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 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).

Information sur les Ressources

Type de ressource

Report

Publié

Publié par

World Bank

Écrit par

HA Patrinos and C Sakellariou

Thème(s)

Education Financing
Education Policy

Zone géographique d'intérêt

Chile