Article: Family background, gender and schooling in Mexico.

I. INTRODUCTION

The private and social benefits of schooling in developing and industrialised economies are widely recognised. Schooling has been convincingly linked to higher earnings, better health and nutrition, greater labour productivity, and faster economic growth [Psacharopoulos and Woodhall 1985; Schultz 1988]. Improvements in the level of broad-based educational attainment are also associated with greater economic equality [Birdsall, Ross and Sabot, 1995]. It is not surprising, then, that many countries have sought to promote schooling. Recently Mexico announced that it would extend compulsory schooling from six to nine years. Nine years of schooling is ...

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