Comments%20on%20Chernischovsky

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• Glad I am in something simple, like education
• Just comment on some things that are inherently
  interesting, a few that maybe cut across to
  education
• Partly have to admit did not 100 understand
• Some interesting questions
• The mail fault of Soviet system highlighted was
  missing the epidemiological transition towards
  chronic diseases? (LE 10 years less.)

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• Deep reasons for failure?
• Informational
• What if theyd known?
• Incentives
• Did other other relatively centralized systems
  also fail to see the transition quickly?

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• Current failure the same?
• Plus less on communicable?
• If same failure as before, but different reasons
  No coherent system whereas before there was a
  system but structural non-information and
  disincentives.
• What is polit econ?

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• Do we see this in education?
• Sure, though it varies
• Function assignment
• Indonesia fairly messy function assignment, even
  3-4 years after the big decentralization
  announced
• South Africa much clearer function assignment,
  much longer planning
• Time, vacillation also common
• Getting decentralization right can take a long
  time, case of Spain (or US!)
• The insight on the role of central level in
  assessing natural variation, but decentralization
  in having incentives to see it and do something,
  is also very useful and applies

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• On that last point central AND local views and
  incentives, to see AND act on natural variation
• Took quasi federal country, 9 provinces
• Look at pattern of education success as a
  function of both inputs and poverty
• First province by province,
• Then building up picture of whole country

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Now go back to province 1 and build up province
by province
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