Harry Anthony Patrinos
Biographic Data
| ID | 3661329 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Harry Anthony Patrinos |
| GIVEN NAMES | Harry Anthony |
| FAMILY NAME | Patrinos |
| SIGNATURE | PATRINOS H A |
| AFFILIATIONS | World Bank |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4939-3568 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 41 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 131 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 36 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 5 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1993 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
The learning crisis
The COVID-19 pandemic caused widespread disruptions to education, with school closures affecting over one billion children. These closures, aimed at reducing virus transmission, resulted in significant learning losses, particularly in mathematics and science. Using data from TIMSS 2023, which assesses fourth and eighth-grade achievements across 71 education systems, this study analyzes the impact of school closure duration on learning outcomes. M…
Human Capital and Climate Change
Addressing climate change requires individual behavior change and voter support for pro-climate policies, yet surprisingly little is known about how to achieve these outcomes. In this paper, we estimate causal effects of additional education on pro-climate outcomes using new compulsory schooling law data across 20 European countries. We analyze effects on pro-climate beliefs and behaviors, as well as novel data on policy preferences and voting fo…
The mis-education of women in Afghanistan
This study examines the private monetary rate of return to schooling in Afghanistan. We use two novel datasets—a series of nationally representative household surveys (2007, 2014, 2020) and administrative data on public employees in 2018—and apply OLS, Heckman selection correction, and instrumental-variables estimation to measure returns to education. We find that one additional year of schooling, on average, is associated with a 3 to 7 percent i…
Causal returns to education
Using 191 estimates from 145 studies across 54 countries, this paper synthesizes evidence on private returns to schooling. Quasi-experimental estimates imply an average causal return of about 10 % per year of education, with instrumental-variables (IV) estimates exceeding ordinary least squares (OLS) in roughly 80 % of cases. The IV-OLS gap is larger in lower- and middle-income countries. We interpret this pattern as reflecting high marginal retu…
Learning during the pandemic
School closures induced by the Covid-19 pandemic led to concerns about students’ learning. This article evaluates the effect of school closures on students’ learning in Uzbekistan, using a unique dataset that allowed for the assessment of change in learning over time. The findings show that test scores in mathematics (math) for grade-5 students in the country improved over time by 0.29 standard deviations, despite school closures. Students assess…
Evaluation of achievement change in Egypt using PIRLS data
Improving Learning in Low- and Lower-Middle-Income Countries
The current challenge of education systems is learning. Across low-income countries (LICs) and lower-middle-income countries (LMCs), 62 % of 10-year-olds could not read at a minimally sufficient level in 2015. This study provides an overview of recent spending on education and its correlation with learning outcomes. We show that the relationship between education spending and learning is historically weak. From 2000 to 2015, LICs and LMCs increas…
Learning loss during Covid-19
Measuring human capital using global learning data
Human capital—that is, resources associated with the knowledge and skills of individuals—is a critical component of economic development 1,2 . Learning metrics that are comparable for countries globally are necessary to understand and track the formation of human capital. The increasing use of international achievement tests is an important step in this direction 3 . However, such tests are administered primarily in developed countries 4 , limiti…
The Covid-19 Cost of School Closures in Earnings and Income across the World
Social distancing requirements associated with COVID-19 have led to mass school and university closures worldwide. The article provides estimates of the economic loss associated with these closures by mapping lost learning to the lifetime reduction of the earnings of graduates from 205 high-, middle-, and low-income countries. While others have provided estimates of earnings losses due to COVID-19 school closures, to our knowledge ours is the fir…
Comprehensive private schooling for low-income children
Returns to investment in education
