private education and health systems has raised concerns about the future of an already fragmented social contract in Latin … America. In this chapter, we examine the evolution of the use of private education and private health insurance in selected … with some nuances. Wealthy households are mostly opting out of the public education system, and the middle-class is split …

School-based management programs aim to improve education outcomes by involving parents in allocation decisions about …

This paper characterizes household spending in education using microdata from income and expenditure surveys for 12 … in education while Bolivia, Brazil and Paraguay have the lowest. Tertiary education is the most important form of … spend more in the education of household members. Households with both parents present and those with a female main income …

This paper explores families' investment in skills development through education in a high-inequality, low-education … quality country such as Mexico, comparing it to a lower-inequality, higher-quality education country such as the United States … years and different methodological approaches. Of particular interest is the analysis of education expenditure patterns …

reduces the employment level, the share of employment in the population, the hourly wage, the interindustry wage premium, and … the share of informal employment. The industry-level results indicate that a rise in import penetration from either China … or the rest of the world (ROW) reduced the employment level, hourly wage, and share of informal employment while …

This paper analyses (age-adjusted) employment rates by gender and education. We find that malefemale gender gaps and … high-low education gaps in employment vary markedly across European Union (EU) countries and regions, with larger gaps … education gaps in employment between high and lower education levels would raise the employment rate in the EU for the year 2022 …