Harry Anthony Patrinos, Practice Manager, Education, World Bank Prepared for the 2016 Brookings Blum Roundtable The threat of automation implies a race between education and technology. In most developing countries, education systems are not providing workers with the skills necessary to compete in today’s job markets. The growing mismatch between the demand and supply ofContinue reading “The skills that matter in the race between education and technology”
Roundup of blogs and research – August 11, 2016
Trends in returns to schooling: why governments should invest more in people’s skills One of the biggest economic benefits of schooling are labor market earnings. For many people, education and experience are their only assets. This is why I believe that it’s very important to know the economic benefits of investments in schooling… TheContinue reading “Roundup of blogs and research – August 11, 2016”
Trends in Returns to Schooling: Why Governments Should Invest More in People’s Skills
One of the biggest economic benefits of schooling are labor market earnings. For many people, education and experience are their only assets. This is why I believe that it’s very important to know the economic benefits of investments in schooling. The rate of return equates the value of lifetime earnings to the net presentContinue reading “Trends in Returns to Schooling: Why Governments Should Invest More in People’s Skills”
Roundup of blogs and research – July 28, 2016
Assessing systems for hiring and deploying teachers in the Philippines Over the last decade, research from many different countries has demonstrated the important role played by teachers in improving students’ learning and increasing their competencies. Studies from countries as different as the US and Indonesia have shown the enormous benefits that follow from having adequateContinue reading “Roundup of blogs and research – July 28, 2016”
Shanghai Consensus: A Report on the Global Conference on Equity and Excellence in Basic Education
At the Global Conference on Equity and Excellence in Basic Education, May 17-19, 2016, in Shanghai, China (co-hosted by the World Bank, Shanghai Normal University and the Shanghai Municipal Education Commission), we learned lessons from Shanghai, discussed challenges among participating countries (more than 25), and agreed to collaborate to promote education equity and excellence around the world.
Roundup of blogs and research
Here’s the evidence that low cost reading programs can have a big impact The importance of literacy for economic growth and development is already well established in economic research. Literacy e… Source: Roundup of blogs and research
Roundup of blogs and research
Here’s the evidence that low cost reading programs can have a big impact The importance of literacy for economic growth and development is already well established in economic research. Literacy enables people to access information and improve their productivity. I believe that literacy is crucial to the diffusion of new technologies, especially among the poor.Continue reading “Roundup of blogs and research”
Estimating the return to schooling using the Mincer equation
Published in IZA World of Labor “The Mincer equation gives comparable estimates of the average monetary returns of one additional year of education Elevator pitch The Mincer equation—arguably the most widely used in empirical work—can be used to explain a host of economic, and even non-economic, phenomena. One such application involves explaining (and estimating) employmentContinue reading “Estimating the return to schooling using the Mincer equation”
Here’s the evidence that low cost reading programs can have a big impact
The Early Grade Reading Assessment (EGRA) was applied both before and after the program for both the control and treatment groups. The program’s impact was significant: initial sound identification increased by 0.91 standard deviations, letter sounds knowledge increased by 0.58 standard deviations, while familiar word reading increased by 0.04 standard deviations or an average of 0.51 standard deviations for all three domains.
Returns to higher education around the world
In Steps Forward, Steps Backward: What to Make of the Government’s Plans for Higher Education Market Reform, edited by James Croft and Gabriel Heller Sahlgren of the Centre for the Study of Market Reform of Education, I write about the returns to education, with a focus on the United Kingdom and Europe. I offer analysis of theContinue reading “Returns to higher education around the world”