Venezuela from instrumental variables based on a supply-side intervention in the education market. These estimates apply to a … education reform (the Organic Law of Education) which provided for nine years of compulsory basic education. They also obtain … alternative estimates using father's education as an instrument, in an attempt to derive high and low estimates of returns to …

This book aims to contribute to the World Bank's education agenda by communicating research findings on the impact of … education quality on economic growth. Eric Hanushek and Ludger Wößmann show that indeed the quality of education, rather than … mere access to education, is what impacts economic growth. These world-renowned researchers use data on economic growth and …

education policy literature. This study seeks to identify the good policies and practices that lead students in some municipal …The importance of education to the socioeconomic and political development of nations is widely discussed in the … education policy factors that appeared to help some municipal school systems obtain better-than-expected Prova Brasil results …

Policymakers and development experts seeking to improve the quality of education are interested in the role technology … can play. Not only do they want to use technology to directly aid learning, but they also want to ensure that students in … developing countries - and poor communities everywhere - get the same exposure, and same education benefit, from technology as do …

experience, a government program supported by the World Bank's Cambodia education sector support project was launched in such a …

system; monitoring trends in education quality over time; supporting educators and students with real-time information to …In 2009, Zambia joined the Russia Education Aid for Development (READ) trust fund program, the goal of which is to help … Better Education Results (SABER) program. SABER is an evidence-based program to help countries systematically examine and …