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Education Inequalities in Latin America and the Caribbean

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  • Raquel Fernández
  • Carmen Pagés
  • Miguel Szekely
  • Ivonne Acevedo

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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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  • Raquel Fernández & Carmen Pagés & Miguel Szekely & Ivonne Acevedo, 2024. "Education Inequalities in Latin America and the Caribbean," NBER Working Papers 32126, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
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    • O15 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development - - - Economic Development: Human Resources; Human Development; Income Distribution; Migration

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