Enrollment, graduation, and dropout rates in Latin America: is the glass half empty or half full?

Marina Bassi, Matias Busso and Juan Munoz-Morales

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Abstract: We use 292 household surveys from eighteen 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 improve access, by increasing the resources allocated to education and designing policies to help students stay in school. Despite this progress, graduation rates are still generally low, and there are remarkable gaps in educational outcomes in terms of gender, income quintiles, and regions within countries. The quality of education is also generally low.

Keywords: secondary school; graduation; enrollment; dropout; Latin America (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I20 I21 O54 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 44 pages
Date: 2015-10-01
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Published in Economía, 1, October, 2015, 16(1), pp. 113 - 156. ISSN: 1529-7470

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