Latin America's Social Policy Challenge: Education, Social Insurance, Redistribution

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Improving Educational Outcomes in Developing Countries: Lessons from Rigorous Evaluations (2014, background): “Regions like Latin America fare much worse than their income levels would predict (Ganimian & Rocha, 2011; Hanushek & Woessmann, 2012; Levy & Schady, 2013).”
The Strugglers: The New Poor in Latin America? (2014, unknown): “27 Levy (2008) and Levy and Schady (2013) provide evidence that subsidies and social policies can encourage informality at lower levels of income because of their structure.”
Fiscal policy, inequality and the ethnic divide in Guatemala (2015, background): “Levy and Schady (2013) argue that the expansion of targeted cash transfers has been driven by three main factors: first, the emergence of more democratic regimes in the 1990s renewed political pressures to respond to unacceptable levels of poverty and inequality; second, greater macroeconomic stabil”
Banking on Trust: How Debit Cards Enable the Poor to Save More (2017, background): “Today, nearly one-fourth of Mexican households receive bene ts from Oportunidades (Levy and Schady, 2013).5 As it expanded to urban areas in 2002 2005, Oportunidades opened savings accounts in banks for bene ciaries in a portion of urban localities, and began depositing the transfers directly into…”