Download or read book Essays on the Economics of Education in Developing Countries written by Priscila Hermida and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 570 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first chapter of this thesis provides descriptive measures of the intergenerational transmission of education in Guatemala, and how it has evolved during the XXth century. The results show white men and indigenous women, respectively at the top and at the bottom of the education distribution, have higher levels of persistence in educational attainment across cohorts. The gap in average schooling between ethnicities is growing across generations; and subgroup means are not converging over time to the overall mean. The second chapter estimates the causal long-term effect of the earthquake that hit Guatemala in 1976 on the educational attainment and adult height of children. The findings show detrimental effects on individuals who were in early childhood, or of school-going age at the time. These children have respectively 0.2 and 0.4 fewer years of schooling on average in adulthood per each additional SD in earthquake's intensity. Females were disproportionately affected. School-aged children and younger children of shorter mothers in affected areas suffered reductions in height. The results indicate natural disasters are not gender neutral and can have long-term consequences on human capital formation. The third chapter explores the effect of eliminating a one-off parental payment at the time of enrollment in the public education system in Ecuador, on the dropout rate during the academic year 2008-2009. The results show the mean impact of the elimination of the enrollment fee was an increase in the probability of staying in school of 2 percentage points. A larger impact was found for pupils living in urban areas, for students above the median of the income distribution and for males. These findings suggest the initiative had a positive effect overall, but failed to reach children from more at-risk groups of the school aged population.
Download or read book Essays on the Economics of Education in Developing Countries written by Evan Borkum and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Essays on the Economics of Education in Developing Countries written by Asankha Pallegedara and published by LAP Lambert Academic Publishing. This book was released on 2011-10 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Economists and policy makers around the world believe that education promotes economic growth and reduces the poverty. Investment in education helps to increase individual productivity that provide better earnings, and reduces the inequality in the society. Many governments in developing countries realized the importance of education and implemented new policy initiatives to improve education. Many developing countries introduced free education policies, school expansion programs, and conditional cash transfer programs to increase the quantity of education. Although these new policies help to achieve significant progress in education, many children in developing countries are still not enrolling in schools or receiving a low-quality education. Furthermore, gender disparity in education is another concern in many developing countries. This study assess both quantity and quality aspect of education policy in developing countries using two case studies in Uganda and Sri Lanka.
Download or read book Essays on the Economics of Education in Developed and Developing Countries written by Joydeep Roy and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Essays on the Economics of Education in Developing Countries written by Lee Crawfurd and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Economics of Education in Developing Countries written by Sebastián Piñera and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Three Essays on Economics of Education in Developing Countries written by Mustafa Şeref Akın and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Essays on the Economics of Health and Education in Developing Countries written by Eugenie Windkouni Haoua Maîga and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Essays on the Economics of Education and Family Formation in Developing Countries written by Ifeatu Oliobi and published by . This book was released on 2023 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I find that conflict induces men to delay first marriage and first birth, but there are no significant impacts on the timing of these activities for women. Both men and women who are exposed to the war have fewer children, and women also desire fewer children overall. Additionally, women who were exposed to the war have a smaller age difference from their husbands and are less likely to be married to men who have other wives. They are also less likely to experience domestic violence, on average. War exposure has no effect on the education difference between spouses, but women's educational attainment increases, on average, while that of men decreases. Finally, I find no effects of war exposure on women's relational empowerment, in terms of their attitudes to domestic violence and intra-household decision-making, but they are less likely to be engaged in paid work. This study contributes new evidence on the long-term impact of armed conflict on family formation in sub-Saharan Africa and shows how these impacts vary by gender and the age and duration of war exposure.
Download or read book Essays on Economic and Education Reforms in Developing Countries written by Renjie Ge and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Economic restructuring changes the distribution of labor earnings and family incomes, with
Download or read book Essays on the Economics of Education in Developing Countries written by Karthik Muralidharan and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first essay (joint with Nazmul Chaudhury, Jeffrey Hammer, Michael Kremer, and Halsey Rogers) presents results from a cross-country study of teacher and medical worker absence in public schools and clinics in developing countries. We find that on any given day, an average of 19 percent of teachers and 35 percent of health workers are absent. We find that absence rates are generally higher in poorer regions. Absence is fairly widespread, rather than being concentrated on a small number of "ghost" workers.
Download or read book Shaping the Learning Curve written by Franklin G. Mixon Jr. and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2005 with total page 149 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edited volume contains a collection of essays that reflect a broad area of economic education inquiry ranging from teaching assessment to the philosophy of the classroom. Written by economics scholars from across the nation, this volume presents recent discoveries in presentation, assessment, and other aspects of economic education at colleges and universities in the U.S. These articles represent but a sample of the growing commentary among academics on the importance of effective teaching and economic education scholarship.
