documenting the broad patterns of national and sub-national differences in income and inequality, building on the seminal … contributions of Engerman and Sokoloff (2000; 2002, 2005) and aiming to capture different dimensions of inequality. We then proceed … thematically, providing empirical evidence and summarizing the key recent studies on colonial institutions, slavery, land reform …

Estimating the effect of inequality on crime is challenging due to reverse causality and omitted variable bias. This … paper addresses these concerns by exploiting the fact that, as suggested by recent scholarly research, the legacy of slavery … is largely manifested in persistent levels of economic inequality. Municipality-level economic inequality in Colombia is …

ethnomathematics education program. This article describes and evaluates the impact of JADENKA (pronounced Ha-den-go), an intercultural … ethnomathematics intervention in preschool education through an RCT. The program was designed by a team of experts in early mathematics … magnitude of the impact on mathematics (0.12-0.18 s.d.) is comparable to other bilingual and intercultural bilingual education …

In this article we evaluate the effectiveness of ethnomathematics education among indigenous children: the JADENKÄ …

This chapter examines socioeconomic inequality in Latin America through the lens of race and ethnicity. We primarily … measures of race and ethnicity, we also draw on two additional measures from the Latin American Public Opinion Project (LAPOP …, income, and occupational disadvantages, even after controlling for their social origins. However, inequality and hierarchical …

majority racial groups that had during colonialism been highly segregated in terms of education, occupation, industry and … historical wage gaps still exist and are affected by the government in power. Therefore, this study provides evidence of race … development, using labour market survey data from 1999 to 2015. Despite its history, aggregate racial educational and occupational …

This paper documents disparities in cognitive development-as measured by a receptive vocabulary test-between children ….30-1.40 standard deviations), but also as the country with the highest persistence in cognitive development, as shown by the value …-added specification. The latter suggests fewer opportunities for convergence in cognitive development between rich and poor over time in …