Education, economics and public policy

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”

Schooling in China increased from 1.5 years in 1950 to more than 7.5 years in 2010 according to Barro-Lee (http://www.barrolee.com/).  The returns to schooling increased from only 4% in 1985 to 16% in 2002 (https://ideas.repec.org/p/wbk/wbrwps/7020.html).

Inclusion, Diversity & Development and Indigenous Peoples World Bank HeadQuarters April 21, 2015 10-11:30

Returns to Education.

http://blogs.worldbank.org/education/disability-and-education-charity-investment Today, on World Autism Day, I’d like to highlight the impact of education on what persons with disabilities are capable of achieving. More than one billion people – 15% of the world’s population – experience some form of disability. One-fifth of the estimated global total, up to 190 million people, encounter significant disabilities. PersonsContinue reading “Disability and Education: From Charity to Investment”

Education for all: the private sector can contribute From: Private Sector and Development By Oni Lusk-Stover, Operations Officer, Education Human Development Network, The World Bankand Harry Anthony Patrinos,Manager, Education Human Development Network, The World Bank ¹ Education is a human right, which states have the responsibility to ensure. But they need not be the sole provider.Continue reading “Education for all: the private sector can contribute”