Documentos e informes

Are You Thinking About School Grants? Some Questions to Consider (Inglés)

Guidance on designing and implementing school grants (both uncondition al and conditional) is crucial. This note, while not a comprehensive guide on school grants, contains a small subset of practical...

COVID-19, School Closures, and Student Learning Outcomes : New Global Evidence from PISA (Inglés)

The COVID-19 pandemic resulted in significant disruption in schooling worldwide. This paper uses global test score data to estimate learning losses. It models the effect of school closures on achievement...

Rule-Based Civil Service : Evidence from a Nationwide Teacher Reform in Mexico (Inglés)

This paper studies the effect of a civil service reform on the skills profile of new teachers in Mexico. The reform mandated the use of rule-based recruitment over discretionary hiring. The results show...

Towards Higher Education Excellence in Central Asia: A Roadmap for Improving the Quality of Education and Research through Regional Integration (Inglés)

The purpose of this Report is to provide recommendations for addressing common challenges while promoting academic and research excellence in higher education in Central Asia through regional cooperation...

What Can We Learn from Pre-Primary Quality Assurance Systems ? Evidence from the Arab Republic of Egypt (Inglés)

Quality assurance systems have been implemented or are under development in a number of low- and middle-income countries in an effort to observe the quality of education and deploy targeted measures to...

Learning during the Pandemic : Evidence from Uzbekistan (Inglés)

School closures induced by the COVID-19 pandemic led to concerns about student learning. This paper evaluates the effect of school closures on student learning in Uzbekistan, using a unique dataset that...

Human Capital and Climate Change (Inglés)

Addressing climate change requires individual behavior change and voter support for pro-climate policies, yet surprisingly little is known about how to achieve these outcomes. This paper estimates causal...

Quality and Inequality in Pre-Primary and Home Environment Inputs to Early Childhood Development in Egypt (Inglés)

By the time children in low- and middle-income countries start primary school, large socioeconomic disparities are evident in children’s learning and development. Both pre-primary and home environments...

An Analysis of COVID-19 Student Learning Loss (Inglés)

COVID-19 caused significant disruption to the global education system. Early reviews of the first wave of lockdowns and school closures suggested significant learning loss in a few countries. A more recent...

Gender Differences in Economics Course-Taking and Majoring : Findings from an RCT (Inglés)

This paper reports on gender differences in responses to a randomized controlled trial that provided encouragement and information nudges to take subsequent economics courses and major in the subject for...

Re-Kindling Learning : eReaders in Lagos (Inglés)

Empirical literature on digital technologies for student learning is generally unable to identify separately whether learning gains arise from reciprocity in response to the gift of a valuable gadget (the...

Global Dataset on Education Quality : A Review and Update (2000-2017) (Inglés)

This paper presents the most expansive and current cross-country dataset on education quality. The database includes 164 countries/territories covering over 98 percent of the global population from 2000-2017...

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...

Estrategia de Difusión de los Resultados de las Pruebas Estandarizadas del Snepe 2015 a las Instituciones Educativas (Español)

Madagascar - Basic Education Support Project : environmental assessment : Cadre de gestion environnementale et sociale (Francés)

Mexico - Reducing Inequality of Educational Opportunity Project : procurement plan (Español)

Education, jobs and social protection for a sustainable reduction of poverty (Francés)

Nicaragua - Second Support to the Education Sector Project : environmental assessment (Vol. 4 of 4) : Criterios de determinación de elegibilidad para un estudio de pre inversión para obras con fondos PAESE (Español)

Lebanon - Second Education Development Project : procurement plan (Inglés)

Pakistan - Punjab Skills Development Project : procurement plan (Inglés)