Education Inequalities in Latin America and the Caribbean

Raquel Fernandez, Carmen Pages, Miguel Szekely and Ivonne Acevedo

No 32126, NBER Working Papers from National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc

Abstract: Education is a crucial asset for a country’s 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 paper, 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.

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Date: 2024-02
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