PIERI-11243 Assessing the impact of Argentina's Ley Federal de Educación on educational and labor outcomes

Abstract

In 1994 the Argentine Congress passed a law aimed at changing some important characteristics of the educational system. Chiefly among them, there was an extension of two years on compulsory education. There is a heated debate between supporters and detractors of the reform regarding the impact on educational achievements and labor performance of youths, without almost any rigorous empirical evidence. The aim of this project is to contribute to this debate shedding light on the effect of the law on some educational and labor outcomes. Our identification strategy exploits the substantial regional variation in the timing of the reform, along with panel data to control for unobserved heterogeneity.

Members

Project leader: Leonardo Gasparini

Project researchers: Mariana Viollaz | Carlos Germán Bet | Maria Laura Alzua | Mariana Marchionni | Carolina Garcia Domench

Journal publication

Authors	Co-Authors	Title of paper	Title of Economic Review	Bibliographic references
Leonardo Gasparini	Mariana Viollaz, Carlos Germán Bet, Maria Laura Alzua, Mariana Marchionni, Carolina Garcia Domench	Educational Reform and Labor Market Outcomes: the Case of Argentina's Ley Federal de Educacion	Journal of Applied Economics	2015, Vol. 18, pp.21-44

Working Papers

	Title	Modified	Size	Comments	Recommendations
	Educational Reform and Labor Market Outcomes: the Case of Argentina's Ley Federal de Educaciòn	2011-12-20	160.13KB	0	0

Policy Briefs

	Title	Modified	Size	Comments	Recommendations
	Education Reform and Labor Market Outcomes: the Case of Argentina's Ley Federal de Educacion	2012-01-02	193.3KB	0	0

Final report

	Title	Modified	Size	Comments	Recommendations
		2011-03-28	1107KB	0	0

Proposal

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		2008-08-27	111.56KB	0	0