This paper focuses on the impact that two different types of policy interventions, namely enhancing school quality and contingent cash transfers , have on child labour and school attendance in Mexico. While there are many studies on the impact of Oportunidades on schooling outcomes, little...

The gender gap measured by average number of years of schooling for the Brazilian population had favored the male population up to the 1980 Census. In 1991, though it was reversed and women averaged .26 year more of schooling than their male counterparts. These aggregated statistics fudge...

Spanish Abstract: La Universidad de La Salle ha acogido la necesidad de integrar las TIC en sus procesos de investigación, enseñanza-aprendizaje y evaluación a partir del proyecto “LaSallehum@nísTICa”. Integrar las TIC como instrumento de humanización significa, para el enfoque...

Spanish Abstract: El presente artículo revisa los contextos en cuales se ha utilizado el término calidad y cómo éste se ha vinculado a la educación, además expone el problema de la calidad de la educación en cuanto a su base conceptual y cómo aquello repercute en términos prácticos....

This paper analyses the hypothesis under which the improvement on the educational level in the last few decades has also increased the velocity of income convergence for the Brazilian Regions. The originality of this paper, associated with its microrregional delimitation, contributes to a...

We use a database generated by a policy intervention that incentivized learning as measured by standardized exams to investigate empirically the relationship between cheating by students and cash incentives to students and teachers. We adapt methods from the education measurement literature to...

There is an urgent need to reform the educational system to achieve universal primary education in Papua New Guinea (PNG). Even after 35 years of Independence, PNG has been struggling to educate an estimated 2 million elementary and primary aged children and faces numerous challenges in...

Using a student evaluation of teaching instrument, students were given the opportunity to evaluate instructors at the beginning and end of the semester. Previous research suggests that end of semester evaluations reflect initial expectations formed at the beginning of the course or even prior to...