Inter-household transfers are an important resource for low-income households, yet have been almost ignored by donors. Though they are no substitute for public programs, these private transfers merit more...
Inter-household transfers are an important resource for low-income households, yet have been almost ignored by donors. Though they are no substitute for public programs, these private transfers merit more...
Inter-household transfers are an important resource for low-income households, yet have been almost ignored by donors. Though they are no substitute for public programs, these private transfers merit more...
The benefits of compensatory bilingual education for a disadvantaged, poor indigenous population as an investment in human capital is significant. Students of bilingual schools in Guatemala have higher...
The objective of this paper is to increase the knowledge of the critical factors affecting the quality of primary education in Latin America by reviewing the existing Latin American literature on what...
This paper aims at assessing what determines academic achievement upon completion of primary school in Mexico, be it family, or, school characteristics, among different students. The ability variable...
In the mid 1980s, half of Colombia's rural schools did not offer complete primary education and more than half of rural children between the ages of 7 and 9 had never attended school. Unitary schools -...
The objective of national education assessment systems is to evaluate the progress of school systems in achieving curricular or other goals of the education system and to identify problem areas in curriculum...
The Escuela Nueva program in Colombia is widely recognized as a successful model of educational delivery where the objective is to improve the quality of schooling. Escuela Nueva seeks to introduce innovation...
A major debate in the economics of education is the extent to which observed earnings differentials between more and less educated workers reflect differences in productivity. This study focuses on the...
The paper provides empirical evidence on the most commonly used argument for diversifying the secondary school curriculum in developing countries, i.e., the hope that it would provide a closer fit between...