Quiz 21

Question 1

Primary school enrollment around the world has___dramatically between 1999 and 2006.

Answer 1

increased

Question 2

Investing in education does not lead to growth, and maybe a waste of foreign aid. What is one reason why we may hesitate to reach that conclusion?

Answer 2

There is no credible counterfactual: we don’t know what would have happened in countries that invested a lot in education in the absence of those investments.

Question 3

Given the examples from Indonesia’s INPRES program, and Taiwan’s compulsory education policy, what are some impacts of education?

Answer 3

Higher wages; lower infant mortality rates

Question 4

In research about education across countries, researchers have used the number of completed years of education as a measure of basic educational attainment, what are some weaknesses of this measure of educational attainment?

Answer 4

Years of completed schooling do not necessarily reflect a person’s cognitive skills and knowledge.