Education, economics and public policy

Policy Research Working Paper Series The World Bank Top 25 Working Papers by Total File Downloads, according to REPEC Click on a column heading to sort by a different category Rank Working Paper File Downloads Abstract Views  2015 06  3 months  12 months  Total  2015 06  3 months  12 months  Total 1 Returns to investment in education:Continue reading “Top 25 World Bank Working Papers”

From: The Economist: http://www.economist.com/news/special-report/21646985-american-model-higher-education-spreading-it-good-producing-excellence

Timor-Leste: Starting an education revolution Photo by: Cornelio Quintao De Carvalho / World Bank In a blog, World Bank Senior Director for Education Claudia Costin praised Fernando La Sama de Araujo, the recently deceased Minister of Education of Timor-Leste, for his visionary leadership. Indeed, the Democratic Republic of Timor-Leste should be praised for the progressContinue reading “Timor-Leste: Starting an education revolution”

My presentation at the Sampoerna University TRANSFORMING EDUCATION TOWARDS INDONESIA 2030 : NEW PEDAGOGIES FOR DEEP LEARNINGS Conference, 29-30 May, Universitas Siswa Bangsa Internasional (The Sampoerna Univeristy), Jakarta, Indonesia. (http://www.sampoernauniversity.ac.id/nec-page.html)

Revolusi Data Bisa Bantu Atasi Tantangan Pendidikan From my talk at Sampoerna University, Jakarta, Indonesia, May 29, 2015 covered in Actual.co (http://www.aktual.co/sosial/revolusi-data-bisa-bantu-atasi-tantangan-pendidikan) Minggu, 31-05-2015 06:01 Harry Anthony Patrinos (Foto: Istimewa) Revolusi Data dalam arti akses ke informasi, perubahan aturan pelayanan, dan meningkatnya pengambilan keputusan berbasis bukti (evidence), ketiganya adalah kekuatan-kekuatan yang bisa membantu mengatasi tantangan-tantanganContinue reading “Revolusi Data Bisa Bantu Atasi Tantangan Pendidikan”

Serving the Poor Differently: The Effects of Private and Public Schools on Children’s Academic Achievement in Basic Education in Mexico By German Trevino (2015 Doctoral dissertation, Harvard Graduate School of Education): “Private elementary schools in Mexico are usually seen by wealthy and middle-class families as an alternative to public education. However, private schools have notContinue reading “Serving the Poor Differently: The Effects of Private and Public Schools on Children’s Academic Achievement in Basic Education in Mexico”

The OKR — Open Knowledge Repository — is the World Bank’s flagship publishing portal which contains all Bank research and knowledge, freely available online for anyone to retain, reuse, revise and redistribute.  Take a look at my page at: https://openknowledge.worldbank.org/author-page?author=Patrinos, Harry Anthony which features work such as: Comparable Estimates of Returns to Schooling Around theContinue reading “Open Knowledge Repository”

From NORRAG: https://norrag.wordpress.com/2015/05/19/the-implications-of-changing-private-rates-of-return-to-schooling/ By Harry Anthony Patrinos, World Bank. High returns signal that tertiary education is a good private investment; the public priority, however, isn’t a blanket subsidy for all, but a concerted effort to improve fair, equitable, sustainable cost-recovery at the tertiary level. In addition to being a basic human service, education produces someContinue reading “The Implications of Changing Private Rates of Return to Schooling”

Pakistan’s unusually useful education report card.

ICT和EMIS应用及政策影响研讨会在京举行(组图) May 5, 2015 – 6 May, organized by the Institute of Fiscal Science, Peking University, China Education and the World Bank’s Global Education Practice Board, Chong off the headquarters, “education, technology, finance and policy -ICT and EMIS applications and their policy implications,” Zhongguancun Internet seminar held in association with the Education Innovation Center inContinue reading “SABER ICT and EMIS applications and policy symposium held in Beijing, May 5-6, 2015”