Can Better Quality Motivate Interest in Schooling in Developing Countries: A Case Study of Jamaica

dc.contributor.author	Gibbison, Godfrey A.
dc.date.accessioned	2023-05-04T16:47:17Z
dc.date.available	2023-05-04T16:47:17Z
dc.date.issued	2003
dc.description	SALISES Annual Conference, 4th, Two Mile Hill, Barbados	en_US
dc.description.abstract	This paper investigates inequality of access to high-quality primary education in a developing country context, using Jamaica as a case study. It first explores the question of who has access to high-quality primary education, using a measure of educational quality based on the output of the school. It then looks at the matter of parental perception of the quality of their children’s school. It is found that while access to quality differ by economic status, regional differences are also very important. Furthermore, students are much more likely to attend school regularly the better the quality of school. The concavity of the relationship between school quality and school attendance suggests that there is potential for significant gains by focusing on improving the schools at the bottom of the distribution.	en_US
dc.identifier.other	CERIS - 181:06
dc.identifier.uri	https://hdl.handle.net/2139/55467
dc.language.iso	en	en_US
dc.subject	Primary education	en_US
dc.title	Can Better Quality Motivate Interest in Schooling in Developing Countries: A Case Study of Jamaica	en_US
dc.type	Text	en_US

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