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  • Earnings and education in Brazil : evidence from the 1980 census (Inglés)

    The paper uses data from the most recent Brazilian Census to investigate how the returns to investment in education have changed during a period of rapid education expansion, and how alternative labor...

    Tipo de documento: Documento de trabajo (Serie Numerada) Número del informe: EDT90 Fecha del documento: 30 de junio de 1987 Tipo de divulgación: Autor: Psacharopoulos,George

  • Are teachers overpaid? Some evidence from Brazil (Inglés)

    This paper uses data from the 1980 Brazilian census to investigate the issue on whether teachers are overpaid. Earnings standardization for human capital and other worker characterisitcs shows that primary...

    Tipo de documento: Documento de trabajo (Serie Numerada) Número del informe: EDT95 Fecha del documento: 30 de junio de 1987 Tipo de divulgación: Autor: Psacharopoulos,George

  • The specification of earnings functions : tests and implications (Inglés)

    Many studies of the returns to education have relied on the Mincerian specification for the earnings function. This study uses data from a random sample of adult male workers of the 1980 Brazilian census...

    Tipo de documento: Documento de trabajo (Serie Numerada) Número del informe: EDT100 Fecha del documento: 30 de junio de 1987 Tipo de divulgación: Autor: Dougherty, C. R. S.,Jimenez,Emmanuel Y.


  • School participation, grade attainment and literacy in Brazil : a 1980 census analysis (Inglés)

    This study uses data from the 1980 Brazilian Census to analyze the determinants of school participation, grade attainment and literacy among 24,000 children aged 7-14. Regional and household resources...

    Tipo de documento: Documento de trabajo (Serie Numerada) Número del informe: EDT86 Fecha del documento: 30 de junio de 1987 Tipo de divulgación: Autor: Psacharopoulos,George,Arriagada,Ana-Maria


  • Public policies toward private education (Inglés)

    This paper surveys the wide range of public policies toward private education that are found in a sample of 35 developed and developing countries. Private schools in developing countries tend to be less...

    Tipo de documento: Documento de trabajo (Serie Numerada) Número del informe: EDT84 Fecha del documento: 30 de junio de 1987 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: James,Estelle

  • Education and the labor market in Venezuela, 1975-1984 (Inglés)

    This paper examines a number of education-related aspects of Venezuela's labor market in the 1975-84 period using a sample of 40,000 workers from the National Household Survey. The findings indicate that...

    Tipo de documento: Documento de trabajo (Serie Numerada) Número del informe: EDT93 Fecha del documento: 30 de junio de 1987 Tipo de divulgación: Autor: Psacharopoulos,George,Steier,Francis A.


  • Foreign debt and domestic spending : an international comparison (Inglés)

    One possible side effect of foreign debt accumulation is that affected countries may be forced to lower the share of public spending devoted to investment in physical or human capital. The paper investigates...

    Tipo de documento: Documento de trabajo (Serie Numerada) Número del informe: EDT91 Fecha del documento: 30 de junio de 1987 Tipo de divulgación: Autor: Psacharopoulos, George,Steier, Francis

  • Time trends of the returns to education cross-national evidence (Inglés)

    The paper presents evidence on the over-time behavior of the rate of return to investment in education in a large number of countries. The emerging pattern is one of declining returns through time, a fact...

    Tipo de documento: Documento de trabajo (Serie Numerada) Número del informe: EDT94 Fecha del documento: 30 de junio de 1987 Tipo de divulgación: Autor: Psacharopoulos,George

  • Critical issues in education : a world agenda (Inglés)

    The paper gives a summary of what is known on the contribution of education in the development process and discusses what could be done to address a number of critical issues in this area. They are: (i)...

    Tipo de documento: Documento de trabajo (Serie Numerada) Número del informe: EDT96 Fecha del documento: 30 de junio de 1987 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Psacharopoulos,George


  • Establishing student loans in developing countries : some guidelines (Inglés)

    This is a practical guide addressed to the policy maker in a developing country who contemplates the introduction of a student loan scheme. The paper considers the choices available in this respect and...

    Tipo de documento: Documento de trabajo (Serie Numerada) Número del informe: EDT85 Fecha del documento: 30 de junio de 1987 Tipo de divulgación: Autor: Woodhall,Maureen A.

  • Planning and mobilization of financial resources for education in the Middle East (Inglés)

    A prominent concern of most governments today is how to provide quality education to increasing numbers of people, when financial resources are shrinking. In the Middle East, present educational needs...

    Tipo de documento: Documento de trabajo (Serie Numerada) Número del informe: EDT92 Fecha del documento: 30 de junio de 1987 Tipo de divulgación: Autor: Haddad,Wadi D,Demsky Horn,Terri L.

  • School and classroom effects on student learning gain : the case of Thailand (Inglés)

    This paper employs a fixed-effects regression analysis to examine school effects on individual student learning gain during grade eight in 99 lower-secondary schools in Thailand. Schools accounted for...

    Tipo de documento: Documento de trabajo (Serie Numerada) Número del informe: EDT98 Fecha del documento: 30 de junio de 1987 Tipo de divulgación: Autor: Lockheed,Marlaine E.

  • Case studies on selected problems in the economics of education in developing countries (Inglés)

    These case studies were developed as teaching materials to explain simple analysis techniques for eight problems in the economics of education in developing countries. Each study is self-standing, but...

    Tipo de documento: Documento de trabajo (Serie Numerada) Número del informe: EDT87 Fecha del documento: 30 de junio de 1987 Tipo de divulgación: Autor: Mingat,Alain Jean Louis,Tan,Jee-Peng


  • The political economy of private education in developed and developing countries (Inglés)

    This paper examines the private - public division of responsibility for education across countries at different levels of economic development. The evidence suggests that in most developing countries private...

    Tipo de documento: Documento de trabajo (Serie Numerada) Número del informe: EDT81 Fecha del documento: 31 de mayo de 1987 Tipo de divulgación: Autor: James,Estelle

  • The political economy of private education in developed and developing countries (Inglés)

    This paper examines the private - public division of responsibility for education across countries at different levels of economic development. The evidence suggests that in most developing countries private...

    Tipo de documento: Documento de trabajo (Serie Numerada) Número del informe: EDT71 Fecha del documento: 31 de mayo de 1987 Tipo de divulgación: Autor: James,Estelle