How far is the world away from ensuring that every child obtains the basic skills needed to be internationally … competitive? And what would accomplishing this mean for world development? Based on the micro data of international and regional … skills for 159 countries that cover 98.1% of world population and 99.4% of world GDP. We find that at least two-thirds of the …

Education is a crucial asset for a country's economic prospects and for its inhabitants. In addition to its direct … (generated by, e.g., technological or climatic change) among other benefits. In this paper, we study education inequality in LAC … interaction of education inequality with other forms of inequality, primarily income and labor market outcomes. Our analysis is …

This paper examines the education literature through the lens of sorting. It argues that how individuals sort across …. It discusses the implications of different education finance systems for sorting and analyzes the efficiency and welfare …

In Latin America--the world's most unequal region--non-white rural populations disproportionately suffer from Chagas … (racial) income inequality, the intergenerational transmission of low human capital, and burdens on the world's largest …