Economics of Education - Science topic

Artificial Intelligence (AI) has the potential to transform education systems and make them more equitable. It can accelerate the long overdue transformation of education systems towards inclusive learning that will prepare young people to thrive and shape a better future.

Dear Darren, thank you for your view. I do agree with your points.

Dear Carmem Fruhauf de Oliveira,

Your research idea is very interesting. I am sharing my thoughts on it. As mentioned in your question, I consider a game between the government and a potential teacher and it proceeds as follows.

Suppose the government arranges for training and the teachers decide to participate. Now the government must choose the amount of investment. This will create a level of teaching skill which, along with teacher's effort, will become input to produce a particular quality of a good, say 'teaching'. This good will have public good characteristics for the students. On the other hand, a teacher will get a fixed income but only after completion of the training period i.e. in future period. So he will discount his future utility to obtain utility in the present period. But if he does not participate in training, he can still get a job (may be as a contractual teacher) instantaneously but at a lower salary and will produce a low quality public good.

If the government does not invest in training then it will spend that amount in some other development projects which will yield some level of social benefits. In that situation, if a teacher opts for teaching job he will get a lower salary (compared to what he would be getting as a trained teacher) and will produce an inferior quality of the public good (teaching service).

The government, being a social planner, will take decision through maximizing social welfare which will include the payoffs of all the agents, whereas, a teacher will decide by maximizing his own utility.

This is merely a draft of what I thought. You can build a model considering suitable functions and solve it.

With regards,

Tilak Sanyal

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Thank you for your question. Not finding a "suitable theory" doesn't mean that you have to change your topic. Just start with the empirical part and then figure out the theory on the fly. For a Bachelor thesis this should suffice.

Good luck!

Hi Dr. Miroslav

Evaluation of public support programs in education is a broad field. In the US, for instance, they include evaluation of federal programs like school improvement grants. Besides, there are state-level evaluation studies. Among them, evaluations of school voucher programs are worth to look because a growing body of studies has focused on the impact of those programs for the last two decades. Below are two examples that you may want to look at:

Waddington, R. J., & Berends, M. (2018). Impact of the Indiana Choice Scholarship Program: Achievement effects for students in upper elementary and middle school. Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 37(4), 783-808.

Chakrabarti, R. (2013). Do vouchers lead to sorting under random private school selection? Evidence from the Milwaukee voucher program. Economics of Education Review, 34, 191-218.

I`d suggest you look at the Journal of Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis for a wide range of education topics.

Best

Dear Carlos Cercós-Pérez ,

Just a short email to inform you that I read an interesting book on your topic. It is the book: Brenda Judge, Patrick Jones and Elaine McCreery (2009) Critical Thinking Skills for Education Students, published by Learning Matters Ltd.

I think that the book gives you the basic knowledge about relationship higher education and skills.

I hope I have been of some help,

Yours sincerely,

Andrija

Some additional papers on the same topic, which are avaliable are:

Z. A. Al-Hemyari, and A. Al-Humairi (2017). Quality Teaching of Private HEIs: Comparative Study based on Students’ Perceptions and Expectations. Int. J. of Quality and Innovation, Vol. 3, Nos. 2/3/4, pp. 209-228 (Inderscience).

Al-Hemyari and S. Al-Balushi (2017). Students’ Perceptions and Expectations in Quality Teaching of Private HEIs: Comparative Study. 4th OQNHE Conference 2017, Muscat, pp.1-14.

Z. A. Al-Hemyari and A. M. Al-Sarmi (2015). Standards, benchmarks and qualitative indicators to enhance the institution’s activities and performance: Surveys and data analysis. International Journal of Knowledge-Based Organizations (IJKBO), 5 (4), pp.38-62

Regards,

Zuhair

Hello Heba,

The quick answer is yes, you can use linear regression for such a dependent variable. But, there are things to consider.

Think of a linear probability model with two outcomes (0 or 1). Although a major drawback of such a model is its predicted probabilities (i.e., greater than 1 or less than 0), it is much easier to deal with endogeneity issues when using a linear model. As such, if you are looking to make causal inferences (i.e., zero mean assumption), but have endogeneity issues, a linear problem is a bit easier to tackle. If you take a look at marginal effects of logit or probit and compare to the beta estimates of the linear model, they should be similar. This is telling you that the effect of the variable is approximately the same with either modeling framework.

Ultimately, it comes down to what you trying to do: predict or make causal inference by dealing with endogeneity.

Best,

Jason

Colleagues, try to look at this information in the official statistics of the ministry of education.

Please refer to the website

You will see all the necessary steps such as

GET FILE =‘C:\PISA\DATA2006\All.sav’.EXE

Hello Silvana, That paper is one of the best at distilling the science of risk and resilience. That working group is working toward disseminating this research to estanlish evidence based early childhood policies and funding I'm glad you found the link helpful. The site has some incredible resouces, videos,policy briefs etc.  Best Rose

William,

One study used one independent variable (charter or traditional school) and five dependent variables (mathematics exit-level TAKS scores, English exit-level TAKS scores, attendance rates, dropout rates, and expenditures per pupil).

Kind regards,

Janet

Hi Joy, not sure this answers your question, but I'll start off the discussion. Anecdotally, students in our BSN programs with low income tend to build their career toward a nursing degree; moving from Unregulated Care Worker, through Licensed Practical Nurse to RN. This reference might be a start...Donald Snook, "Predicting academic success for low -income students in an urban Licensed Practical Nursing (LPN) program" (January 1, 1997). Dissertations available from ProQuest. Paper AAI9810577. http://repository.upenn.edu/dissertations/AAI9810577

The BSN programs in our province strive for distributed learning to communities which would otherwise not have access to nursing education, whether that be because leaving home is personally or economically inviable (family commitments, distance to facilities and cost of living).

Information about student success and program attributes is collected every year for review and evaluation - these are public documents in our institutions.

Walter,

Thank you. I am trying to use the excel program developed by you. However, the data non availability in details may need to develop the excel tables differently. I am sending a excel sheet to you by email.

I look forward for your comments.

Thank you for the details about your book on "Higher Learning, Greater Good". I will try to get it.

Best regards,

Geetha

Dear Ezter, good morning and thank you so much for posting this question. I think we should have a dichotomy between the rich countries and the developing ones. For the rich nations with high human development index, higher education lever or at least maintains the intellectual growth, technological and even social one. Unfortunately, in developing countries (I say, excuse me, for my beloved country, Brazil), where there are huge valleys that separate the very rich minority of the majority poor and uneducated, enslaved by stock welfare, I am fully convinced that the primary and secondary education are fundamentally more important for the formation of a solid nation, strong, self-sufficient and independent of "vote buying" on the part of politicians, who do not want a nation closely informed and able to criticize and also self criticize to do more and better choices. It is my humble opinion and contribution. Unfortunately I wish it could be different, very different, and I do my best to make it happen. Sincerely, Vinicius Pedrazzi.

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