In the 60-plus year history of returns to investment in education estimates, there have been several compilations in the literature. This paper updates Psacharopoulos and Patrinos and reviews the latest trends and patterns based on 1120 estimates in 139 countries from 1950 to 2014. The private average global return to a year of schooling is 9% a year. Private returns to higher education increased, raising issues of financing and equity. Social re…
Exploring the Differential Impact of Public Interventions on Indigenous People
This paper uses experimental panel data for Mexico from 1997 to 2000 in order to test assumptions on the impact of a conditional cash transfer (CCT) program on child labor and school attendance, adding to the literature by emphasizing the differential impact on indigenous households. Using data from the CCT program, PROGRESA (later on known as OPORTUNIDADES), we investigate the interaction between child labor, education and indigenous households.…
Comparable Estimates of Returns to Schooling around the World
Rates of return to investments in schooling have been estimated since the late 1950s. In the 60-plus year history of such estimates, there have been several attempts to synthesize the empirical results to ascertain patterns. This paper presents comparable estimates, as well as a database, that use the same specification, estimation procedure, and similar data for 139 economies and 819 harmonized household surveys. This effort to compile comparabl…
Indigenous Peoples, Poverty, and Development
This book documents poverty systematically for the world's indigenous peoples in developing regions in Asia, Africa and Latin America. The volume compiles results for roughly 85 percent of the world's indigenous peoples. It draws on nationally representative data to compare trends in countries' poverty rates and other social indicators with those for indigenous sub-populations and provides comparable data for a wide range of countries all over th…
Empowering parents to improve education
The Determinants Of Wealth And Gender Inequity In Cognitive Skills In Latin America
Wealth and gender inequity in the accumulation of cognitive skills is measured as the association between subject competency and wealth and gender using the OECD s Programme for International Student Assessment. Wealth inequity is found to occur not through disparate household characteristics but rather through disparate school characteristics; little evidence is found of an association between wealth and competency within schools. Weak evidence …
Social Networks among Indigenous Peoples in Mexico
We examine the extent to which social networks among indigenous peoples in Mexico have a significant effect on a variety of human capital investment and economic activities, such as school attendance and work among teenage boys and girls, and migration, welfare participation, employment status, occupation, and sector of employment among adult males and females. Using data from the 10 percent population sample of the 2000 Population and Housing Ce…
Emerging Evidence on Vouchers and Faith-Based Providers in Education
No AccessDirections in Development - Human Development1 Feb 2013Emerging Evidence on Vouchers and Faith-Based Providers in EducationAuthors/Editors: Harry Anthony Patrinos, Quentin Wodon, Felipe Barrera-OsorioHarry Anthony Patrinos, Quentin Wodon, Felipe Barrera-Osoriohttps://doi.org/10.1596/978-0-8213-7976-9SectionsAboutPDF (1.1 MB) ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload CitationsTrack Citations ShareFacebookTwitterLinked In Abstract:While public-private…
The Role and Impact of Public-Private Partnerships in Education
The book examines five ways through which public-private contracts can help countries meet education goals. First, public-private partnerships can increase access to good quality education for all, especially for poor children who live in remote, underserved communities and for children in minority populations. Second, lessons for innovative means of financing education can be particularly helpful in post-conflict countries undergoing reconstruct…
Costs and benefits of bilingual education in Guatemala
The equity impact of public finance of private education provision in Côte d’Ivoire
Estimating the Number of Indigenous Peoples in Latin America
According to national statistics the indigenous population of Latin America is about 28 million. Other estimates range from 34 million (Gnerre, 1990) to 43 million (Barie, 2003).1 This wide range is the result of the many different methods used to calculate the size of the indigenous population and the varying definitions of ‘indigenous’. In some countries the discrepancy between official government statistics and the estimates provided by indige…
Indigenous Peoples, Poverty and Human Development in Latin America
Indigenous people constitute a large portion of Latin America's population and suffer from widespread poverty. This book provides the first rigorous assessment of changes in socio-economic conditions
Indigenous Peoples, Poverty and Human Development in Latin America
