Quality of Schooling, Returns to Schooling and the 1981 Vouchers Reform in Chile

This paper exploits unique information on cognitive ability to examine the importance of schooling and non-schooling cognitive skills for heterogeneous individuals using instrumental variables estimation. Using a binary instrument based on the 1981...

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Main Authors: Patrinos, Harry Anthony, Sakellariou, Chris
Format: Policy Research Working Paper
Language:English
Published: World Bank, Washington, DC 2012
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Online Access:http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2008/05/9429496/quality-schooling-returns-schooling-1981-vouchers-reform-chile
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spelling okr-10986-67212021-04-23T14:02:31Z Quality of Schooling, Returns to Schooling and the 1981 Vouchers Reform in Chile Patrinos, Harry Anthony Sakellariou, Chris ACADEMIC OUTCOMES ACHIEVEMENT TEST SCORES ADULT LITERACY ADULT POPULATIONS AVERAGE TREATMENT EFFECT BASIC EDUCATION BASIC SCHOOL AGE BASIC SCHOOLING BASIC SKILLS BOOKS AT HOME COGNITIVE ACHIEVEMENT COGNITIVE SKILLS COLLEGE EDUCATION COMPULSORY BASIC EDUCATION COMPULSORY SCHOOLING DROPOUT RATE EARLY CHILDHOOD ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ECONOMICS OF EDUCATION EDUCATION INVESTMENTS EDUCATION POLICY EDUCATION REFORM EDUCATION REFORMS EDUCATION STATISTICS EDUCATION SYSTEM EDUCATION SYSTEMS EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT EDUCATIONAL EVALUATION EDUCATIONAL LEVELS EDUCATIONAL QUALITY EDUCATIONAL REFORM ENROLLMENT RATES HIGH SCHOOL HIGHER EDUCATION HIGHER LEVEL OF EDUCATION HUMAN CAPITAL HUMAN DEVELOPMENT INTERVENTIONS LEARNING LITERACY SKILLS LITERACY SURVEY LITERACY TESTS MUNICIPAL SCHOOLS NUMBER OF STUDENTS PAPERS PARENTAL EDUCATION PRIMARY SCHOOL PRIMARY SCHOOL AGE PRIVATE SCHOOLS PROVISION OF EDUCATION PUBLIC EDUCATION PUBLIC SCHOOL PUBLIC SCHOOLS PUPILS QUALITY SCHOOLING QUALITY SCHOOLS RATES OF RETURN READING READING BOOKS REPETITION REPETITION RATES RETURN TO EDUCATION RETURNS TO EDUCATION RURAL AREAS SCHOOL AGE SCHOOL AGE STUDENTS SCHOOL ATTENDANCE SCHOOL CONSTRUCTION SCHOOL ENROLLMENT SCHOOL EXPANSION SCHOOL PARTICIPATION SCHOOL QUALITY SCHOOL REFORM SCHOOL STUDENTS SCHOOL SYSTEM SCHOOLING SCHOOLS SECONDARY EDUCATION SECONDARY SCHOOL SECONDARY SCHOOL AGE SECONDARY SCHOOL ENROLLMENT SECONDARY SCHOOL STUDENTS STUDENT CHARACTERISTICS STUDENT INTAKE TYPES OF SCHOOLS UPPER SECONDARY VOUCHER SYSTEM VOUCHERS This paper exploits unique information on cognitive ability to examine the importance of schooling and non-schooling cognitive skills for heterogeneous individuals using instrumental variables estimation. Using a binary instrument based on the 1981 reform in Chile, the authors find that the main beneficiaries of the reform were those who at the time were pupils in basic schooling (ages 6-13). For this treated group of pupils, only a negligible part of the estimated return to schooling is due to classical ability bias. The labor market reward to an additional year of schooling is a measure of the "true" non-cognitive return to schooling. However, once the treated group is expanded to include secondary school students, the pure return to schooling decreases dramatically, while the return to schooling cognitive and non-schooling cognitive skills increases accordingly, suggesting that a large part of the estimated return in an earnings function is due to classical ability bias. For this treated group (mixture of basic school and secondary school age students), the labor market rewarded cognitive skills (especially those acquired through schooling) significantly. 