| Publicació: |
[Barcelona] : Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, 2013 |
| Descripció: |
1 recurs electrònic (181 p.) |
| Resum: |
The thesis examines three topics. The first one titled "Language use in education andprimary schooling attainment: Evidence from a natural experiment in Ethiopia" looks atthe effect of language policy choices on educational outcomes applying a difference in dif-ferences approach. Ethiopia introduced mother tongue instruction in primary schoolingfor the largest ethnic group in 1994. Using the fact that the exposure to the languagepolicy change was jointly determined by the date of birth, language group and the regionof residence, we estimate the causal effect of the provision of mother tongue instruction. Our results show that provision of mother tongue education led to an increase of 1 year ofprimary schooling and 1. 18 years of schooling in the affected cohort, which is13of the meanyears of schooling in the country. Moreover the entire increase in the years of schooling canbe attributed to the intensive margin of education. The language policy change increasedthe percentage of people completing 6 years or more of schooling by 12%. Applying ourfindings to a set of African countries suggests that introduction of mother tongue instruc-tion increases the percentage of population completing primary schooling by as much as8% points. These findings have important policy implications at a time when there is needfor solutions which can increase the quality of education without requiring huge capital orinfrastructural outlays. |
| Nota: |
Tesi doctoral - Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Departament d'Economia i d'Història Econòmica, 2013 |
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| Llengua: |
Anglès |
| Document: |
Tesi doctoral ; Versió publicada |
| Matèria: |
Education |
| ISBN: |
9788449038068 |
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