How much might human capital policies affect earnings inequalities and poverty?

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 inc...

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Autor principal:	Behrman,Jere R
Lenguaje:	English
Publicado:	Universidad de Chile. Departamento de Economía 2011
Materias:	Inequality Poverty Human capital
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spelling	oai:scielo:S0718-528620110001000022011-07-25How much might human capital policies affect earnings inequalities and poverty?Behrman,Jere R Inequality Poverty Human capital 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.info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessUniversidad de Chile. Departamento de EconomíaEstudios de economía v.38 n.1 20112011-06-01text/htmlhttp://www.scielo.cl/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0718-52862011000100002en10.4067/S0718-52862011000100002
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description	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.
author	Behrman,Jere R
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title	How much might human capital policies affect earnings inequalities and poverty?
title_short	How much might human capital policies affect earnings inequalities and poverty?
title_full	How much might human capital policies affect earnings inequalities and poverty?
title_fullStr	How much might human capital policies affect earnings inequalities and poverty?
title_full_unstemmed	How much might human capital policies affect earnings inequalities and poverty?
title_sort	how much might human capital policies affect earnings inequalities and poverty?
publisher	Universidad de Chile. Departamento de Economía
publishDate	2011
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How much might human capital policies affect earnings inequalities and poverty?

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