Empowering parents to improve education: evidence from rural Mexico

Paul Gertler, Harry Patrinos and Marta Rubio-Codina
Authors registered in the RePEc Author Service: Marta Rubio Codina ()

No 3935, Policy Research Working Paper Series from The World Bank

Abstract: Mexico's compensatory education program provides extra resources to primary schools that enroll disadvantaged students in highly disadvantaged rural communities. One of the most important components of the program is the school-based management intervention known as AGEs. The impact of the AGEs is assessed on intermediate school quality indicators (failure, repetition and dropout), controlling for the presence of the conditional cash transfer program. Results prove that school-based management is an effective measure for improving outcomes, based on an over time difference-in-difference evaluation. Complementary qualitative evidence corroborates the veracity of such findings.

Keywords: Tertiary Education; Education For All; Teaching and Learning; Primary Education; Disability; Economics of Education (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2008-05-01
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