Education and health may also have strong indirect impacts on economic growth
through their effect on the distribution of income, and education even more so through its
impact on health (for example, Behrman and Wolfe, 1987b provide evidence of the
impact of women’s education on family health and nutrition). As education and health
improve and become more broadly based, low income people are better able to seek out
economic opportunities. For example, a study of the relation between schooling, income
inequality and poverty in 18 countries of Latin America in the 1980s found that one
quarter of the variation in workers' incomes was accounted for by variations in schooling
attainment; it concludes that “clearly, education is the variable with the strongest impact
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on income equality'' (Psacharopolous et al., 1992). And a more equal distribution of
income is known to favor growth for both economic and political economy reasons