In the 1980s and 1990s, as part of a global transformation, Latin American countries suffered economic crisis and then underwent economic transformation and political democratization. Educational systems also changed in the larger economies, basic education became largely universal.Abstract:...

Estimates of the rate of return to schooling, by level, have now been made for four Latin American countries: Chile, Colombia, Mexico, and Venezuela. The article presents a summary of the author's own results for Mexico and compares these results with the rates derived for the other three...

Migration is an investment that man makes in himself, and it is possible to estimate the rate of return to that investment, at least in part, by measuring income differentials of migrants due to moving from one location to another. This study estimates pecuniary rates of return to migrants...

Discusses the impact of structural adjustment measures on the quality and financing of education.

This book is based on a conference entitled "Regional Public Goods and Regional Development Assistance", held in Washington, D.C. on November 6-7, 2002. It examines how the IDB and the ADB support the provision of regional public goods (RPGs) in Latin America and Asia, respectively. RPGs are...

In this paper, we examine the relative academic effectiveness of vocational education in three countries with early tracking systems: Austria, Croatia and Hungary. Our measures of academic effectiveness are the results of an international test, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and...

We use a national Brazilian test (SAEB) and an international test (PISA) to measure whether Brazilian students 13-15 years old improved their mathematics and language learning in1995-2012. We control for part of out-of-school influences by comparing test scores for students with similar family...