Glewwe The Economics of School Quality Investments in Developing Countries

An Empirical Study of Ghana
Erscheinungsjahr 1999
ISBN: 978-1-349-15032-8
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 373 Seiten, Web PDF

Reihe: Studies on the African Economies Series

This book presents a method to estimate the economic returns to investments in school quality. While economists have long had methods to estimate rates of return to additional years of schooling, until now there has been no method for analyzing returns to investments in school quality. This is regrettable, because many, if not most, government education policies focus on school quality. Empirical work using data from Ghana shows that investments in school quality have higher rates of return than investments in increased years in schooling. The bulk of the study is written by Paul Glewwe, with some coauthored and contributed pieces from his co-researchers Jaikishan Desai, Dean Jolliffe, Raylynn Oliver and Wim Vijverberg, who worked as research assistants on this project.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Glewwe, Paul

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements Introduction PART I: ANALYSING INVESTMENTS IN EDUCATION Measuring the Returns to Investments in Education: Overview and Critique A New Method to Analyse Investments in Education PART II: THE IMPACT OF INVESTMENTS IN SCHOOL QUALITY ON COGNITIVE SKILLS A Method for Estimating the Determinants of Schooling Outcomes The Impact of Investments in School Quality PART III: COGNITIVE SKILLS, INCOMES AND RATES OF RETURN TO SCHOOL QUALITY INVESTMENTS The Impact of Cognitive Skills on Wages The Impact of Schooling and Cognitive Skills on Income from Non-farm Self-employment; W.P.M.Vijverberg The Impact of Cognitive Skills on Income from Farming; D.Jolliffe PART IV: COGNITIVE SKILLS AND NON-ECONOMIC ACTIVITIES Child Health and Mother's Education in Ghana; P.Glewwe & J.Desai Fertility and Women's Schooling in Ghana; R.Oliver PART V: FINDINGS AND RECOMMENDATIONS Summary of Findings and Recommendations References Index

Über Autor(innen)

PAUL GLEWWE is a Senior Economist at the World Bank. He was previously at Pennsylvania State University and has published very widely in major journals.