School Attendance and Student Achievement: Evidence from Rural Honduras

Bedi, Arjun S.; Marshall, Jeffery H.

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“…It is well-known that improving education can have a beneficial effect on an economy in terms of higher productivity, lower poverty, improved income inequality, better health and economic growth (Bedi & Marshall 1999). Thus getting more from the resources spent on education in Kuwait is vital in the context of the country's development.…”

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The efficiency of public schools: the case of Kuwait

Burney

Johnes

Alenezi

et al. 2013

Education Economics

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This paper investigates the technical, allocative and economic efficiency of public schools in Kuwait over four levels of schooling (kindergartens, primary, intermediate and secondary) and two periods (1999/00 and 2004/05) using data envelopment analysis (DEA). Mean pure technical efficiency varies between 0.695 and 0.852 across all levels of education; the majority of schools at kindergarten, primary and intermediate levels are operating at a point where returns to scale are increasing; and there are considerable cost efficiencies to be gained. In a second stage analysis of the determinants of efficiency, teacher salary and the proportion of teaching staff who are Kuwaiti are highly significant in explaining school efficiency at all levels. The former has a positive effect and the latter a negative effect. Allgirls schools have significantly higher efficiency than all-boys schools. There is limited evidence that geographical location affects efficiency, and this may be a consequence of differences between regions in terms of affluence or density of population.

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The efficiency of public schools: the case of Kuwait

Burney

Johnes

Alenezi

et al. 2013

Education Economics

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“…This general finding can be attributed to large differences in educational quality caused by the rapid expansion of the school systems of developing countries in the second half of the 20 th century, which was accompanied by increasing resource constraints. (BEDI;MARSHALL, 1999;RIDDELL, 1989, p. 185) As a result, resource input factors vary largely within school effectiveness in primary schools: the role of school climate and composition characteristics 301 and between developing nations. School research in developing countries long focused on the impact of input characteristics like teacher salary or class size.…”

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Avaliação educacional: desatando e reatando nós

Lordêlo¹,

Dazzani²

2009

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A avaliação do contexto da instituição educacional pode ser vista de vários ângulos, desde o ponto de vista estritamente didático e das estratégias de avaliação da aprendizagem escolar até questões epistemológicas, sociais e políticas que estão implicadas na instituição educacional e em outras instituições que envolvem relações de saber-poder. Esse livro expressa um explícito compromisso com a qualidade e democratização da educação e praticando um diálogo que envolve muitas vozes. Esse compromisso será compartilhado com o leitor, especialista ou não.

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“…The rationale is that the household opts for child labor (instead of investing in education) if its income level is low. However, if children's education is "subsidized" through an income transfer or higher wages, households may decide to send their children to school (Neri and Thomas, 2001;Filmer and Prichett, 1998;Bedi and Marshall, 1999;and Handa, 1996). In Brazil, Cardoso and Souza (2004) find that income transfer programs had a positive and significant impact on school attendance; however they do not find a statistically significant reduction on the incidence of child labor.…”

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How Much are We Willing to Pay to Send Poor Adolescents to School? Simulating Changes to Mexico's Oportunidades in Urban Areas

2009

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Standard-Nutzungsbedingungen:Die Dokumente auf EconStor dürfen zu eigenen wissenschaftlichen Zwecken und zum Privatgebrauch gespeichert und kopiert werden.Sie dürfen die Dokumente nicht für öffentliche oder kommerzielle Zwecke vervielfältigen, öffentlich ausstellen, öffentlich zugänglich machen, vertreiben oder anderweitig nutzen.Sofern die Verfasser die Dokumente unter Open-Content-Lizenzen (insbesondere CC-Lizenzen) zur Verfügung gestellt haben sollten, gelten abweichend von diesen Nutzungsbedingungen die in der dort genannten Lizenz gewährten Nutzungsrechte. The views and interpretations in this document are those of the authors and should not be attributed to the Inter-American Development Bank, or to any individual acting on its behalf. This paper may be freely reproduced provided credit is given to the Research Department, InterAmerican Development Bank. Terms of use: Documents inThe Research Department (RES) produces a quarterly newsletter, IDEA (Ideas for Development in the Americas), as well as working papers and books on diverse economic issues. To obtain a complete list of RES publications, and read or download them please visit our web site at: http://www.iadb.org/res. 2 Abstract * Although Mexico's Conditional Cash Transfer Program Oportunidades has increased overall school enrollment, many adolescents do not attend school, especially in urban areas. This paper simulates the effects of changes in program design using a simple parametric method based on a simultaneous probability model of school attendance and child labor. The paper also provides alternative non parametric simulation results by extending Todd and Wolpin's (2006) method to incorporate changes in working hours when attending school. The results indicate that eliminating or reducing school subsidies for primary education and increasing transfer for older students is a cost-effective way to raise overall school enrollment in urban areas. Increasing school attendance of 16-year-olds to 80 percent or more, however, would require a quadrupling of scholarships. This suggests that complementary interventions are needed.JEL Classification: I20; J22

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School Attendance and Student Achievement: Evidence from Rural Honduras

Cited by 50 publications

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The efficiency of public schools: the case of Kuwait

The efficiency of public schools: the case of Kuwait

Avaliação educacional: desatando e reatando nós

How Much are We Willing to Pay to Send Poor Adolescents to School? Simulating Changes to Mexico's Oportunidades in Urban Areas

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