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on Education |
| By: | Puccioni, F. G.; Cavalcanti, T. |
| Abstract: | Causal evidence on the effectiveness of management in education is limited and ambiguous. In this study, we investigate how cost-effective management practices boost student learning through a randomised field experiment conducted with 31, 760 students from 80 grade 1–9 public schools in the municipality of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The experiment intervention, delivered by municipal servants exclusively to school managers, involved one-to-one coaching and on-the-job training focused on implementing the World Management Survey (WMS)’s “23 best management practices†for the education sector. We also conducted two doubleblind, in-depth management surveys, one prior to and one following the programme implementation, to evaluate precisely the quality of the management of the schools. The surveys were based on the WMS methodology. After two years, the estimated average treatment effects were 0.928 (0.260) SD for school management, 0.226 (0.059) SD for reading, and 0.237 (0.059) SD for mathematics. Instrumental variable estimates indicate that a one-point improvement in school management (on a 1—5 scale) led to gains of 0.680 (0.245) SD in reading and 0.714 (0.265) SD in mathematics. Students in schools achieving a one-point management improvement were more than two academic years of learning ahead of peers in untreated schools. We present causal estimates amongst the largest in the education intervention literature based on a programme that costs only $15.22 (PPP-adjusted) per student per year. The programme can be applied to any school and has expanded in Brazil. |
| JEL: | C93 H83 I20 J24 M10 |
| Date: | 2025–03–27 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:cam:camdae:2515 |
| By: | Eric Schuss |
| Abstract: | This study examines the impact of increased access to higher education on labor demand, wages, and labor market structure. I focus on the quasi-experimental increase in the number of universities and universities of applied sciences in Bavaria since the 1970s and establishment of such higher education institutes under the "Future of Bavaria Offensive" program in the 1990s. I use administrative establishment-level data and find a positive but statistically insignificant effect on median wages resulting from expansion of higher education. While there is a negative but insignificant impact on wages of highly skilled workers, those without academic or vocational degree experience an increase in wages. I also find that training activities decline immediately after establishment of a new higher education institution. Further empirical analyses indicate that this decline is driven by changes in educational choices of school graduates rather than by labor demand of establishments. |
| Keywords: | Expansion of higher education, Labor demand, Wages, Event-study design |
| JEL: | I23 J23 J31 C21 |
| Date: | 2025–04 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:iso:educat:0239 |
| By: | Bonander, Carl; Hammar, Olle; Jakobsson, Niklas; Bensch, Gunther; Holzmeister, Felix; Brodeur, Abel |
| Abstract: | Islam (2019) reports results from a randomized field experiment in Bangladesh that examines the effects of parent-teacher meetings on student test scores in primary schools. The reported findings suggest strong positive effects across multiple subjects. In this report, we demonstrate that the school-level randomization cannot have been conducted as the author claims. Specifically, we show that the nine included Bangladeshi unions all have a share of either 0% or 100% treated or control schools. Additionally, we uncover irregularities in baseline scores, which for the same students and subjects vary systematically across the author's data files in ways that are unique to either the treatment or control group. We also discovered data on two unreported outcomes and data collected from the year before the study began. Results using these data cast further doubt on the validity of the original study. Moreover, in a survey asking parents to evaluate the parent-teacher meetings, we find that parents in the control schools were more positive about this intervention than those in the treated schools. We also find undisclosed connections to two additional RCTs. |
| Keywords: | Reproduction, Student outcomes, Field experiments, Bangladesh |
| JEL: | B41 C12 I25 |
| Date: | 2025 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:zbw:i4rdps:214 |
| By: | Yoga Affandi (Bank Indonesia); Donni Fajar Anugrah (Bank Indonesia); Cicilia Anggadewi Harun (Bank Indonesia); Mohammad Marza Naufal (Bank Indonesia); Jessica Tasijawa (Bank Indonesia); Pandu Kuntoadji (Bank Indonesia) |
| Abstract: | This study explores strategies for optimizing human capital to drive Indonesia's economic growth above 5%. Low labor productivity and disparities in education quality between regions are the main obstacles to achieving higher growth. The results of the panel data analysis show that increasing human capital significantly increases economic growth, especially in sectors that require high skills, such as health and manufacturing. Increasing human capital accelerates technological innovation, where skilled workers can adopt and develop new technologies that drive efficiency and competitiveness. On the other hand, there are fundamental problems in the education system, such as frequent curriculum changes, uneven teacher quality, and bullying in schools, which hinder human capital development. In addition, the increase in human capital is still concentrated in Java, while other regions need to catch up in access and quality of education, which causes inequality. Therefore, close collaboration between the government and the private sector is needed to improve the quality of education and ensure the development of human capital evenly across regions so that its impact can be optimized to drive more inclusive and sustainable economic growth. |
| Keywords: | Education and Economic Development, Human Capital, Migration |
| JEL: | I25 J24 O15 |
| Date: | 2024 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:idn:wpaper:wp042024 |