Schooling indicators during Mexico's "Lost decade".

Autor/in	Binder, Melissa
Titel	Schooling indicators during Mexico's "Lost decade".
Quelle	In: Economics of education review, 18 (1999) 2, S. 183-199Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Link als defekt meldenVerfügbarkeit
Beigaben	Literaturangaben 33; Tabellen 7; Grafiken 2
Sprache	englisch; englische Zusammenfassung
Dokumenttyp	online; gedruckt; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0272-7757
DOI	10.1016/S0272-7757(98)00028-4
Schlagwörter	Empirische Untersuchung; Bildungsbeteiligung; Schule; Schülerzahl; Übergang; Schulabschluss; Schulerfolg; Sozioökonomische Lage; Humankapital; Kosten; Bildungsindikator; Statistik; Mexiko
Abstract	The 1980s have been described as a "lost decade" for Latin America as a result of the sharp decline in income that followed the international debt crisis. Using the data of Mexico, this paper explores the impact of the lost decade on schooling indicators. This paper finds that falling opportunity costs in the 1980s improved schooling indicators at the same time that reductions in the level of national income worsened them. The net result of these opposing effects was the relatively stagnant enrollment rates. Simulations suggest that Mexico's secondary school enrollments would have increased considerably, had the 1980s economy grown as rates even one-half of those expected in the 1970s. Analyses of state panel data for this period reveal that continuation rates responded more strongly to economic conditions in poorer states, and that state schooling indicators were sensitive to urbanization, sectoral structure and school spending patterns among states. (DIPF/orig.)
Erfasst von	DIPF \| Leibniz-Institut für Bildungsforschung und Bildungsinformation, Frankfurt am Main
Update	2001_(CD)