The impacts of secondary education reforms on schooling and income of women and men in the Philippines

Ma. Laarni D. Revilla and Jonna P. Estudillo
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Ma. Laarni D. Revilla: World Bank
Jonna P. Estudillo: University of the Philippines

Philippine Review of Economics, 2022, vol. 59, issue 1, 1-25

Abstract: In 1988 and 1989, the Philippine government implemented free public and subsidized private secondary schooling through two major policies, namely Republic Act (RA) 6655 and RA 6728. This study investigates the long-run impacts of the two policies on schooling attainment and income using a regression discontinuity design (RDD). It draws data from the Annual Poverty Indicators Survey 2008 and 2011. We present two main !ndings. First, younger cohorts of women and men, who are policy bene!ciaries, have signi!cantly higher educational attainment relative to non-bene!ciaries. Second, an additional year of schooling signi!cantly increases individual income of women in the informal sector and men in the formal sector. In brief, our !ndings suggest that the policies are effective in enhancing schooling attainment, but the downstream impacts appear to have accrued substantially to women employed in the informal sector and men employed in the formal sector.

Keywords: schooling; income; gender; regression discontinuity design (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I21 I25 I26 I28 O1 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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