Author | dc.contributor.author | Behrman, Jere R. | |
Admission date | dc.date.accessioned | 2013-09-10T19:35:18Z | |
Available date | dc.date.available | 2013-09-10T19:35:18Z | |
Publication date | dc.date.issued | 2011-06 | |
Cita de ítem | dc.identifier.citation | Estudios de Economía. Vol. 38 No. 1, Junio 2011. Págs. 9-41 | en_US |
Identifier | dc.identifier.issn | 0304-2758 | |
Identifier | dc.identifier.uri | https://repositorio.uchile.cl/handle/2250/128471 | |
Abstract | dc.description.abstract | Economic inequality and poverty have persisted in Latin America despite important
changes in political and policy regimes. This paper explores the relationship
between various human capital programs aimed to reduced poverty and how
improvements of those in poverty in the left tail of the earning income distribution
are likely to reduce inequality. First it reviews some recent benefit/cost estimates
for human capital intervention in LAC, suggesting some investments in which the
returns appear quite high. Then it turns over to how much increases in schooling
attainment targeted to the poor would reduce poverty and income inequality. This
is illustrated empirically using the 2004 Chilean Social Protection Survey data.
Alternative simulations suggest significant impacts of well targeted increases
in schooling attainment on reducing poverty and inequality. | en_US |
Lenguage | dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
Publisher | dc.publisher | Universidad de Chile. Facultad de Economía y Negocios | en_US |
Keywords | dc.subject | Inequality | en_US |
Título | dc.title | How much might human capital policies affect earnings inequalities and poverty? | en_US |
Title in another language | dc.title.alternative | ¿Cuánto afectan las políticas en capital humano a la desigualdad del ingreso y a la pobreza? | en_US |
Document type | dc.type | Artículo de revista | |