Regional Human Development Report for Latin America and the Caribbean: Human Development and the Int

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Regional Human Development Report for Latin
America and the Caribbean Human Development
and the Inter-Generational Transmission of
Inequality

• Luis Felipe López Calva Isidro Soloaga

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Objectives

• (a) To document current trends of inequality in
  human development
• (b) To develop a distribution sensitive class of
  human development indices
• (c) To identify main determinants of the
  inter-generational transmission of inequality
• (d) To identify main binding constraints in
  education, health and labor market participation
• (e) To assess the political economy outcomes
  derived from the persistent inequality levels in
  LAC.
• The guiding principles of the report are its
  pertinence, analytical rigor, and specific policy
  relevance.

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Objectives

• (a) To document current trends of inequality in
  human development
• (b) To develop a distribution sensitive class of
  human development indices
• (c) To identify main determinants of the
  inter-generational transmission of inequality
• (d) To identify main binding constraints in
  education, health and labor market participation
• (e) To assess the political economy outcomes
  derived from the persistent inequality levels in
  LAC.
• The guiding principles of the report are its
  pertinence, analytical rigor, and specific policy
  relevance.

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(a) Current trends in inequality in LAC countries

• Income inequality since the 1990s
• Labor and non-labor income inequality
• Regional inequality and LAC in world perspective
• Inequality in education
• Inequality in health
• Inequality in infrastructure and services
• Group-based inequalities gender
• Group-based inequalities ethnicity/race

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Objectives

• (a) To document current trends of inequality in
  human development
• (b) To develop a distribution sensitive class of
  human development indices
• (c) To identify main determinants of the
  inter-generational transmission of inequality
• (d) To identify main binding constraints in
  education, health and labor market participation
• (e) To assess the political economy outcomes
  derived from the persistent inequality levels in
  LAC.
• The guiding principles of the report are its
  pertinence, analytical rigor, and specific policy
  relevance.

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(b) A new parametric class of HDI

• This new class includes the original HDI, as well
  as a family of distribution sensitive indices
  that satisfy all the basic properties for an
  index of human development.
• Empirical applications at the national and
  regional levels will show the importance of
  considering inequality issues.

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Objectives

• (a) To document current trends of inequality in
  human development
• (b) To develop a distribution sensitive class of
  human development indices
• (c) To identify main determinants of the
  inter-generational transmission of inequality
• (d) To identify main binding constraints in
  education, health and labor market participation
• (e) To assess the political economy outcomes
  derived from the persistent inequality levels in
  LAC.
• The guiding principles of the report are its
  pertinence, analytical rigor, and specific policy
  relevance.

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(c) To identify main determinants of the
inter-generational transmission of inequality

• Inequality of life chances (Jacques Joseph)
• Inequality of earnings opportunities (Jeremie)
• Determinants of income inequality (Sergio)
• The sociological approach (class, occupations)
  (Florencia)

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(in preparation) Contrasting EO and HD
approaches.

• Agency, aspirations ? outcomes
• (Sabina Debraj Garance)
• i) Infant mortality/morbidity
• ii) Child labor
• iii) Access to school
• iv) School progress
• v) Labor market entry characteristics for
  children and young adults

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Model (tentative)

• Yi is a given outcome
• Xk a vector of family background variables
• Al is a vector of measures for agency,
• Gp is a vector that measures aspirations gaps
• Surveys in 3-5 LAC countries

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Objectives

• (a) To document current trends of inequality in
  human development
• (b) To develop a distribution sensitive class of
  human development indices
• (c) To identify main determinants of the
  inter-generational transmission of inequality
• (d) To identify main binding constraints in
  education, health and labor market participation
• (e) To assess the political economy outcomes
  derived from the persistent inequality levels in
  LAC.
• The guiding principles of the report are its
  pertinence, analytical rigor, and specific policy
  relevance.

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(d) To identify main binding constraints in
education, health and labor market participation

• ECD inequities (David).
• Inequities in cognitive development (David)
• Health production functions (Marcelo)
• Education production functions (TBD). Education
  quality issues (Miguel).

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(in preparation)

• (a ) Ravi Kanburs paper on a framework for
  analyzing binding constraints (HRV)
• (b) Call for research proposals to estimate in
  LAC countries (deadline, August 31,08)
• Health production functions
• Education production functions

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Objectives

• (a) To document current trends of inequality in
  human development
• (b) To develop a distribution sensitive class of
  human development indices
• (c) To identify main determinants of the
  inter-generational transmission of inequality
• (d) To identify main binding constraints in
  education, health and labor market participation
• (e) To assess the political economy outcomes
  derived from the persistent inequality levels in
  LAC.
• The guiding principles of the report are its
  pertinence, analytical rigor, and specific policy
  relevance.

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(e) To assess the political economy outcomes
derived from the persistent inequality levels in
LAC
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Next steps

• Selecion of research proposals (Sept. 15th)
• Preparation for LACEA Meetings (end of November,
  Rio de Janeiro)
• Your final papers
• Framework for new papers
• Surveys in 3-5 LAC countries.