Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/173848 
Year of Publication: 
2017
Series/Report no.: 
IDB Working Paper Series No. IDB-WP-775
Publisher: 
Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), Washington, DC
Abstract: 
This paper explores families' investment in skills development through education in a high-inequality, low-education quality country such as Mexico, comparing it to a lower-inequality, higher-quality education country such as the United States. The paper uses a series of high-quality Household Income and Expenditure Surveys for both countries spanning around 20 years and different methodological approaches. Of particular interest is the analysis of education expenditure patterns along the income distribution. Policy implications for both cases are discussed. While in Mexico stimulating private spending in education through public resources might be regressive, the opposite might be the case in the United States.
Subjects: 
Education
Inequality
Private spending
Skills formation
JEL: 
D1
I2
J21
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Creative Commons License: 
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Document Type: 
Working Paper

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