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Learning-Adjusted Years of Schooling (LAYS) : Defining a New Macro Measure of Education
Filmer, Deon - 2018
The standard summary metric of education-based human capital used in macro analyses - the average number of years of schooling in a population - is based only on quantity. But ignoring schooling quality turns out to be a major omission. As recent research shows, students in different countries...
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Educational Upgrading and Returns to Skills in Latin America : Evidence from a Supply-Demand Framework, 1990-2010
Gasparini, Leonardo - 2017
educational upgrading of its labor force. Between 1990 and 2010, the proportion of the labor force in the region with at least … 1990s. This paper studies the evolution of wage differentials and the trends in the supply of workers by educational level … for 16 Latin American countries between 1990 and 2000. The analysis estimates the relative contribution of supply and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012975545
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Is Optimization an Opportunity? An Assessment of the Impact of Class Size and School Size on the Performance of Ukrainian Secondary Schools
Coupe, Tom - 2017
Using a rich data set of almost the entire population of Ukrainian secondary schools, the authors estimate the effect of school size and class size on the performance of secondary schools on Ukraine's External Independent Test. They find that larger schools tend to have somewhat better...
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Heterogenous Peer Effects, Segregation and Academic Attainment
Lugo, Maria Ana - 2017
Socioeconomic segregation is often decried for denying poorer children the benefits of positive' peer effects'. Yet standard, linear-in-means models of peer effects (a) implicitly assume that segregation is zero sum, with gains and losses to rich and poor perfectly offsetting, and (b) rule out...
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Shrinking Classroom Age Variance Raises Student Achievement : Evidence from Developing Countries
Wang, Liang Choon - 2017
Large classroom variance of student age is prevalent in developing countries, where achievement tends to be low. This paper investigates whether increased classroom age variance adversely affects mathematics and science achievement. Using exogenous variation in the variance of student age in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012976210
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Private Education Provision and Public Finance : The Netherlands
Patrinos, Harry A. - 2017
One of the key features of the Dutch education system is freedom of education -- freedom to establish schools and organize teaching. Almost 70 percent of schools in the Netherlands are administered by private school boards, and all schools are government funded equally. This allows school...
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When Can School Inputs Improve Test Scores?
Das, Jishnu - 2016
The relationship between school inputs and educational outcomes is critical for educational policy. The authors recognize that households will respond optimally to changes in school inputs and study how such responses affect the link between school inputs and cognitive achievement. To...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012747181
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Schools Meals, Educational Achievement and School Competition : Evidence from a Randomized Evaluation
Vermeersch, Christel - 2017
This paper examines the effects of subsidized school meals on school participation, educational achievement, and school finance in a developing country setting. The paper uses data from a program that was implemented in 25 randomly chosen preschools in a pool of 50. Children's school...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012966157
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Migrant Opportunity and the Educational Attainment of Youth in Rural China
de Brauw, Alan - 2017
attend high school in rural China. Change in the cost of migration is identified using exogenous variation across counties in … by geographic convergence in access to education across rural China …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012746804
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Economic Structure, Development Policy and Environmental Quality : An Empirical Analysis of Environmental Kuznets Curves with Chinese Municipal Data
He, Jie - 2017
-level panel dataset obtained from China. The results show that economic structure, development strategy and environmental …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012975841