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- Introduction
- Background
- Economic analysis of education
- Trends in education outcomes, 1990 to 2015
- Low levels of learning in developing countries
- Primary gross enrollment rate
- Primary completion rate
- Secondary gross enrollment rate
- Mean age 15 math scores in 2012 (PISA)
- Mean age 15 reading scores in 2012 (PISA)
- What education policies “work”?
- Results for dividing of policies
- Time in school of demand side interventions
- Test scores of demand side interventions
- Time in school of school inputs
- Test scores of school inputs
- Time in school of pedagogy interventions
- Test scores of pedagogy interventions
- Time in school of governance interventions
- Test scores of governance interventions
- Interpreting the evidence & implications
- Interventions successful at increasing test scores
- Some caveats/elaboration on the above findings
- Five reasons why a policy “does not work”
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Topics Covered
- Economic analysis of education
- Public/Private costs and benefits
- Trends in education
- Big increases in enrollment
- Low learning outcomes in developing countries
- Policies that increase time in school
- Policies that increase student learning
- Why a policy “does/does not work”
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Glewwe, P. (2016, September 30). Education in developing countries: issues, trends, and assessment of policies [Video file]. In The Business & Management Collection, Henry Stewart Talks. Retrieved August 31, 2024, from https://doi.org/10.69645/KPRP8008.Export Citation (RIS)
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Other Talks in the Series: Development Economics
Transcript
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0:00
Hello, my name is Paul Glewwe.
I'm a professor in the Department
of Applied Economics
at the University of Minnesota.
And I'm going to give a talk
on education in developing countries.
0:12
So education has sort of a dual role
in economic development.
First, it is an objective
in its own right,
people want to be educated
and they want their children
to be educated,
but it is also a means
for attaining other objectives
because educated people
usually have higher incomes,
they have better health,
there are other things that education
helps people to accomplish.
There are many ways to obtain education,
the most common way
is by formal schooling
but you can also get education
outside of school
and learning on the job
and things like that.
That's sort of from a microeconomic
perspective.
From a macroeconomic perspective,
education is thought to be a key
determinant of economic growth,
although this is very hard
to prove in a very rigorous way.
Another reason education is important
is how much money
is spent on education.
We have good data
on government spending,
and in developing countries alone,
not even counting developed countries,
but developing countries alone,
about $1 trillion is spent
on education per year.
This is at, you know, primary education,
secondary education,
post-secondary education.
In addition, parents spend
a lot of their own money
on schooling for their kids.
And college age people
or university age people
spend their own money on education.
So a lot of money is spent.
But we don't have as good a data
on how much the parents or the students
are spending on their education.
And so the basic purpose of this talk
is to discuss, well,
what are we getting for this money,
both in terms of kids going to school
and kids learning
while they're in school.
So that's what I'll be talking about.
And the first thing to point out,
and I'll show you a slide in a second,
is that there have been
very large increases
in school enrollment and attainment
in terms of years of schooling
in developing countries
since 1960, which is a good news.
On the other hand, the bad news
is that there's a lot of evidence
that schools are not very effective
in terms of kids learning a lot
when they're in school.
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