2012-05-30T21:58:09Z 2012-05-30T21:58:09Z 2008-05 http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2008/05/9429496/quality-schooling-returns-schooling-1981-vouchers-reform-chile http://hdl.handle.net/10986/6721 English Policy Research Working Paper No. 4617 CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo/ World Bank World Bank, Washington, DC Publications & Research :: Policy Research Working Paper Publications & Research Latin America & Caribbean Chile
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topic ACADEMIC OUTCOMES
ACHIEVEMENT TEST SCORES
ADULT LITERACY
ADULT POPULATIONS
AVERAGE TREATMENT EFFECT
BASIC EDUCATION
BASIC SCHOOL AGE
BASIC SCHOOLING
BASIC SKILLS
BOOKS AT HOME
COGNITIVE ACHIEVEMENT
COGNITIVE SKILLS
COLLEGE EDUCATION
COMPULSORY BASIC EDUCATION
COMPULSORY SCHOOLING
DROPOUT RATE
EARLY CHILDHOOD
ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
ECONOMICS OF EDUCATION
EDUCATION INVESTMENTS
EDUCATION POLICY
EDUCATION REFORM
EDUCATION REFORMS
EDUCATION STATISTICS
EDUCATION SYSTEM
EDUCATION SYSTEMS
EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT
EDUCATIONAL EVALUATION
EDUCATIONAL LEVELS
EDUCATIONAL QUALITY
EDUCATIONAL REFORM
ENROLLMENT RATES
HIGH SCHOOL
HIGHER EDUCATION
HIGHER LEVEL OF EDUCATION
HUMAN CAPITAL
HUMAN DEVELOPMENT
INTERVENTIONS
LEARNING
LITERACY SKILLS
LITERACY SURVEY
LITERACY TESTS
MUNICIPAL SCHOOLS
NUMBER OF STUDENTS
PAPERS
PARENTAL EDUCATION
PRIMARY SCHOOL
PRIMARY SCHOOL AGE
PRIVATE SCHOOLS
PROVISION OF EDUCATION
PUBLIC EDUCATION
PUBLIC SCHOOL
PUBLIC SCHOOLS
PUPILS
QUALITY SCHOOLING
QUALITY SCHOOLS
RATES OF RETURN
READING
READING BOOKS
REPETITION
REPETITION RATES
RETURN TO EDUCATION
RETURNS TO EDUCATION
RURAL AREAS
SCHOOL AGE
SCHOOL AGE STUDENTS
SCHOOL ATTENDANCE
SCHOOL CONSTRUCTION
SCHOOL ENROLLMENT
SCHOOL EXPANSION
SCHOOL PARTICIPATION
SCHOOL QUALITY
SCHOOL REFORM
SCHOOL STUDENTS
SCHOOL SYSTEM
SCHOOLING
SCHOOLS
SECONDARY EDUCATION
SECONDARY SCHOOL
SECONDARY SCHOOL AGE
SECONDARY SCHOOL ENROLLMENT
SECONDARY SCHOOL STUDENTS
STUDENT CHARACTERISTICS
STUDENT INTAKE
TYPES OF SCHOOLS
UPPER SECONDARY
VOUCHER SYSTEM
VOUCHERS
spellingShingle ACADEMIC OUTCOMES
ACHIEVEMENT TEST SCORES
ADULT LITERACY
ADULT POPULATIONS
AVERAGE TREATMENT EFFECT
BASIC EDUCATION
BASIC SCHOOL AGE
BASIC SCHOOLING
BASIC SKILLS
BOOKS AT HOME
COGNITIVE ACHIEVEMENT
COGNITIVE SKILLS
COLLEGE EDUCATION
COMPULSORY BASIC EDUCATION
COMPULSORY SCHOOLING
DROPOUT RATE
EARLY CHILDHOOD
ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
ECONOMICS OF EDUCATION
EDUCATION INVESTMENTS
EDUCATION POLICY
EDUCATION REFORM
EDUCATION REFORMS
EDUCATION STATISTICS
EDUCATION SYSTEM
EDUCATION SYSTEMS
EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT
EDUCATIONAL EVALUATION
EDUCATIONAL LEVELS
EDUCATIONAL QUALITY
EDUCATIONAL REFORM
ENROLLMENT RATES
HIGH SCHOOL
HIGHER EDUCATION
HIGHER LEVEL OF EDUCATION
HUMAN CAPITAL
