a small poverty-reducing effect of several potential scenarios, including education upgrading, sectoral transformations …, labor informality reduction, gender and race wage gap closing, and changes in the structure of the returns to education …

This paper examines the argument for public provision of certain private goods, like education and health, based on … distribution of these goods. A given quality of education or health services can be consumed for free in the public sector, but …

primary and secondary education, and to some services (water, sanitation, electricity, cell phones). However, there is an … increasing gap between the rich and the poor in the access to tertiary education, and important differences in the access to new …

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

skilled and semi-skilled workers over the period. Whereas the returns to secondary education fell over time, in contrast, the … returns to tertiary education display a remarkable changing pattern common to almost all economies: significant increase in … workers with tertiary education and the rest. …

on the impact of COVID-19 and school closures on education in Latin America by exploiting harmonized microdata from a …

series for several indexes of relative and absolute intergenerational education mobility for 18 Latin American countries over …