Documents et rapports
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Class size, school size and the school network (anglais)
In many transition countries, including Ukraine, decreases in population and fertility have led to substantial falls in the number of school-aged children. As a consequence, these countries now have school...
Type de document: Article de revue Numéro du rapport: 100255 Date du document: 16 mars 2015 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Coupe,Tom,Olefir,Anna,Alonso,Juan Diego
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Returns to education in Sri Lanka : a pseudo-panel approach (anglais)
This study employs a pseudo-panel approach to estimate the returns to education among income earners in Sri Lanka. Pseudo-panel data are constructed from nine repeated cross-sections of Sri Lanka's labor...
Type de document: Article de revue Numéro du rapport: 94658 Date du document: 30 janvier 2015 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Aturupane,Harsha,Salih Himaz,Fathima Rozana
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Training funds and the incidence of training : the case of Mauritius (anglais)
Training funds are used to incentivize training in developing countries, but the funds are based on payroll taxes that lower the return to training. In the absence of training funds, larger, high-wage...
Type de document: Article de revue Numéro du rapport: 100252 Date du document: 1 janvier 2015 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Kuku, Oluyemisi,Orazem, Peter F.,Rojid,Sawkut
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Adult literacy, heterogeneity and returns to schooling in Chile (anglais)
The author examines the importance of adult functional literacy skills for individuals using a quantile regression methodology. The inclusion of the direct measure of basic skills reduces the return to...
Type de document: Article de revue Numéro du rapport: 82807 Date du document: 1 janvier 2013 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Patrinos,Harry Anthony,Sakellariou,Chris
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Private education provision and public finance : the Netherlands (anglais)
One of the key features of the Dutch education system is freedom of education, freedom to establish schools and organize teaching. Almost 70 percent of schools in the Netherlands are administered by private...
Type de document: Article de revue Numéro du rapport: 79000 Date du document: 1 janvier 2013 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Patrinos,Harry Anthony
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Contract teachers in India (anglais)
In this paper the author use non-experimental data from government schools in Uttar Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh, two of the largest Indian states, to present average school outcomes by contract status of...
Type de document: Article de revue Numéro du rapport: 78995 Date du document: 1 janvier 2013 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Goyal,Sangeeta,Pandey,Priyanka
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The impact of school quality, socio-economic factors and child health on students academic performance : evidence from Sri Lankan primary schools (anglais)
One of the eight Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) is that all children in developing countries should complete primary education. Much progress has been made toward this goal, but completing primary...
Type de document: Article de revue Numéro du rapport: 78991 Date du document: 1 janvier 2013 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Aturupane,Harsha,Glewwe,Paul W.,Wisniewski,Suzanne L. W.