TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Méndez-Errico, Luciana
AU  - Ramos, Xavier
        TI  - Selection and Educational Attainment: Why Some Children Are Left Behind? Evidence from a Middle-Income Country
        PY  - 2019/Jan/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 12118
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/index.php/publications/dp12118
        AB  - We model schooling as a sequential process and examine why some children are left behind. We focus on the factors that explain selection at early stages of the education system. Our findings for Uruguay suggest that long-term factors, such as parental background or ethnicity matter across all education stages while the effect of short-term factors, such as family income, wear out as individuals progress in the education system, suggesting a severe selection process at early stages.
        KW  - schooling transition
KW  - selection
KW  - inequality
KW  - education
KW  - ethnicity
KW  - cognitive and non-cognitive abilities
KW  - sequential dynamic model
        ER  -