Third World

Williamson, Jeffrey G. - 2000

A Third World data base documenting commodity and factor prices 1870-1940 has been collected, yielding annual time … for 10 in the so-called greater Atlantic economy: Australia, Britain, Canada, Denmark, France, Germany, Ireland, Spain …/rental ratios the world round between 1870 and 1940. The data offer a useful way to identify the impact of globalization on the pre …

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Commodity Price Volatility and World Market Integration since 1700

Jacks, David S. - 2009

of life deep into the 18th century. Does world market integration breed more or less commodity price volatility? The … been associated with much greater commodity price volatility, while world market integration associated with peace and pro … never been constant. Globalization increased poor country specialization in commodities when the world went open after the …

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Financial Globalization : A Reappraisal

Kose, M. Ayhan - 2006

The literature on the benefits and costs of financial globalization for developing countries has exploded in recent years, but along many disparate channels with a variety of apparently conflicting results. We attempt to provide a unified conceptual framework for organizing this vast and growing...

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Globalization and Poverty

Harrison, Ann - 2006

This essay surveys the evidence on the linkages between globalization and poverty. I focus on two measures of globalization: trade and international capital flows. Past researchers have argued that global economic integration should help the poor since poor countries have a comparative advantage...

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Globalization, Structural Change and Productivity Growth

McMillan, Margaret S. - 2011

Large gaps in labor productivity between the traditional and modern parts of the economy are a fundamental reality of developing societies. In this paper, we document these gaps, and emphasize that labor flows from low-productivity activities to high-productivity activities are a key driver of...

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Getting Inside the "Black Box" of Head Start Quality : What Matters and What Doesn't?

Currie, Janet - 2003

Critics of Head Start contend that many programs spend too much money on programs extraneous to education. On the other hand, Head Start advocates argue that severely disadvantaged children need a broad range of services. Given the available evidence, it has been impossible to assess the...

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Education as Liberation?

Friedman, Willa - 2011

Scholars have long speculated about education's political impacts, variously arguing that it promotes modern or pro-democratic attitudes; that it instills acceptance of existing authority; and that it empowers the disadvantaged to challenge authority. To avoid endogeneity bias, if schooling...

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