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
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spelling	okr-10986-90102021-04-23T14:02:41Z Evaluating the Impact of Mexico's Quality Schools Program : The Pitfalls of Using Nonexperimental Data Skoufias, Emmanuel Shapiro, Joseph 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 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 implement five-year improvement plans that the school's staff and community design. Using a three-year panel of 74,700 schools, the authors estimate the impact of the PEC on dropout, repetition, and failure using two common nonexperimental methods-regression analysis and propensity score matching. The methods provide similar but nonidentical results. The preferred estimator, difference-in-differences with matching, reveals that participation in the PEC decreases dropout by 0.24 percentage points, failure by 0.24 percentage points, and repetition by 0.31 percentage points-an economically small but statistically significant impact. The PEC lacks measurable impact on outcomes in indigenous schools. The results suggest that a combination of increased resources and local management can produce small improvements in school outcomes, though perhaps not in the most troubled school systems. 2012-06-26T14:17:26Z 2012-06-26T14:17:26Z 2006-10 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 English en_US Policy Research Working Paper; No. 4036 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 Mexico
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topic	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
spellingShingle	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 Skoufias, Emmanuel Shapiro, Joseph Evaluating the Impact of Mexico's Quality Schools Program : The Pitfalls of Using Nonexperimental Data
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relation	Policy Research Working Paper; No. 4036
description	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 implement five-year improvement plans that the school's staff and community design. Using a three-year panel of 74,700 schools, the authors estimate the impact of the PEC on dropout, repetition, and failure using two common nonexperimental methods-regression analysis and propensity score matching. The methods provide similar but nonidentical results. The preferred estimator, difference-in-differences with matching, reveals that participation in the PEC decreases dropout by 0.24 percentage points, failure by 0.24 percentage points, and repetition by 0.31 percentage points-an economically small but statistically significant impact. The PEC lacks measurable impact on outcomes in indigenous schools. The results suggest that a combination of increased resources and local management can produce small improvements in school outcomes, though perhaps not in the most troubled school systems.
format	Publications & Research :: Policy Research Working Paper
author	Skoufias, Emmanuel Shapiro, Joseph
author_facet	Skoufias, Emmanuel Shapiro, Joseph
author_sort	Skoufias, Emmanuel
title	Evaluating the Impact of Mexico's Quality Schools Program : The Pitfalls of Using Nonexperimental Data
title_short	Evaluating the Impact of Mexico's Quality Schools Program : The Pitfalls of Using Nonexperimental Data
title_full	Evaluating the Impact of Mexico's Quality Schools Program : The Pitfalls of Using Nonexperimental Data
title_fullStr	Evaluating the Impact of Mexico's Quality Schools Program : The Pitfalls of Using Nonexperimental Data
title_full_unstemmed	Evaluating the Impact of Mexico's Quality Schools Program : The Pitfalls of Using Nonexperimental Data
title_sort	evaluating the impact of mexico's quality schools program : the pitfalls of using nonexperimental data
publisher	World Bank, Washington, DC
publishDate	2012
url	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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