Documentos e informes
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Lost Wages : The COVID-19 Cost of School Closures (Inglés)
Social distancing requirements associated with COVID-19 have led to school closures. In April, 192 countries had closed all schools and universities, affecting more than 90 percent of the world's learners:...
Tipo de documento: Documento de trabajo sobre investigaciones relativas a políticas Número del informe: WPS9246 Fecha del documento: 14 de mayo de 2020 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Psacharopoulos,George,Collis,Victoria,Patrinos,Harry Anthony,Vegas,Emiliana
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Returns to Investment in Education : The Case of Turkey (Inglés)
This paper estimates private and social returns to investment in education in Turkey, using the 2017 Household Labor Force Survey and alternative methodologies. The analysis uses the 1997 education reform...
Tipo de documento: Documento de trabajo sobre investigaciones relativas a políticas Número del informe: WPS8789 Fecha del documento: 21 de marzo de 2019 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Patrinos,Harry Anthony,Psacharopoulos,George,Tansel,Aysit
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Returns to investment in education : a decennial review of the global literature (Inglés)
Returns to investment in education based on human capital theory have been estimated systematically since the 1950s. In the 60-plus year history of such estimates, there have been several compilations...
Tipo de documento: Documento de trabajo sobre investigaciones relativas a políticas Número del informe: WPS8402 Fecha del documento: 11 de abril de 2018 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Psacharopoulos,George,Patrinos,Harry Anthony
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Education : past, present and future global challenges (Inglés)
Progress in educational development in the world since 1900 has been slow and uneven between countries. Providing basic education for all children in developing countries has been and remains an unmet...
Tipo de documento: Documento de trabajo sobre investigaciones relativas a políticas Número del informe: WPS5616 Fecha del documento: 1 de marzo de 2011 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Patrinos,Harry Anthony,Psacharopoulos,George
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Indigenous people and poverty in Latin America : an empirical analysis (Español)
Indigenous people make up a large and distinct portion of Latin America's population. While the incidence of poverty is high in Latin America, it is particularly severe and deep among the indigenous population...
Tipo de documento: Publicación Número del informe: 13551 Fecha del documento: 1 de noviembre de 1998 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Psacharopoulos,George,Patrinos,Harry Anthony
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Poverty and income distribution in Latin America : the story of the 1980s (Inglés)
This report presents the findings of a regional study on poverty and income distribution in Latin America and the Caribbean. The study was undertaken because of the significance of these issues and the...
Tipo de documento: Publicación Número del informe: WTP351 Fecha del documento: 30 de abril de 1997 Autor: Psacharopoulos,George,Morley,Samuel A.,Fiszbein,Ariel,Lee,Haeduck,Wood, Bill
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The role of government and the private sector in fighting poverty (Inglés)
This report examines the relative roles of the private and public sectors in implementing a two-track strategy to reduce poverty. This strategy aims for sustaining broad-based economic growth that makes...
Tipo de documento: Publicación Número del informe: WTP346 Fecha del documento: 31 de marzo de 1997 Autor: Psacharopoulos,George,Nguyen Xuan Nguyen
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Human capital underdevelopment : the worst aspects (Inglés)
The purpose of this report is to bring to the surface some of the worst aspects of human capital underdevelopment, by disaggregating to the extent possible the relevant indicators, thereby hopefully sensitizing...
Tipo de documento: Documento de trabajo sobre el capital humano Número del informe: 16129 Fecha del documento: 30 de noviembre de 1996 Autor: Psacharopoulos,George
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The profitability of investment in education : concepts and methods (Inglés)
This paper reviews the basic concept of the profitability of investment in education and enumerates the various techniques that have been used in the literature to estimate the rate of return to investment...
Tipo de documento: Documento de trabajo sobre el capital humano Número del informe: 15280 Fecha del documento: 30 de noviembre de 1995 Autor: Psacharopoulos,George
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Building human capital for better lives (Inglés)
The key words in today's development economics are human capital. More and more emphasis is being placed on investments in education, health, and nutrition as a means of bettering the lives of people in...
