What Educational Production Functions Really Show
Author : Lant Pritchett
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 54 pages
File Size : 12,19 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Educacion
ISBN :
Author : Lant Pritchett
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 54 pages
File Size : 12,19 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Educacion
ISBN :
Author : James S. Coleman
Publisher :
Page : 754 pages
File Size : 26,67 MB
Release : 1966
Category : African Americans
ISBN :
Author : Henk F. Moed
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 791 pages
File Size : 44,30 MB
Release : 2006-02-23
Category : Science
ISBN : 1402027559
This handbook offers a state-of-the-art overview of quantitative science and technology research. It focuses on the development and application of indicators derived from data on scientific or scholarly publications and patents. It comprises 34 chapters written by leading specialists in the various sub-domains. These chapters deal with theoretical and methodological issues, illustrate applications, and highlight their policy context and relevance. Authors present a survey of the research topics they address, and show their most recent achievements. The 34 chapters are arranged into 5 parts: Disciplinary Approaches; General Methodology; The Science System; The Technology System; and The Science–Technology Interface. The Editor’s Introduction provides a further specification of the handbook’s scope and of the main topics addressed in its chapters. This handbook aims at four distinct groups of readers: – practitioners in the field of science and technology studies; – research students in this field; – scientists, scholars and technicians who are interested in a systematic, thorough analysis of their activities; – policy makers and administrators who wish to be informed about the potentialities and limitations of the various approaches and about their results.
Author : Francois Bourguignon
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 21 pages
File Size : 37,62 MB
Release : 2012
Category :
ISBN :
Measuring the incidence of public spending in education requires an intergenerational framework distinguishing between what current and future generations - that is, parents and children - give and receive. In standard distributional incidence analysis, households are assumed to receive a benefit equal to what is spent on their children enrolled in the public schooling system and, implicitly, to pay a fee proportional to their income. This paper shows that, in an intergenerational framework, this is equivalent to assuming perfectly altruistic individuals, in the sense of the dynastic model, and perfect capital markets. But in practice, credit markets are imperfect and poor households cannot borrow against the future income of their children. The authors show that under such circumstances, standard distributional incidence analysis may greatly over-estimate the progressivity of public spending in education: educational improvements that are progressive in the long-run steady state may actually be regressive for the current generation of poor adults. This is especially true where service delivery in education is highly inefficient - as it is in poor districts of many developing countries - so that the educational benefits received are relatively low in comparison with the cost of public spending. The results have implications for both policy measures and analytical approaches.
Author : Bob Moon
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 47,72 MB
Release : 2013
Category : Education
ISBN : 0415600715
In developing countries across the world, qualified teachers are a rarity, with thousands of untrained adults taking over the role and millions of children having no access to schooling at all. Teacher Education and the Challenge of Development is co-written by experts working across a wide range of developing country situations. It provides a unique overview of the crisis surrounding the provision of high-quality teachers in the developing world, and how these teachers are crucial to the alleviation of poverty. The book explores existing policy structures and identifies the global pressures on teaching, which are particularly acute in developing economies.
Author : Halil Dundar
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 421 pages
File Size : 30,21 MB
Release : 2014-05-30
Category : Education
ISBN : 1464801614
This book analyzes the performance of South Asian educational systems and identifies the causes and correlates of student learning outcomes. Drawing on successful initiatives both in the region and elsewhere in the world, it offers an insightful approach to setting priorities for enhancing the quality of school education in South Asia.
Author : Emiliana Vegas
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 47,59 MB
Release : 2007-09-26
Category : Education
ISBN : 0821370839
Understanding what and how students learn has emerged as a salient issue in Latin America, a region where the majority of children now have access to schools but few students learn the skills they need to succeed. 'Raising Student Learning in Latin America' examines recent advances in our understanding of the policies and programs that affect student learning and provides policy makers with effective options. This volume relies on indicators from national and international assessments of subject matter knowledge plus intermediate learning indicators, such as dropout and completion rates. The first part focuses on the central role of student learning in education. The second part reviews the evidence on factors and policies that affect student learning. The final part addresses policy optons on education quality assurance.
Author : Harriet Nannyonjo
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 110 pages
File Size : 48,15 MB
Release : 2007-01-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 082137057X
This report is based on a study prompted by the need for improved effectiveness in the use of education resources in Uganda. Uganda's problem with increasing resource constraints for education is common in many developing countries and the lessons learned in this study may be of broad interest. Currently, Uganda allocates over 31 percent of its discretionary recurrent expenditure to education and 67 percent of this is allocated to primary education. Given increasing pressures on the budgets, there is need to implement strategies focusing on those inputs most likely to improve student learning. A major impediment to rational decision making in this area is lack of knowledge about what interventions work best and under what circumstances. Without this knowledge, Government may continue spending scarce resources on inputs that may not directly contribute to student learning achievement.
Author : Nancy Vandycke
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 58 pages
File Size : 37,25 MB
Release : 2001-01-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780821349656
This paper focuses on the long-term benefits of education. It also examines the supply of education, the short-term incentives to invest in education for the poor, and draws on the policy implications. This paper also stresses the need to study further the determinants of school enrollment among the poor.
Author : Daniele Checchi
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 5 pages
File Size : 16,45 MB
Release : 2006-03-23
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1139449370
In an important contribution to educational policy, Daniele Checchi offers an economic perspective on the demand and supply of education. He explores the reasons why, beyond a certain point, investment in education has not resulted in reductions in social inequalities. Starting with the seminal work of Gary Becker, Checchi provides an extensive survey of the literature on human capital and social capital formation. He draws on individual data on intergenerational transmission of income and education for the USA, Germany and Italy, as well as aggregate data on income and educational inequality for a much wider range of countries. Checchi explores whether resources spent in education are effective in raising students' achievement, as well as analysing alternative ways of financing education. The Economics of Education thus provides the analytical tools necessary to understand the complex relationships between current income inequality, access to education and future inequality.