"Indigenous peoples constitute a large and distinct portion of Latin America's population. They are more likely to be poor than any other group. This book documents their socioeconomic situation, and trends over the last decade, and shows that while progress has been achieved in some social indicators, indigenous peoples continue to be poor. The book uses as a baseline information collected at the start of the International Decade of the World's …
Family size, schooling and child labor in Peru - An empirical analysis
Empowering parents to improve education
The Role of the Private Sector in Education in Vietnam
Indigenous Peoples, Poverty, and Development
This book documents poverty systematically for the world's indigenous peoples in developing regions in Asia, Africa and Latin America. The volume compiles results for roughly 85 percent of the world's indigenous peoples. It draws on nationally representative data to compare trends in countries' poverty rates and other social indicators with those for indigenous sub-populations and provides comparable data for a wide range of countries all over th…
Educational performance and child labor in Paraguay
The Cost of Discrimination in Latin America
Indigenous Language Skills and the Labor Market in a Developing Economy
Costs and benefits of bilingual education in Guatemala
Overeducation in Greece
Response to critiques of priorities and strategies for education
Socioeconomic and ethnic determinants of age-grade distortion in Bolivian and Guatemalan primary schools
Economic analysis of World Bank education projects and project outcomes
Producing educational materials in local languages
The Cost of Being Indigenous in Bolivia
It is well known that indigenous peoples worldwide are in an inferior economic and social position vis-d-vis the non-indigenous, or 'mainstream', population. Yet, not much documentation exists regarding their exact position. Recent research has documented some extreme condi? tions of poverty among indigenous groups in some Latin American countries. In this paper, individual data from a large-scale, household survey conducted in Bolivia in 1989 ar…
Improving Learning in Low- and Lower-Middle-Income Countries
The current challenge of education systems is learning. Across low-income countries (LICs) and lower-middle-income countries (LMCs), 62 % of 10-year-olds could not read at a minimally sufficient level in 2015. This study provides an overview of recent spending on education and its correlation with learning outcomes. We show that the relationship between education spending and learning is historically weak. From 2000 to 2015, LICs and LMCs increas…
The equity impact of public finance of private education provision in Côte d’Ivoire
The Cost of Being Indigenous in Bolivia
It is well known that indigenous peoples worldwide are in an inferior economic and social position vis-d-vis the non-indigenous, or 'mainstream', population. Yet, not much documentation exists regarding their exact position. Recent research has documented some extreme condi? tions of poverty among indigenous groups in some Latin American countries. In this paper, individual data from a large-scale, household survey conducted in Bolivia in 1989 ar…
Indigenous people and poverty in Latin America
No AccessStand Alone Books1 Feb 2013Indigenous people and poverty in Latin AmericaAn empirical analysisAuthors/Editors: George Psacharopoulos, Harry Anthony PatrinosGeorge Psacharopoulos, Harry Anthony Patrinoshttps://doi.org/10.1596/0-8213-2958-8SectionsAboutPDF (1.3 MB) ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload CitationsTrack Citations ShareFacebookTwitterLinked In Abstract:Indigenous people make up a large and distinct portion of Latin America's populatio…
Labour market discrimination against indigenous people in Peru
In this article, the component of the gross wage differential that can be explained by productivity‐enhancing attributes and that which is due to unexplained factors and labour market discrimination are empirically determined. Individual data from the 1991 Living Standards Measurements Survey of Peru are used to analyse labour market earnings and to decompose the gross earnings differential. A large portion of the indigenous/non‐indigenous wage g…
Educational performance and child labor in Paraguay
Response to critiques of priorities and strategies for education
Socioeconomic and ethnic determinants of age-grade distortion in Bolivian and Guatemalan primary schools
Family size, schooling and child labor in Peru - An empirical analysis
Overeducation in Greece
Producing educational materials in local languages
The Role of the Private Sector in Education in Vietnam
The Cost of Discrimination in Latin America
Indigenous Language Skills and the Labor Market in a Developing Economy
The Policy Analysis of Child Labor
The policy analysis of child labour, C. Grootaert, H.A. Patrinos modelling the determinants of child labour, C. Grootaert child labour in Cote d'Ivoire, K. Cartwright child labour in urban Bolivia, K.Cartwright, H.A.Patrinos child labour in the Philippines, C. Sakellariou, A. Lall policies to reduce child labour, C. Grootaert, H.A.Patrinos
