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View Resource Introducción (sobre la conferencia internacional La calidad de la educación en América Latina y el Caribe)

La Conferencia Interamericana de Seguridad Social (CISS) y la Universidad Iberoamericana (UIA), organizaron de manera conjunta la conferencia internacional “La Calidad de la Educación en América Latina y el Caribe” en febrero de 2007. El principal objetivo de la conferencia fue analizar la calidad de la educación en la región, los factores determinantes del aprendizaje, la evaluación de las...

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View Resource Introduction (about the international conference on "The quality of education in Latin America and the Caribbean")

The Inter-American Conference on Social Security (CISS) and Universidad Iberoamericana (UIA) co-hosted an international conference on "The Quality of Education in Latin America and the Caribbean" in February 2007. The main obj ective of the conference was to examine quality of education in the region, the determinants of learning, policy and program evaluation, and the impact of quality of...

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View Resource Academic performance of public university students in Argentina

Designing educational policies under limited budgets requires a thorough analysis of the impact of alternative factors on student performance. This work aims at providing an analysis of the relationship between university performance and its explanatory factors. The analysis Will focus on the Argentinean case, using the 1994 Census of Students in National Universities, which includes data on all...

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View Resource Assessing Argentina's preparedness for the knowledge economy: measuring student knowledge and skills in reading, mathematical and scientific literacy with evidence from PISA 2000

The results of 2000 study of the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) show that while Argentinean students performed similar to their peers in most other Latin American countries, they lagged behind all OECD and most of other participating countries. Attention needs to be given to further master the reading, math and science skills that are needed for a knowledge economy; and...

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View Resource Conflict and power: the teachers' union and education quality in Mexico

The teachers union in Mexico, or Sindicato Nacional de Trabajadores de la Educación (SNTE) represents over 1 million members and is the largest in Latin America. This study uses data from the national student tests administered by the Instituto Nacional para la Evaluación de la Educación (INEE), along with data from the Mexican Ministry of Education and other sources, to investigate the...

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View Resource Impact of school quality on child labor and school attendance: the case of the CONAFE compensatory education program in Mexico

This paper focuses on the impact that two different types of policy interventions, namely enhancing school quality and contingent cash transfers, have on child labor and school attendance in Mexico. While there are many studies on the impact of Oportunidades on schooling outcomes, little evidence is available on whether school quality programs such as CONAFE also reduce child labor and help keep...

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View Resource Introduction (about the internatinal conference on "The quality of education in Latin America and the Caribbean")

The Inter-American Conference on Social Security (CISS) and Universidad Iberoamericana (UIA) co-hosted an international conference on "The Quality of Education in Latin America and the Caribbean" in February 2007. The conference examined the quality of education in the region, the determinants of learning, policy and program evaluation, and the impact of quality of education on the labor market....

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View Resource Book review. Improving the quality of education in Mexico: Positions and proposals, edited by Francisco Miranda, Harry Patrinos y Ángel López

This book gathers analyses performed by several authors on policies considered appropriate by the World Bank to enhance the quality of basic education provided in Mexico, in particular, education received by majority sectors in our society (World Bank: 2005).

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View Resource "La Nocturna": study of educational choice in Colombia

This study uses data from Colombia’s 2003 Encuesta de Calidad de Vida to examine how well do electricity strata (proxy for socioeconomic status) explain the choice decision for type of institution and session attended. In the model of choice by type – private vs. public universities – I find that as the electricity strata increases, the marginal probability of enrolling in a public university...

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View Resource Exploring the effects of the school levels reform on access and its quality: the Education Federal Law of Argentina

Over the last decade, Argentina embarked on a broad education reform, the Federal Education Law (LFE), being its main objective to expand access to basic education, mainly, by a new organization of the schooling level structure with the extension of mandatory schooling from 7 to 10 years. The provinces reactions were heterogeneous. We try to evaluate the relationship among the LFE and access and...

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View Resource Quality of education in Argentina: determinants and distribution using PISA 2000 test scores

In this paper we study the determinants and distribution of learning outcomes in Argentina I measured by PISA 2000 reading and math test scores. To do that, we estimate education production functions at the mean of the distribution using survey regressions and at different parts of the score 's distribution with quantile regressions. In terms of educational policy aimed at improving learning...

