The quality of schooling : the standard focus on quantity alone is misleading (English)

The first of these three papers examines the quality of schooling, paticularly on the misleading focus on quantity alone. It extends the Mincerian framework to incorporate school quality as well as quantity. This extension of the standard approach implies that improving school quality would have a higher payoff than increasing enrollment rates. The second paper investigates the possibility of biases which may arise from aggregating over space to obtain...

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Behrman,Jere R.;

Birdsall,Nancy M.;
Document Date
1983/12/31
Document Type
Journal Article
Report Number
REP311
Volume No
1
Total Volume(s)
1
Country
Brazil,
Region
Latin America and Caribbean,
Disclosure Date
2010/07/12
Disclosure Status
Disclosed
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The quality of schooling : the standard focus on quantity alone is misleading
Keywords
social rate of return

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Behrman,Jere R.; Birdsall,Nancy M..

The quality of schooling : the standard focus on quantity alone is misleading (English). World Bank reprint series ; no. REP 311 Washington, D.C. : The World Bank. http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/329941468226757420

The quality of schooling : the standard focus on quantity alone is misleading (English)

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