Economic analysis of World Bank education projects and project outcomes
Nonstandard Work, Nonstandard Workers
Fran^oise Carre, Marianne A. Ferber, Lonnie Golden, and Stephen A. Herzenberg, eds., Nonstandard Work: The Nature and Challenges of Changing Employment Ar rangements (Urbana: Industrial Relations Research Association 2000) Christiaan Grootaert and Harry Anthony Patrinos, eds., The Policy Analysis of Child Labor: A Comparative Study (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1999) Hugh D. Hindman, Child Labor: An American History (Armonk, New York: M.E. Sharp…
Indigenous Peoples, Poverty and Human Development in Latin America
"Indigenous peoples constitute a large and distinct portion of Latin America's population. They are more likely to be poor than any other group. This book documents their socioeconomic situation, and trends over the last decade, and shows that while progress has been achieved in some social indicators, indigenous peoples continue to be poor. The book uses as a baseline information collected at the start of the International Decade of the World's …
Returns to investment in education
Returns to investment in education based on human capital theory have been estimated since the late 1950s. In the 40‐plus year history of estimates of returns to investment in education, there have been several reviews of the empirical results in attempts to establish patterns. Many more estimates from a wide variety of countries, including over‐time evidence, and estimates based on new econometric techniques, reaffirm the importance of human cap…
Estimating the Number of Indigenous Peoples in Latin America
According to national statistics the indigenous population of Latin America is about 28 million. Other estimates range from 34 million (Gnerre, 1990) to 43 million (Barie, 2003).1 This wide range is the result of the many different methods used to calculate the size of the indigenous population and the varying definitions of ‘indigenous’. In some countries the discrepancy between official government statistics and the estimates provided by indige…
Indigenous Peoples, Poverty and Human Development in Latin America
Indigenous people constitute a large portion of Latin America's population and suffer from widespread poverty. This book provides the first rigorous assessment of changes in socio-economic conditions
The equity impact of public finance of private education provision in Côte d’Ivoire
Emerging Evidence on Vouchers and Faith-Based Providers in Education
No AccessDirections in Development - Human Development1 Feb 2013Emerging Evidence on Vouchers and Faith-Based Providers in EducationAuthors/Editors: Harry Anthony Patrinos, Quentin Wodon, Felipe Barrera-OsorioHarry Anthony Patrinos, Quentin Wodon, Felipe Barrera-Osoriohttps://doi.org/10.1596/978-0-8213-7976-9SectionsAboutPDF (1.1 MB) ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload CitationsTrack Citations ShareFacebookTwitterLinked In Abstract:While public-private…
The Role and Impact of Public-Private Partnerships in Education
The book examines five ways through which public-private contracts can help countries meet education goals. First, public-private partnerships can increase access to good quality education for all, especially for poor children who live in remote, underserved communities and for children in minority populations. Second, lessons for innovative means of financing education can be particularly helpful in post-conflict countries undergoing reconstruct…
Costs and benefits of bilingual education in Guatemala
The Determinants Of Wealth And Gender Inequity In Cognitive Skills In Latin America
Wealth and gender inequity in the accumulation of cognitive skills is measured as the association between subject competency and wealth and gender using the OECD s Programme for International Student Assessment. Wealth inequity is found to occur not through disparate household characteristics but rather through disparate school characteristics; little evidence is found of an association between wealth and competency within schools. Weak evidence …
Social Networks among Indigenous Peoples in Mexico
We examine the extent to which social networks among indigenous peoples in Mexico have a significant effect on a variety of human capital investment and economic activities, such as school attendance and work among teenage boys and girls, and migration, welfare participation, employment status, occupation, and sector of employment among adult males and females. Using data from the 10 percent population sample of the 2000 Population and Housing Ce…
Economics (30 works) · Economic growth (24 works) · Political science (19 works) · Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare (19 works) · Demographic economics (16 works) · Indigenous (12 works) · Sociology (12 works) · Income, Poverty, and Inequality (11 works) · Geography (10 works) · Development economics (9 works)