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View Resource Institutional effects as determinants of leaning outcomes: exploring state variations in Mexico

We use the PISA 2003 student-level achievement database for Mexico to estimate state education production functions. Student characteristics, family background, home inputs, resources and institutions are controlled for. We take advantage of the state-level variation and representative sample to analyze the impact of institutional factors such as state accountability systems and the role of...

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View Resource Where did you go to school? Private-public differences in schooling trajectories and their role of earnings

The private provision of educational services has been representing an increasing fraction of the Peruvian schooling system, especially in recent last decades. While there have been many claims about the differences in quality between private and public schools, there is no complete assessment of the different impacts of these two type of providers on the labor markets. This paper is an attempt...

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View Resource Inequality, quality of primary education and development in Latina America and the Caribbean

This paper draws on a political economy model to hypothesize that the quality of education is likely to be lowered by both economic and political inequalities. In particular, we utilize a panel data set across countries and over time to test the applicability of the hypothesis to quality of education indicators at the primary level. Among the four specific indicators of primary education assigned...

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View Resource Polarización económica y gobernabilidad en México

Este ensayo evalúa hipótesis alternativas sobre los orígenes de las recientes rebeliones sociales en México y examina la teoría de que un grave aumento en la pobreza precedió los conflictos. Una consecuencia de lo anterior ha sido que los intentos realizados por el gobierno mexicano para desactivar los factores económicos que, en su opinión, llevaron a los levantamientos sociales no...

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View Resource Las desigualdades, la calidad de la educación primaria y el desarrollo en América Latina y el Caribe

Este estudio recurre a un modelo de economía política para formular la hipótesis de que es probable que la calidad de la educación se vea disminuida por las desigualdades, tanto económicas como políticas. En particular, utilizamos un conjunto de datos de panel sobre todos los países a lo largo del tiempo, para probar si es correcta la hipótesis de la calidad de los indicadores de la calidad de la...

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View Resource Diversidad y equidad: reseña del libro Pueblos indígenas, pobreza y desarrollo humano en América Latina: 1994-2004, editado por Gillette Hall y Harry A. Patrinos

La evolución que han tenido en la última década los indicadores específicos de bienestar entre estas poblaciones indígenas es el tema de este importante libro. El estudio afirma tener cuatro preguntas rectoras, verbigracia: 1. ¿En la última década ¿han aumentado o disminuido los índices de pobreza entre las poblaciones indígenas? ¿Cuáles son los principales factores determinantes de las...

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View Resource Desempeño de los estudiantes de las universidades públicas en Argentina

El diseño de políticas educativas bajo presupuesto limitado requiere un detenido análisis de cómo factores alternativos impactan sobre el desempeño de los estudiantes. El objetivo central de este trabajo consiste en explorar analíticamente la relación entre el desempeño universitario y sus factores explicativos. El análisis se concentrará en el caso argentino, haciendo uso del Censo de...

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View Resource Evaluación de lo preparada que está Argentina para la economía del conocimiento: medición del conocimiento y las habilidades de los alumnos en matemáticas y ciencias con resultados de PISA 2000

Los resultados del estudio del Programa Internacional para la Evaluación de los Alumnos (PISA) correspondiente a 2000 muestran que aunque los alumnos argentinos tuvieron un desempeño similar al de sus semejantes en la mayoría de los otros países latinoamericanos, quedaron detrás de todos los países miembros de la OCDE y de la mayoría de los demás países que participaron. Se requiere dar atención...

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View Resource Conflicto y poder: el sindicato de maestros y la calidad educativa en México

El Sindicato Nacional de Trabajadores de la Educación (SNTE) representa a más de 1 millón de agremiados y es el sindicato más grande de América Latina. Este estudio utiliza datos de las pruebas nacionales aplicadas por el Instituto Nacional para la Evaluación de la Educación (INEE) así como información generada por la Secretaría de Educación Pública y otras fuentes para analizar la relación que...

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