Quality or quantity? The supply-side determinants of primary schooling in rural Mozambique.
Quality or quantity? The supply-side determinants of primary schooling in rural Mozambique.
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质量还是数量？
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2000
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K. Simler
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S. Handa;K. Simler
学校质量在决定教育成果中的作用在美国受到了广泛的研究关注。然而，在发展中国家，很大一部分学龄人口从未上过学，决策者在决定如何最大限度地发挥稀缺投资的影响时，必须同时考虑质量和数量。认识到发展中国家政策环境的这种差异，本文对世界上最贫穷的国家之一莫桑比克农村学校供应的质量与数量投资的影响进行了比较估计。政策模拟表明，提高学校质量（通过学生与教师的比例）可以将成绩和效率提高约9%，而对总体入学率没有影响。然而，通过在目前没有学校的所有农村村庄建立新学校，提高入学率，也可以产生同样的结果。此外，在目前没有学校的所有村庄中，只有56%的村庄建立学校，只要这些学校设在附近也没有学校的村庄，就可以实现类似的学校成绩指标增长率。在考虑成本信息时，主要的政策含义是，通过有针对性地安置新学校来扩大学校数量，将为莫桑比克目前的教育成果提供最大的增长。
The role of school quality in determining educational outcomes has received much research attention in the United States. However, in developing countries, where a significant part of the school age population never attends school, policymakers must consider both quality and quantity when deciding how to maximize the impact of scarce investments. Acknowledging this difference in the policy environment in developing countries, this paper provides comparative estimates of the impact of quality versus quantity investments in school supply in rural Mozambique, one of the world’s poorest countries. Policy simulations show that improving school quality (through the pupilteacher ratio) increases grade attainment and efficiency by approximately 9 percent with no impact on overall enrollment rates. However, these same results can be generated by increasing starting enrollment probabilities through the establishment of new schools in all rural villages that currently do not have schools. Furthermore, similar rates of increase in school achievement indicators can be achieved by building schools in only 56 percent of all villages currently without schools, provided these schools are placed in those villages that also do not have a school nearby. When cost information is considered, the main policy implication is that the expansion of school quantity through well-targeted placement of new schools will provide the greatest increase in educational outcomes for Mozambique at this time.