Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/299472 
Year of Publication: 
2023
Series/Report no.: 
IDB Working Paper Series No. IDB-WP-01538
Publisher: 
Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), Washington, DC
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 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.
Subjects: 
Education and Inequality
Education and Economic Development
Returns to Education
JEL: 
I24
I25
I26
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Creative Commons License: 
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Document Type: 
Working Paper

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