Roundtable: World Bank Reports on Education and Quality

Programmatic Poverty Program
Gladys López-Acevedo (World Bank)

Quality of Education in Mexico: Determinants of Learning and Impact Evaluations
Harry Patrinos (World Bank)

Discussant: Miguel Székely, Undersecretary for Public Education

Session I : The effects of cash transfer on the quality of education
Moderator: Harry Patrinos (World Bank)

Héctor Villarreal (ITESM) and M. Garza (Gobierno Coahuila), “Do conditional cash transfers affect poor student’s performance?” [pdf, 162KB]

Graciela Teruel (U. Iberoamericana)

Mary Arends-Kuenning (University of Illinois), and M. Bezerra, A.L. Kassouf, “The impact of child labor and school quality on academic achievement in Brazil” [pdf, 104KB] [Tables]

Susan Parker (CIDE)

Furio Rosati (Unicef), and M.C. Rossi “Examining the Impact of Cash Transfer and Supply Side of Intervention on Child Labour in Mexico” [pdf, 313KB]

Luis Rubalcava (CIDE)

Session II  
Moderator: Alejandro Rodríguez Arana (U. Iberoamericana)

Lucrecia Santibañez(CIDE),  and B. Jarillo Rabling “Muscle, Timing and Priorities: Teacher Unions and Education Quality in Mexico” [pdf, 192KB]

Erik Bloom (World Bank)

León Fernández (Banco Central de Venezuela), “The effect of decentralization on Mexican educational achievement” [pdf, 202KB]

Teresa Bracho (CIDE)

Facundo Crosta (Ministerio de Economía y Producción, Argentina) and C. Iglesias, “Exploring the effects of the educational reform on access and the quality of that access: The Federal Education Law of Argentine” [pdf, 170KB]

Felipe Barrera (World Bank)

María Emma Santos (Universidad Nacional del Sur-CONICET), “Quality of Education in Argentina: Determinants and Distribution using PISA’s 2000 test scores” [pdf, 627KB]

Mary Arends-Kuenning (University of Illinois)

Parallel Session II:
Moderator: Martha Miranda (CISS)

Carlos Medina (Bank of Colombia) and O.L. Bríñez, “The Effects of Class Size on Quality of Education in Colombia” [pdf, 473KB]

Héctor Salgado Banda (Banco de México)

Hugo Ñopo (IADB), and S. Calónico “Returns to private education in Peru” [pdf, 123KB]

David Kaplan (ITAM)

Carlos Muñoz Izquierdo (INIDE, Universidad Iberoamericana), “Explorando La Relevancia De Las Habilidades Académicas De Los Egresados De Secundaria, En Localidades Marginadas: Un Estudio De Caso” [pdf, 93KB] [Cuadros]

Rafael Freyre (SEP)

Husein Abdul-Hamid (University of Maryland University College), “Assessing Argentina’s Preparedness for the Knowledge Economy: Measuring Student Knowledge and Skills in Reading, Mathematical and Scientific Literacy” [pdf, 263KB]

Guadalupe Villarreal (ITESM)

Reception

Session III
Moderator: Nelly Aguilera (CISS)

Vicente García-Moreno (World Bank), and H. Patrinos “Institutional Effects as Determinants of Learning Outcomes: Exploring State Variations in Mexico” [pdf, 85KB]

Alejandro Ramírez (CINEPOLIS)

Guadalupe Villarreal (ITESM), ”Diagnóstico educativo del Programa Oportunidades y su Impacto en el Abatimiento de Desigualdades Educativas en Comunidades Rurales y Semi-Urbanas en Nuevo León y Chiapas” [pdf, 265KB]

Gerardo Esquivel (COLMEX)

Felipe Barrera (World Bank), L. Linden, M. Urquiola (Columbia University), “Reduction of user fee program of Bogotá” [pdf, 207KB]

María Emma Santos (Universidad Nacional del Sur-CONICET)

Parallel Session III:
Moderator: Patricia López (U Iberoamericana)

Laura Ripani (IADB) and L. Di Gresia, M.V. Fazio, A. Porto, W. Sosa-Escudero, “Public University Students' Performance in Argentina" [pdf, 530KB]

Sara Castellanos (Banco de México)

Eduardo Andrade (IBMEC Sao Paolo, Brazil), “Effects of the Brazilian university policy of targeting the poor” [pdf, 178KB]

Ernesto Sepúlveda (Banco de México)

Ximena Dueñas (Columbia University), “Higher education in Colombia” [pdf, 178KB]

Erik Bloom (World Bank)

Session IV
Moderator:  Eduardo Rodríguez-Oreggia, IIDSES, U. Iberoamericana

Paul Gertler (UC Berkeley) and H. Patrinos, M. Rubio (World Bank, IFS), “Does supply-side-oriented and demand-side-oriented education programs generate synergies? Evidence from rural Mexico” [pdf, 340KB]

Discussant  Rodolfo de la Torre, IIDSES, Universidad Iberoamericana

Jeffrey B. Nugent (University of Southern California, Los Angeles) and S. Motiram and (Dalhousie University;), “Inequality, Quality of Primary Education and Development in Latin America and the Caribbean” [pdf, 148KB]

David Mayer (CIDE)

Harry Patrinos (World Bank) and C. Sakellariou (Nanyang Technological University), “Cognitive ability, heterogeneity, endogeneity and returns to schooling in Chile: Outcomes of the 1981 capitation grant scheme” [pdf, 108KB]

Eduardo Rodríguez-Oreggia, IIDSES, U. Iberoamericana

Closing comments: Harry Patrinos (World Bank)