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Educational reform and labor market outcomes: the case of Argentina's Ley Federal de Ecucacion

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  • Alzua, Maira Laura
  • Gasparini, Leonardo
  • Haimovich, Francisco

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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 unraveling the causal effect of the reform. The estimations from difference-indifference 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. En los noventa Argentina implementó una reforma educativa (la Ley Federal de Educación – LFE) que implicó principalmente la extensión de la educación obligatoria en dos años adicionales. El timing en la implementación fue sustancialmente diferente entre provincias, lo cual provee una fuente de identificación del efecto causal de la reforma. Las estimaciones de modelos de diferencias dobles sugieren que la LFE tuvo un impacto global positivo pero moderado sobre los resultados educativos y laborales. El impacto sobre los jóvenes pobres fue pequeño en términos educativos y nulo en términos laborales.
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  • Alzua, Maira Laura & Gasparini, Leonardo & Haimovich, Francisco, 2012. "Educational reform and labor market outcomes: the case of Argentina's Ley Federal de Ecucacion," PEP Policy Briefs 164619, Partnership for Economic Policy (PEP).
  • Handle: RePEc:ags:peppbr:164619
    DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.164619
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    • I2 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Education
    • I3 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Welfare, Well-Being, and Poverty

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