HUMAN DEVELOPMENT
INTERVENTIONS
LEARNING
LITERACY SKILLS
LITERACY SURVEY
LITERACY TESTS
MUNICIPAL SCHOOLS
NUMBER OF STUDENTS
PAPERS
PARENTAL EDUCATION
PRIMARY SCHOOL
PRIMARY SCHOOL AGE
PRIVATE SCHOOLS
PROVISION OF EDUCATION
PUBLIC EDUCATION
PUBLIC SCHOOL
PUBLIC SCHOOLS
PUPILS
QUALITY SCHOOLING
QUALITY SCHOOLS
RATES OF RETURN
READING
READING BOOKS
REPETITION
REPETITION RATES
RETURN TO EDUCATION
RETURNS TO EDUCATION
RURAL AREAS
SCHOOL AGE
SCHOOL AGE STUDENTS
SCHOOL ATTENDANCE
SCHOOL CONSTRUCTION
SCHOOL ENROLLMENT
SCHOOL EXPANSION
SCHOOL PARTICIPATION
SCHOOL QUALITY
SCHOOL REFORM
SCHOOL STUDENTS
SCHOOL SYSTEM
SCHOOLING
SCHOOLS
SECONDARY EDUCATION
SECONDARY SCHOOL
SECONDARY SCHOOL AGE
SECONDARY SCHOOL ENROLLMENT
SECONDARY SCHOOL STUDENTS
STUDENT CHARACTERISTICS
STUDENT INTAKE
TYPES OF SCHOOLS
UPPER SECONDARY
VOUCHER SYSTEM
VOUCHERS
Patrinos, Harry Anthony
Sakellariou, Chris
Quality of Schooling, Returns to Schooling and the 1981 Vouchers Reform in Chile
geographic_facet Latin America & Caribbean
Chile
relation Policy Research Working Paper No. 4617
description This paper exploits unique information on cognitive ability to examine the importance of schooling and non-schooling cognitive skills for heterogeneous individuals using instrumental variables estimation. Using a binary instrument based on the 1981 reform in Chile, the authors find that the main beneficiaries of the reform were those who at the time were pupils in basic schooling (ages 6-13). For this treated group of pupils, only a negligible part of the estimated return to schooling is due to classical ability bias. The labor market reward to an additional year of schooling is a measure of the "true" non-cognitive return to schooling. However, once the treated group is expanded to include secondary school students, the pure return to schooling decreases dramatically, while the return to schooling cognitive and non-schooling cognitive skills increases accordingly, suggesting that a large part of the estimated return in an earnings function is due to classical ability bias. For this treated group (mixture of basic school and secondary school age students), the labor market rewarded cognitive skills (especially those acquired through schooling) significantly.
format Publications & Research :: Policy Research Working Paper
author Patrinos, Harry Anthony
Sakellariou, Chris
author_facet Patrinos, Harry Anthony
Sakellariou, Chris
author_sort Patrinos, Harry Anthony
title Quality of Schooling, Returns to Schooling and the 1981 Vouchers Reform in Chile
title_short Quality of Schooling, Returns to Schooling and the 1981 Vouchers Reform in Chile
title_full Quality of Schooling, Returns to Schooling and the 1981 Vouchers Reform in Chile
title_fullStr Quality of Schooling, Returns to Schooling and the 1981 Vouchers Reform in Chile
title_full_unstemmed Quality of Schooling, Returns to Schooling and the 1981 Vouchers Reform in Chile
title_sort quality of schooling, returns to schooling and the 1981 vouchers reform in chile
publisher World Bank, Washington, DC
publishDate 2012
url http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2008/05/9429496/quality-schooling-returns-schooling-1981-vouchers-reform-chile
http://hdl.handle.net/10986/6721
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