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

Autores
Bassi, Marina; Busso, Matías; Muñoz, Juan Sebastián
Año de publicación
2014
Idioma
inglés
Tipo de recurso
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Estado
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Descripción
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.
Centro de Estudios Distributivos, Laborales y Sociales (CEDLAS)
Materia
Ciencias Económicas
enseñanza secundaria
JEL: I21, I24, O54
Educación
América Latina
secondary school, graduation, enrollment, dropout
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acceso abierto
Condiciones de uso
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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dc.title.none.fl_str_mv Is the Glass Half Empty or Half Full? : Enrollment, Graduation, and Dropout Rates in Latin America
title Is the Glass Half Empty or Half Full? : Enrollment, Graduation, and Dropout Rates in Latin America
spellingShingle Is the Glass Half Empty or Half Full? : Enrollment, Graduation, and Dropout Rates in Latin America
Bassi, Marina
Ciencias Económicas
enseñanza secundaria
JEL: I21, I24, O54
Educación
América Latina
secondary school, graduation, enrollment, dropout
title_short Is the Glass Half Empty or Half Full? : Enrollment, Graduation, and Dropout Rates in Latin America
title_full Is the Glass Half Empty or Half Full? : Enrollment, Graduation, and Dropout Rates in Latin America
title_fullStr Is the Glass Half Empty or Half Full? : Enrollment, Graduation, and Dropout Rates in Latin America
title_full_unstemmed Is the Glass Half Empty or Half Full? : Enrollment, Graduation, and Dropout Rates in Latin America
title_sort Is the Glass Half Empty or Half Full? : Enrollment, Graduation, and Dropout Rates in Latin America
dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv Bassi, Marina
Busso, Matías
Muñoz, Juan Sebastián
author Bassi, Marina
author_facet Bassi, Marina
Busso, Matías
Muñoz, Juan Sebastián
author_role author
author2 Busso, Matías
Muñoz, Juan Sebastián
author2_role author
author
dc.subject.none.fl_str_mv Ciencias Económicas
enseñanza secundaria
JEL: I21, I24, O54
Educación
América Latina
secondary school, graduation, enrollment, dropout
topic Ciencias Económicas
enseñanza secundaria
JEL: I21, I24, O54
Educación
América Latina
secondary school, graduation, enrollment, dropout
dc.description.none.fl_txt_mv 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.
Centro de Estudios Distributivos, Laborales y Sociales (CEDLAS)
description 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.
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