Retornos de la educación en Ecuador: el rol del capital social familiar y las diferencias territoriales

Abstract

In this study we aim at estimating the economic return to education with a territorial perspective.Furthermore, we aim at identifying the effect of the family’s social capital, proxied by language of parents,on the economic returns to education. Results show that education provides different returns to individualsthat differ by their family backgrounds, with a significant disadvantage on children whose parents speakan indigenous language. We observe that the territory can contribute to these disparities by up to 7%.