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• The Impact of the 1999 Education Reform in Poland

  Patrinos, Harry Anthony; Jakubowski, Maciej; Wisniewski, Jerzy; Porta, Emilio Ernesto (2012-03-19)

  Increasing the share of vocational
 secondary schooling has been a mainstay of development
 policy for decades, perhaps nowhere more so than in formerly
 socialist countries. The transition, however, led to
 significant restructuring of school systems, including a
 declining share of vocational students. Exposing more
 students to a general curriculum could improve academic
 abilities. This paper analyzes Poland s significant
 improvement in international achievement tests and the
 restructuring of the education system that expanded general
 schooling to test the hypothesis that delayed vocational
 streaming improves outcomes. Using propensity score matching
 and differences-in-differences estimates, the authors show
 that delayed vocationalization had a positive and
 significant impact on student performance on the order of
 one standard deviation.
• Records of the Bureau of Vocational Information, 1908-1932

  Bureau of Vocational Information (New York, N.Y.) (Schlesinger, 1908-1932)

  Papers collected by the Bureau on occupations for women include talks given in a course, "Woman in Industry: Her Opportunities in Business Today," given at New York University in 1915-1916; correspondence and clippings; and questionnaires from women around the United States in the arts, business, engineering, law, medical professions, personnel, religious, secretarial, and social work, the sciences, and statistics. The papers discuss the requirements, training, and advantages of the various fields and include material used by Beatrice Doerschuk in preparing the manuscript, "The Woman Secretary".
• The Impact of Vocational Schooling on Human Capital Development in Developing Countries

  Zhang, Linxiu; Shi, Yaojiang; Huang, Xiaoting; Yi, Hongmei; Chu, James; Loyalka, Prashant; Song, Yingquan; Wei, Jianguo (World Bank, Washington, DC, 2015-08)

  A number of developing countries are
 currently promoting vocational education and training (VET)
 as a way to build human capital and strengthen economic
 growth. The primary aim of this study is to understand
 whether VET at the high school level contributes to human
 capital development in one of those countries—China. To
 fulfill this aim, a longitudinal data on more than 10,000
 students in vocational high school (in the most popular
 major, computing) and academic high school from two
 provinces of China are used. First, estimates from
 instrumental variables and matching analyses show that
 attending vocational high school (relative to academic high
 school) substantially reduces math skills and does not
 improve computing skills. Second, heterogeneous effect
 estimates also show that attending vocational high school
 increases dropout, especially among disadvantaged
 (low-income or low-ability) students. Third, vertically
 scaled (equated) baseline and follow-up test scores are used
 to measure gains in math and computing skills among the
 students. The results show that students who attend
 vocational high school experience absolute reductions in
 math skills. Taken together, the findings suggest that the
 rapid expansion of vocational schooling as a substitute for
 academic schooling can have detrimental consequences for
 building human capital in developing countries such as China.