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    • A rigorous review of the political economy of education systems in developing countries 

      Gandhi Kingdon, Geeta; Little, Angela; Aslam, Monazza; Rawal, Shenila; Moe, Terry; Patrinos, Harry; Beteille, Tara; Banerji, Rukmini; Parton, Brent; Sharma, Shailendra K. (EPPI-Centre, 2014-04)
      Teachers and schools do not exist in isolation of the larger world around them. Frequently, many of their actions – and the school outcomes that they are accountable for – are influenced by incentives and constraints ...
    • Addresing the Education Puzzle : The Distribution of Education and Economic Reform 

      López, Ramón; Thomas, Vinod; Wang, Yan (World Bank, 1998-12)
      No country has achieved sustained economic development without substantially investing in human capital. Previous studies have shown the handsome returns to various forms of basic education, research, training, learning-by-doing, ...
    • Capacity Building in Economics : Education and Research in Transition Economies 

      Pleskovic, Boris; Aslund, Anders; Bader, William; Campbell, Robert (World Bank, 2002-01)
      The development of the institutional capacity to create and evaluate economic policies remains a critical need-and constraint-in most transition economies if they are to complete the successful passage to fully functioning ...
    • Capacity Building in Economics Education and Research 

      Pleskovic, Boris, ed.; Bourguignon, François, ed.; Elkana, Yehuda, ed. (World Bank, 2007)
      It´s a contribution to our understanding of building local capacity in economics education and research in developing and transition countries. Over the past 20 years, the World Bank and its committed partners have supported ...
    • Capital humano y rendimientos de la educación en México 

      Barceinas Paredes, Fernando (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Departament d'Economia Aplicada, 2001-04)
      La tesis analiza la relación ingresos-educación en México a través del cálculo de las tasas de rentabilidad de la educación con base en la información de la Encuesta Nacional de Ingreso-Gasto de los Hogares de 1994 y 1996. ...
    • Discusiones en economía de la educación 

      Morduchowicz, Alejandro (Losada, 2004-03)
      Plantea una discusión sobre la eficiencia y de eficacia que hay que saber articula en materia educativa. Indica que la asignación de recursos para la educación es siempre una cuestión política y una cuestión técnica al ...
    • Econometric Methods for Causal Evaluation of Education Policies and Practices : A Non-Technical Guide 

      Schlotter, Martin; Schwerdt, Guido; Woessmann, Ludger (University of Bonn. Institute for the Study of Labor, 2010-01)
      Education policy-makers and practitioners want to know which policies and practices can best achieve their goals. But research that can inform evidence-based policy often requires complex methods to distinguish causation ...
    • Factores de riesgo en el bajo desempeño académico y desigualdad social en el Perú según PISA 2012 

      Muelle, Luis (Universidad del Pacífico, 2016)
      El estudio utiliza un modelo logístico multinivel aplicado a los resultados obtenidos por los alumnos peruanos en la ronda PISA 2012 para analizar los factores asociados al riesgo de bajo desempeño académico respecto al ...
    • Information, knowledge and behavior : evaluating alternative methods of delivering school information to parents 

      Cerdan-Infantes, Pedro; Filmer, Deon P. (The World Bank, 2015-04)
      Improving education outcomes by disseminating information to parents and thereby encouraging them to become more actively engaged in school oversight is attractive, since it can be done relatively cheaply. This study ...
    • Los límites de la economía de la educación : abrir la mirada 

      Álvarez Gallego, Alejandro (Universidad Pedagógica Nacional de Colombia, 2014)
      El artículo hace un cuestionamiento a la manera como los economistas autores del estudio Tras la excelencia docente, a nombre de la Fundación Compartir, abordan el problema de la educación en Colombia, y a la propuesta de ...
    • School Resources and Educational Outcomes In Developing Countries : A Review of The Literature from 1990 To 2010 

      Glewwe, Paul W.; Hanushek, Eric A.; Humpage, Sarah D.; Ravina, Renato (National Bureau of Economic Research, 2011-10)
      Developing countries spend hundreds of billions of dollars each year on schools, educational materials and teachers, but relatively little is known about how effective these expenditures are at increasing students’ years ...
    • Sistema educativo peruano : balance y agenda pendiente 

      Jopen, Guillermo; Gómez, Walter; Olivera, Herbert (PUCP, 2014-09)
      Actualmente, en la literatura internacional sobre educación existe una tendencia a considerar un enfoque interdisciplinario en el que la Economía de la Educación se apoya en especialidades como la sociología, antropología, ...