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Returns to education in the economic transition : a systematic assessment using comparable data

Flabbi, Luca; Paternostro, Stefano; Tiongson, Erwin R. - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2007

This paper examines the assertion that returns to schooling increase as an economy transitions to a market environment. This claim has been difficult to assess as existing empirical evidence covers only a few countries over short time periods. A number of studies find that returns to education...

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Quality of schooling, returns to schooling and the 1981 vouchers reform in Chile

Patrinos, Harry Anthony - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2008

This paper exploits unique information on cognitive ability to examine the importance of schooling and non-schooling cognitive skills for heterogeneous individuals using instrumental variables estimation. Using a binary instrument based on the 1981 reform in Chile, the authors find that the main...

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Estimating the returns to education : accounting for heterogeneity in ability

Patrinos, Harry Anthony; Ridao-Cano, Cris; Sakellariou, … - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2006

Typically estimates of the benefits of education investments show average private rates of return for the average individual. The average may not be useful for policy. An examination of the distribution of the returns across individuals is needed. The few studies that have examined these...

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Skills shortages and training in Russian enterprises

Tan, Hong; Savchenko, Yevgeniya; Gimpelson, Vladimir; … - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2007

In the transition to a market economy, the Russian workforce underwent a wrenching period of change, with excess supply of some industrial skills coexisting with reports of skills shortages by many enterprises. This paper uses data from the Russia Competitiveness and Investment Climate Survey...

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Does parental disability matter to child education ? evidence from Vietnam

Cuong, Nguyen Viet; Mont, Daniel - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2011

This paper examines the effect of parental disability on school enrollment and educational performance for children in … of parents with a disability have a lower enrollment rate in primary and secondary school of about 8 percentage points …: 73 percent compared with 81 percent. However, the association of parental disability with educational performance is …

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Gender, ethnicity and cumulative disadvantage in education : evidence from Latin American and African censuses

Tas, Emcet O.; Reimao, Maira Emy; Orlando, Maria Beatriz - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2013

This paper studies the impact of gender and ethnicity on educational outcomes using cross-country evidence from Bolivia, Mexico, Peru, Senegal, and Sierra Leone. It uses the Minnesota Population Center's Integrated Public Use Microdata Series-International database, which includes...

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Social exclusion and the gender gap in education

Lewis, Maureen; Lockheed, Marlaine - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2008

Despite a sharp increase in the share of girls who enroll in, attend, and complete various levels of schooling, an educational gender gap remains in some countries. This paper argues that one explanation for this gender gap is the degree of social exclusion within these countries, as indicated...

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The measurement of educational inequality : achievement and opportunity

Ferreira, Francisco H. G.; Gignoux, Jeremie - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2011

This paper proposes two related measures of educational inequality: one for educational achievement and another for educational opportunity. The former is the simple variance (or standard deviation) of test scores. Its selection is informed by consideration of two measurement issues that have...

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Pre-employment vocational education and training in Korea

Chae, ChangKyun; Chung, Jaeho - World Bank Group - 2009

The Korean vocational education and training (VET) system is heralded as one of the key factors contributing to the countries past economic growth. VET has played an important role in developing a skilled labor force during Korea's economic development. However, with the increasing importance of...

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Setting reasonable performance targets for public service delivery

Newman, John L.; Azevedo, Joao Pedro - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2013

Reaching agreement on a reasonable performance target is a challenge, with costs associated with getting it wrong. Attention in the literature has focused on the potential negative effects of gaming or of creaming. However, even if there is no gaming or creaming taking place, there can still be...

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