Inequality in Education: Evidence for Latin America

Guillermo Cruces, Carolina García Domench and Leonardo Gasparini
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Carolina García Domench: CEDLAS-UNLP

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Abstract: This paper provides original empirical evidence on the evolution of education inequality for all Latin American countries over the decades of 1990 and 2000. The analysis covers a wide range of issues on differences in educational outcomes and opportunities across the population, including inequality in years of education, gaps in school enrollment, wage skill differentials and public social expenditure. The evidence indicates a significant difference between the 1990s and the 2000s in terms of both the assessment of the equity of the education expansion and its impact on the income distribution. In particular, the changes in the 2000s seem to have had a full equalizing impact on earnings given the more pro-poor pattern of the education upgrading and a more stable or even increasing relative demand for low skill labor.

Keywords: education; inequality; enrollment; wage premium; Latin America (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I24 I25 I28 O15 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 29 pages
Date: 2012-08
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Working Paper: Inequality in Education: Evidence for Latin America (2011)
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