Unequal Opportunities of Human Capital Investment from Different Socio-Economic Origins in Mexico 2006, 2014, and 2022.

Rosa-Elvira Cedillo-Villar, Universidad Rosario Castellanos
Yuliana-Gabriela Román-Sánchez, Universidad Autónoma del Estado de México

The objective of this paper is to understand how socioeconomic inequality affects the human capital investment in Mexico at household level. This research project is using the National Transfer Account (NTA) and Human Development Index (HDI) approaches to show that the opportunities of investing on education is restricted by individual and contextual socioeconomic inequalities. The main claim is that HDI can make it possible to analyze different patterns of human capital investment, income and consumption by unequal subpopulation in Mexico for 3 periods. The main data sources are the Mexican Survey of Household Income and Expenditure Survey (ENIGH) and the National Accounts System of Mexico (SCNM); Both from the Mexican Institute of Geography and Statistics. The principal contribution of this project is to incorporate the inequality analysis perspective in the National Transfer Account Approach. It is relevant to note that some Mexican specificities about transfer behavior on the economic life cycle deficit could be explained by the inclusion of an inequality dimension. Consequently, studying how inequality affects the possibility of human capital investment throughout the economic life cycle is relevant to understanding the specificity of intergenerational transfers flow in Mexico and analyzing gaps between people from various socioeconomic origins.

Keywords: Human Capital, Education, and Work, Inequality, Disadvantage and Discrimination, Economic Demography, Population Ageing

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