Education Quality, Income Inequality, and Female Labor Force Participation in Brazil

John H.Y. Edwards ()
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John H.Y. Edwards: Tulane University

No 2409, Working Papers from Tulane University, Department of Economics

Abstract: This paper examines the impact of education quality on income inequality among men and on female labor force participation. I introduce a new dataset on local education expenditures for a 64-year period. By matching education spending to the time and place where each person went to school, the data allow for a much more granular measurement of human capital differences than measures like level of schooling or years of school attainment. They also permit measurement of human capital differences and evolution over a much longer time period than the data that are typically available. I show that differences in the quality of education received during childhood become significant determinants of income differences among fully employed adult men. In a finding that is new to the literature, I report that school quality differentials are significant determinants of how adult women allocate their time between domestic labor and formal wage work.

Keywords: Female Labor Force Participation; Women and Economic Development; Brazil; Education Quality; Income Distribution; Education (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D31 D63 H75 I24 I25 J16 J24 N16 O15 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024-07
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-dev, nep-gen, nep-his, nep-lam, nep-lma, nep-ltv and nep-ure
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