The Coronavirus 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic poses a challenge for Ethiopia’s ambitious industrialization agenda focused on export-oriented light manufacturing. This note summarizes results from a survey of...
Empirical studies of the relationship between school inputs and test scores typically do not account for household responses to changes in school inputs. Evidence from India and Zambia shows that student...
Empirical studies of the relationship between school inputs and test scores typically do not account for the fact that households will respond to changes in school inputs. This paper presents a dynamic...
A large literature examines the link between shocks to households and the educational attainment of children. The authors use new data to estimate the impact of shocks to teachers on student learning in...
学校投入和教育结果之间的关系对教育政策至关重要。Das,Dercon,Habyarimana和Krishnan认识到家庭对学校投入的变化会作出最佳反应,并研究了这种反应对学校投入和学习成绩之间联系的影响。为了结合考虑家庭的前瞻性行为,作者提出了一个家庭优化模型,把家庭资源和学习成绩与学校的投入联系起来。在该框架内,如果家庭和学校的投入在生产函数中是学习成绩的技术替代,那么未预见到的投入影响就会超过预见到的投入影响。作者用赞比亚的独特数据集,测试了该模型对学校非工资性现金赠款的预测。他们发现,家庭教育支出和学校的现金赠款可以相互替代,其弹性系数位于-0.35和–0.52之间。与优化模型一致的是,预见到的资金...
This report presents findings from a survey of 182 primary (grades 1-7) and basic (grades 1-9) schools carried out in Zambia in 2002. It describes and analyzes resource flows to these schools from three...