Assessing the impact of a reform on educational and labor outcomes: the case of Argentina's Ley Federal de Educación

In the nineties Argentina implemented a large education reform (Ley Federal de Educación – LFE) that mainly implied the extension of compulsory education in two additional years. The timing in the implementation substantially varied across provinces, providing a source of identification for the caus...

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Autores principales: Alzúa, María, Gasparini, Leonardo, Haimovich, Francisco
Formato: Objeto de conferencia
Lenguaje:Inglés
Publicado: 2010
Acceso en línea:http://sedici.unlp.edu.ar/handle/10915/169678
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Sumario:In the nineties Argentina implemented a large education reform (Ley Federal de Educación – LFE) that mainly implied the extension of compulsory education in two additional years. The timing in the implementation substantially varied across provinces, providing a source of identification for the causal effect of the reform. The estimations from difference-in-difference models suggest that the LFE had an overall positive although mild impact on education and labor outcomes. The impact on the income-deprived youths was small for education outcomes and null for labor outcomes.