about one's own ability, and contemporaneous shocks. We estimate the model using administrative panel data from Chile that … arrested by age 18 and a 13% increase in the fraction of those consistently enrolled throughout primary and secondary education. …

, including education, health care and housing. This incremental spending will need to be carried out in a cost-efficient manner … to make sure that it yields commensurate improvements in social outcomes. Chile’s health indicators show that it fares … education, where secondary and tertiary educational attainment remain low, despite a significant increase over the years, and …

Chile. These results reflect the need for targeted education policies for ethnic groups in two ways: compensation (or …This study searches for suggestive evidence of an ethnic inequality trap in educational attainment in Brazil and Chile … assess certain conditions which might imply its existence. The main results indicate that while average education and upward …

This paper assesses the status of education, both quantity and quality, in Bihar in both absolute terms and relative to … other states in India. It then performs a regression exercise using a panel data of Indian states to identify the correlates … of educational outcomes. It also surveys the broader literature on education policies which provides a perspective on the …

problem. In India both men and women with more education live in households with greater consumption per capita. Yet in …Despite the evidence for high returns to education at an individual level, large increases in education across the … developing world have brought disappointing returns in aggregate. This paper shows that the same pattern holds in India by …

This paper assesses the status of education, both quantity and quality, in Bihar in both absolute terms and relative to … other states in India. It then performs a regression exercise using a panel data of Indian states to identify the correlates … of educational outcomes. It also surveys the broader literature on education policies which provides a perspective on the …