Education Inequalities in Latin America and the Caribbean

Ivonne Acevedo, Raquel Fernández, Carmen Pages and Miguel Székely

No 13198, IDB Publications (Working Papers) from Inter-American Development Bank

Abstract: Education is a crucial asset for a countrys economic prospects and for its inhabitants. In addition to its direct impact on growth via the accumulation of human capital, it is a critical ingredient in producing an informed citizenry, enhancing their ability to obtain and exert human and political rights and their facility to adapt to changing environments (generated by, e.g., technological or climatic change) among other benefits. In this chapter, we study education inequality in LAC (both in quantity and quality), assess how it emerges and amplifies or dampens existing inequalities, and examine the interaction of education inequality with other forms of inequality, primarily income and labor market outcomes. Our analysis is based on primary data from multiple sources.

Keywords: Education and Inequality; Education and Economic Development; returns to education (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I24 I25 I26 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023-10
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Working Paper: Education Inequalities in Latin America and the Caribbean (2024)
Working Paper: Education inequalities in Latin America and the Caribbean (2023)
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DOI: 10.18235/0005244

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