Tipo de documento: Publicación Número del informe: 14883 Fecha del documento: 31 de julio de 1995 Autor: Psacharopoulos,George
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Indigenous people and poverty in Latin America : an empirical analysis (Inglés)
Indigenous people make up a large and distinct portion of Latin America's population. While the incidence of poverty is high in Latin America, it is particularly severe and deep among the indigenous population...
Tipo de documento: Publicación Número del informe: 13551 Fecha del documento: 30 de septiembre de 1994 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Psacharopoulos,George,Patrinos,Harry Anthony
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Indigenous people and poverty in Latin America (Inglés)
The indigenous people of Latin America live in conditions of extreme poverty. While this may be common knowledge, this paper represents an initial attempt at documenting the socioeconomic conditions of...
Tipo de documento: Documento de trabajo sobre el capital humano Número del informe: 12734 Fecha del documento: 28 de febrero de 1994 Autor: Psacharopoulos,George,Patrinos,Harry Anthony
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Operational education indicators (Inglés)
The focus of analytical work in the field of education has changed over the years. The scope has expanded to include complementary fields such as psychology, sociology, anthropology and political science...
Tipo de documento: Documento de trabajo sobre el capital humano Número del informe: 12524 Fecha del documento: 30 de septiembre de 1993 Autor: Psacharopoulos,George
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Returns to investment in education : a global update (Inglés)
The author updates compilations of rate of return estimates to investment in education published since 1985 - and discusses methodological issues surrounding those estimates. Some key patterns: among the...
Tipo de documento: Documento de trabajo sobre investigaciones relativas a políticas Número del informe: WPS1067 Fecha del documento: 31 de enero de 1993 Autor: Psacharopoulos,George
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Socioeconomic and ethnic determinants of grade repetition in Bolivia and Guatemala (Inglés)
After reviewing the literature on repetition (students repeating grades in schools) in developing countries, the authors examine factors related to repetition in Bolivia and Guatemala. They develop a model...
Tipo de documento: Documento de trabajo sobre investigaciones relativas a políticas Número del informe: WPS1028 Fecha del documento: 30 de noviembre de 1992 Autor: Patrinos,Harry Anthony,Psacharopoulos,George
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Case studies on women's employment and pay in Latin America (Inglés)
Women's role in economic development can be examined from many different perspectives, including the feminist, anthropological, sociological, economic and legislative. This study employs an economic perspective...
Tipo de documento: Publicación Número del informe: 12175 Fecha del documento: 30 de noviembre de 1992 Autor: Psacharopoulos,George,Tzannatos,Panagiotis Zafiris
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Ethnicity, education, and earnings in Bolivia and Guatemala (Inglés)
Indigenous groups are often associated with poverty and so are low levels of education. Guatemala and Bolivia are the two Latin American countries in which the ethnic part of the population is proportionately...
Tipo de documento: Documento de trabajo sobre investigaciones relativas a políticas Número del informe: WPS1014 Fecha del documento: 30 de noviembre de 1992 Autor: Psacharopoulos,George
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Education and the labor market in Uruguay (Inglés)
This paper uses data from the 1989 Uruguayan Household Survey to investigate the relationship between earnings and education in that country. Mincerian earnings functions fitted to nearly 10,000 workers...
Tipo de documento: Documento de trabajo (Serie Numerada) Número del informe: 19740 Fecha del documento: 30 de junio de 1992 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Psacharopoulos,George,Velez Bustillo,Eduardo Miguel
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Achievement evaluation of Colombia's Escuela Nueva : is multigrade the answer? (Inglés)
In the mid 1980s, half of Colombia's rural schools did not offer complete primary education and more than half of rural children between the ages of 7 and 9 had never attended school. Unitary schools -...
Tipo de documento: Documento de trabajo sobre investigaciones relativas a políticas Número del informe: WPS896 Fecha del documento: 30 de abril de 1992 Autor: Psacharopoulos,George,Rojas,Carlos A.,Velez, Eduardo
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A cost benefit analysis of educational investment in Venezuela, 1989 (Inglés)
The paper examines data from the 1989 Venezuelan household survey, to assess macro priorities among educational investments in the country, and indicates that when analyzing earnings by educational level...
Tipo de documento: Documento de trabajo (Serie Numerada) Número del informe: 19738 Fecha del documento: 30 de noviembre de 1991 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Fiszbein,Ariel,Psacharopoulos,George