Too Hard, Too Easy, or Just Right: The Productivity of Schooling and the Match between Child Skill and School Complexity

doi:10.1093/wber/lhae013

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Too Hard, Too Easy, or Just Right: The Productivity of Schooling and the Match between Child Skill and School Complexity

creativework.datePublished	Published: 04 April 2024
creativeworkseries.issn	1564-698X
dc.contributor.author	Castro, Juan F
dc.contributor.author	Villacorta, Lucciano
dc.date.accessioned	2025-02-07T18:55:26Z
dc.date.available	2025-02-07T18:55:26Z
dc.date.issued	2025-02-07
dc.description.abstract	This study proposes a novel way of modeling the heterogeneous effects of schooling based on the notion that learning is maximized when the skill of the child matches the complexity of the learning experiences at school. It offers direct evidence about the importance of this match using longitudinal information on test scores and schooling attained by children from Peru, India, and Vietnam. Using data from Peru, it also finds that the relation between the effect of schooling and early childhood skill can follow an inverted-U shape. Increasing early childhood skill will raise the productivity of the school up to the point where it matches school complexity. Further increases in child skill, however, will reduce the productivity of schooling as they will widen the mismatch. If one relates the quality of schools to the amount of learning they produce, this framework predicts that quality gains can be achieved by reducing these mismatches.	en
dc.identifier	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/099727502052510310/IDU1313902171e9a3143e618c2215b6e8b23ae8e
dc.identifier.citation	The World Bank Economic Review
dc.identifier.doi	10.1596/42779
dc.identifier.issn	0258-6770
dc.identifier.uri	https://hdl.handle.net/10986/42779
dc.language	English
dc.language.iso	en_US
dc.publisher	Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the World Bank
dc.relation.ispartofseries	World Bank Economic Review
dc.rights	CC BY 3.0 IGO
dc.rights.holder	World Bank
dc.rights.uri	https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo/
dc.subject	EFFECT OF SCHOOLING
dc.subject	EARLY CHILDHOOD SKILL
dc.subject	INSTRUCTIONAL MATCH
dc.title	Too Hard, Too Easy, or Just Right	en
dc.title.subtitle	The Productivity of Schooling and the Match between Child Skill and School Complexity	en
dc.type	Journal Article
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okr.date.disclosure	2025-02-07
okr.date.doiregistration	2025-04-14T11:49:03.225948Z
okr.date.lastmodified	2025-02-05T00:00:00Z	en
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okr.identifier.doi	10.1093/wber/lhae013
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okr.peerreview	Academic Peer Review
okr.region.country	India
okr.region.country	Peru
okr.region.country	Viet Nam
okr.topic	Education::Early Childhood Development
okr.topic	Education::Education Reform and Management
okr.topic	Social Protections and Labor::Skills Development and Labor Force Training
okr.unit	Off of Sr VP Dev Econ/Chief Econ (DECVP)
okr.volume	39(1)
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