Evaluating the Impact of Mexico's Quality Schools Program : The Pitfalls of Using Nonexperimental Data

The authors evaluate whether increasing school resources and decentralizing management decisions at the school level improves learning in a developing country. Mexico's Quality Schools Program (PEC), following many other countries and U.S. states, offers US$15,000 grants for public schools to i...

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Main Authors:	Skoufias, Emmanuel, Shapiro, Joseph
Format:	Policy Research Working Paper
Language:	English en_US
Published:	World Bank, Washington, DC 2012
Subjects:	ACCESS TO SANITATION ADULTS ADVANCED EDUCATION CLASS SIZE CLASSROOM CLASSROOM ACTIVITIES COGNITIVE SKILLS CURRICULUM DECENTRALIZATION DISADVANTAGED SCHOOLS DROP OUT RATES DROPOUT RATE DROPOUT RATES DROPOUT RATES EDUCATION DATA EDUCATION DECENTRALIZATION EDUCATION OUTCOMES EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT EDUCATIONAL DEVELOPMENT EDUCATIONAL INPUTS EDUCATIONAL INTERVENTIONS ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS ELEMENTS EMPLOYMENT ENROLLMENT EXAM EXAMS EXPERIMENTAL METHODS FIELD EXPERIMENTS FORMAL TRAINING HIGHER DROPOUT HOMEWORK ILLITERACY ILLITERACY RATES INDEXES INDIGENOUS SCHOOLS INVOLVEMENT IN EDUCATION LEARNING LET LITERATURE MATH TEST MATHEMATICS MINISTRY OF EDUCATION NUMBER OF SCHOOLS NUMBER OF STUDENTS PAPERS PARENT ASSOCIATIONS PARENTAL PARTICIPATION PARTICIPATION IN SCHOOLS PARTICIPATION OF PARENTS PEDAGOGICAL DECISIONS PRESCHOOL EDUCATION PRIMARY SCHOOL PUBLIC PRIMARY SCHOOLS PUBLIC SCHOOLS QUALITY OF INSTRUCTION QUALITY SCHOOLS RADIO READING READING PRACTICES REPETITION REPETITION RATE REPETITION RATES RURAL AREAS SANITATION SCHOLARSHIPS SCHOOL AUTONOMY SCHOOL BUILDING SCHOOL CENSUS SCHOOL CENSUSES SCHOOL DATA SCHOOL FEEDING SCHOOL FEEDING PROGRAMS SCHOOL IMPROVEMENT SCHOOL INFRASTRUCTURE SCHOOL LEARNING SCHOOL LEVEL SCHOOL PRINCIPALS SCHOOL QUALITY SCHOOL SCHEDULE SCHOOL SPACES SCHOOL SYSTEMS SCHOOL YEAR SCHOOL YEARS SCHOOLING SCHOOLS SECONDARY SCHOOLS SOCIAL GROUPS STUDENT ABSENTEEISM STUDENT LEARNING STUDENT SATISFACTION STUDENTS PER TEACHER SUBJECTS TEACHER TEACHER PERFORMANCE TEACHER TRAINING TEACHERS TEACHING TEST SCORES TEXTBOOK TEXTBOOKS TRAINING PROGRAMS URBAN SCHOOLS
Online Access:	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2006/10/7126808/evaluating-impact-mexicos-quality-schools-program-pitfalls-using-nonexperimental-data http://hdl.handle.net/10986/9010

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http://hdl.handle.net/10986/9010

Evaluating the Impact of Mexico's Quality Schools Program : The Pitfalls of Using Nonexperimental Data

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