Schooling, Cognitive Skills, and the Latin American Growth Puzzle. NBER Working Paper No. 15066

Autor/inn/en	Hanushek, Eric A.; Woessmann, Ludger
Institution	National Bureau of Economic Research
Titel	Schooling, Cognitive Skills, and the Latin American Growth Puzzle. NBER Working Paper No. 15066
Quelle	(2009) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Monographie
Schlagwörter	Economic Development; Indigenous Populations; Self Determination; Racial Differences; Foreign Countries; Latin Americans; Educational Attainment; Educational Development; Cognitive Development; Thinking Skills; Educational Testing; Educational Assessment; Measurement; Comparative Analysis; International Education; Developing Nations; Regression (Statistics); Comparative Education; Evaluation Methods + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Wirtschaftsentwicklung; Sinti und Roma; Selbstbestimmung; Rassenunterschied; Ausland; Latin America; People; Lateinamerika; Bevölkerung; Volk; Bildungsabschluss; Bildungsgut; Bildungsentwicklung; Kognitive Entwicklung; Denkfähigkeit; Education; assessment; Bewertungssystem; Messverfahren; Internationale Erziehung; Developing country; Developing countries; Entwicklungsland; Regression; Regressionsanalyse; Vergleichende Erziehungswissenschaft
Abstract	Economic development in Latin America has trailed most other world regions over the past four decades despite its relatively high initial development and school attainment levels. This puzzle can be resolved by considering the actual learning as expressed in tests of cognitive skills, on which Latin American countries consistently perform at the bottom. In growth models estimated across world regions, these low levels of cognitive skills can account for the poor growth performance of Latin America. Given the limitations of worldwide tests in discriminating performance at low levels, we also introduce measures from two regional tests designed to measure performance for all Latin American countries with internationally comparable income data. Our growth analysis using these data confirms the significant effects of cognitive skills on intra-regional variations. Splicing the new regional tests into the worldwide tests, we also confirm this effect in extended worldwide regressions, although it appears somewhat smaller in the regional Latin American data than in the worldwide data. (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10