This paper provides original empirical evidence on the evolution of education inequality for the Latin American … outcomes and opportunities across the population, including inequality in years of education, gaps in school enrolment, wage … 2000s in terms of both the assessment of the equity of the education expansion and its impact on the income distribution …

This study examines the rise and fall in income inequality in Ecuador over the past two decades. Falling income …. The new leftist regime's social transfer policies helped reduce inequality further, but the continuation of Ecuador … inequality. …

students, a group of disadvantaged Black and mixed-race students from low-income families and with lower levels of education …

I evaluate the impact of the right to education from the passing of the Right to Education Act in India in 2009. This … Act guaranteed free education to children aged 6-14 years, including children with disabilities. Given that the school … study estimation and an interrupted time series research design and find that the Right to Education Act led to a 60 per …

-10 schools to create grade 1-10 'model' schools. Twenty-three per cent of government schools were eliminated in this education …

higher level of attained education and the smaller public sector to become associated with less inequality over time. These …In this paper, we investigate the long-term trend of consumption inequality in Mozambique. We show that an imbalanced … growth path disproportionally benefited the better-off and caused increasing inequality, especially in more recent years …

period. At the same time, inequality has risen over the past 20 years and spatial inequality, in both monetary and non …-monetary outcomes, remains an important concern. This increase in inequality is one reason why growth has not led to faster poverty …

, growth has been accompanied by substantial reduction in poverty, albeit increasing inequality. This development is explained …

This paper evaluates the impact of education on measured inequality across the wage distribution using pooled records … from the 2005 and 2010 Cameroon labour force surveys, wage equations and standard inequality measures. Returns to education … returns to education for the period 2005-10 largest for the 5th and 10th percentiles. Inequality decreased from the lower to …