Download or read book Essays in Development Economics Wealth and poverty written by Jagdish N. Bhagwati and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 1985 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volume I, Wealth and Poverty, addresses domestic or internal development problems.
Download or read book Three Essays on the Economics of Education and Early Childhood written by Francisco Haimovich Paz and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In these essays, I study the long-term effects of education policies and birth order on educational and labor market outcomes. In my first chapter I study the long-term effects of one of the first early education programs in the US - the Kindergarten Movement (1890-1910). I collected unique data on the opening of public kindergartens across cities in the US during this period. I then link over 100,000 children living in these cities to subsequent Censuses where their adult outcomes can be observed. I find that kindergarten attendance had large effects on adult outcomes. On average, the affected cohorts had about 0.6 additional years of schooling and six percent more income (as measured by occupational score). These effects were substantially larger for second generation immigrant children. The effects of this early intervention are most likely due to language acquisition and the attainment of various "soft skills" early in childhood. The second chapter was co-authored with Maria Laura Alzua and Leonardo Gasparini, who directed the project. In this chapter, we study the long-term effects of an educational reform in Argentina. In the nineties Argentina implemented a large education reform that mainly implied the extension of compulsory education in two additional years. The timing in the implementation substantially varied across provinces, providing a source of identification of the causal effects of the reform. The estimations from difference-in-difference models suggest that the reform had a positive impact on years of education and the probability of high school graduation. The impact on labor market outcomes was positive for the non-poor youths, but almost null for the poor. In my third chapter I use US historical data to empirically test whether long-term birth order effects differ across the leading and lagging regions of the country in the Pre-War World II period. To do so, I create a large panel dataset by linking more than two million children across the 1920 and the 1940 full census counts, and to the World War II army enlistment records. I then study birth order effects on various long-term outcomes (with emphasis on educational outcomes). I find that in general, birth order effects are positive in the "developing" south--i.e. younger siblings do better than older siblings-- and negative in the relatively modern north, which is consistent with the available evidence from contemporary data for developed and developing countries. I then exploit state level variation to show that birth order effects are positively correlated with the share of rural population, child labor rates and negatively correlated with the level mechanization in agriculture. I also show that, regardless the state of birth, the effects tend to be larger for the poor. Finally, I complement the analysis by looking at birth order effects on earnings and adult height. While I find relatively similar results for earnings, I find no birth order effects on adult height, which suggests that we can rule out improvements in health or nutrition as the potential mechanisms behind the effects on education and labor outcomes.
Download or read book Essays on the Economics of Education in Ghana written by Amanda Aku Ahornam Awadey and published by . This book was released on 2023 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is key because, despite enormous strides in increasing school enrollment in developing countries, widespread low and stagnant learning outcomes remain a concern for policymakers and an active line of inquiry for researchers. Exploiting time-series variation from this quasi-random experiment, I implement a cohort analysis and a regression discontinuity design that leverages a compulsory school start law to examine the impact on learning at the end of high school, collegiate attainment, and labor market outcomes. I find significant positive effects on learning, with females benefiting more. Varying impact sizes across baseline ability levels suggest an extreme curricular gap in this setting. This reform has some positive impact on the decision to apply to college. Furthermore, young individuals who gain from increasing the depth of human capital but do not further their education beyond high school are more likely to be engaged in paid employment outside their household, although males drive these gains.
Download or read book Essays on Education in Developing Countries written by Olga Marcela Namen Leon and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 149 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Finally, the third chapter examines the relationship between conflict exposure and human capital investment in the context of Southern Thailand. In this region, rebel forces strategically utilize violence against students and teachers attending or working in state-run secular schools and it has been suggested that these tactics have led a large student population to exit schools and enroll in mixed curriculum or Islamic schools. Moreover, exit and enrollment may have had differential effects among female and male students. We match individual-level socioeconomic information with data on insurgent attacks to analyze how school enrollment changed with exposure to violent conflict. Our empirical strategy exploits variation in the exposure to violent attacks during 2005-2009 across subdistricts. We find that children of secondary school age have a lower probability of being enrolled in subdistricts with higher-level of violence. Moreover, our results indicate that males are disproportionately more affected than females. Understanding how educational investment decisions change in response to violence exposure informs a range of potential policy interventions in conflict settings.
Download or read book Essays on the Economics of Education written by Elizabeth Dhuey and published by ProQuest. This book was released on 2007 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The final chapter is "The Persistence of Early Childhood Maturity: International Evidence of Long-Run Age Effects." A continuum of ages exists at school entry due to the use of a single school cut-off date--making the "oldest" children approximately twenty percent older than the "youngest" children. We provide substantial evidence that these initial maturity differences have long lasting effects on student performance across OECD countries. In particular, the youngest members of each cohort score 4-12 percentiles lower than the oldest members in grade four and 2-9 percentiles lower in grade eight. In fact, data from Canada and the United States shows that the youngest members of each cohort are even less likely to attend university.
