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  • The unequal lag in Latin American schooling since 1900: follow the money

  • Peter H. Lindert
  • Journal:
    Revista de Historia Economica - Journal of Iberian and Latin American Economic History / Volume 28 / Issue 2 / September 2010
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    01 September 2010, pp. 375-405
    Print publication:
    September 2010

  • Focusing on education–income anomalies, in which a richer country delivers less education than a poorer country, seems a promising way to harvest a part of the rich history that does not lend itself to econometrics. To test the chain of alleged causation from unequal power and wealth to poor schooling, one must follow the public money, or lack of it, in as many contexts as the data will allow. Public funding for mass schooling is the hitherto untested middle link in the chain. The key to Latin America’s poor schooling was the failure to supply tax money, not gender discrimination or any shortfall in market demand for skills. The most glaring anomalies were the Venezuelan and Argentine failures to supply the levels of tax support for mass schooling that their high income could have afforded.