High income inequality has become a barrier to economic development for emerging economies. Education is commonly seen as a way to decrease income inequality; however, the empirical evidence is not convincing. By focusing on school performance, we take advantage of spatial econometrics to estimate a long‐run relationship showing that income inequality can be reduced by increases in school performance. In particular, our results show that increases in school performance at early stages of educational levels and using mathematics as the subject goal can decrease income inequality in the long run. We use the case of Chile, which presents high income inequality and low school performance compared to similar nations.

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从长远来看，学校表现对收入不平等的影响分析：智利市政当局的应用

高收入不平等已成为新兴经济体经济发展的障碍。教育通常被视为减少收入不平等的一种方式；然而，经验证据并不令人信服。通过关注学校表现，我们利用空间计量经济学来估计长期关系，表明收入不平等可以通过提高学校表现来减少。特别是，我们的结果表明，从长远来看，在教育水平的早期阶段提高学校表现并以数学为学科目标可以减少收入不平等。我们使用智利的案例，与类似国家相比，智利的收入不平等程度很高，学校表现也很差。