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Economic crises and returns to university education in middle-income countries : stylized facts and COVID-19 projections
Fasih, Tazeen; Patrinos, Harry Anthony; Shafiq, M. Najeeb - 2020
This paper documents stylized facts on rates of returns to education during economic crises. It shows from three middle …-income countries - Indonesia, Pakistan, and South Africa - that the rate of return to university education (versus secondary education …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012390668
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Do value-added estimates add value? : accounting for learning dynamics
Andrabi, Tahir; Das, Jishnu; Khwaja, Asim Ijaz; Zajonc, … - 2009
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003917189
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Migrant opportunity and the educational attainment of youth in rural China
De Brauw, Alan - 2008
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003709765
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How to interpret the growing phenomenon of private tutoring : human capital deepening, inequality increasing, or waste of resources?
Dang, Hai-anh (contributor); Rogers, F. Halsey (contributor) - 2008
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003709788
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Families, schools, and primary-school learning : evidence for Argentina and Colombia in an international perspective
Woessmann, Ludger - 2005
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10002716075
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What works to reduce inequalities in higher education? : a systematic review of the (quasi-)experimental literature on outreach and financial aid
Herbaut, Estelle; Geven, Koen - 2019
education. The quickly growing (quasi-)experimental literature on policy interventions in higher education provide the … education. The paper finds that outreach policies are broadly effective in increasing access for disadvantaged students when … general information on higher education. For financial aid, the paper finds that need-based grants do not systematically …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012008334
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Promotion with and without learning : effects on student enrollment and dropout behavior
King, Elizabeth M. (contributor);  … - 2008
"Many educators and policymakers have argued for lenient grade promotion policy - even automatic promotion - in developing country settings where grade retention rates are high. The argument assumes that grade retention discourages persistence or continuation in school and that the promotion of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003758877
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Schooling and labor market impacts of a natural policy experiment
Patrinos, Harry Anthony; Sakellariou, Christos N. - 2004
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10002505691
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The spillovers of employment guarantee programs on child labor and education
Li, Tianshu; Sekhri, Sheetal - 2020
Many developing countries use employment guarantee programs to combat poverty. This paper examines the consequences of such employment guarantee programs for the human capital accumulation of children. It exploits the phased roll-out of India's flagship Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012228189
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Progress and challenges of upper secondary education in China
Chen, Dandan; Fu, Ning; Pan, Yilin - 2019
Over the past decade, China's transition rate from lower secondary education to higher secondary education has … increased significantly, from 80.5 to 93.7 percent. In light of this impressive progress, the Chinese government aimed at … academic high school education could be a key bottleneck in further expansion. The way tracking operates between academic and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012121243