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Is the Glass Half Empty or Half Full? Enrollment, Graduation, and Dropout Rates in Latin America

We use 292 household surveys from 18 Latin American countries to document patterns in secondary school graduation rates over the period 1990-2010. We find that enrollment and graduation rates increased during that period while dropout rates decreased. We provide two types of explanations for these patterns. Countries implemented changes on the supply side to increase access, by increasing the resources allocated to education and designing policies to help students staying in school. Despite this progress, graduation rates are still generally low, there still persist remarkable gaps in educational outcomes in terms of gender, income quintiles, and regions within countries, and the quality of education is generally low.

Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Series: Documento de Trabajo ; No. 170

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
Analysis of Education
Education and Inequality
Economywide Country Studies: Latin America; Caribbean
Thema
Secondary school
graduation
enrollment
dropout
Latin America

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Bassi, Marina
Busso, Matias
Muñoz, Juan Sebastián
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
Universidad Nacional de La Plata, Centro de Estudios Distributivos, Laborales y Sociales (CEDLAS)
(wo)
La Plata
(wann)
2014

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Objekttyp

  • Arbeitspapier

Beteiligte

  • Bassi, Marina
  • Busso, Matias
  • Muñoz, Juan Sebastián
  • Universidad Nacional de La Plata, Centro de Estudios Distributivos, Laborales y Sociales (CEDLAS)

Entstanden

  • 2014

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