世界银行：南亚的机会不平等：没有消费收益的教育收益之谜（英文版）

More than two decades of sustained economic growth in South Asia brought significant reductions in poverty, yet inclusive social progress has remained elusive. Using a pseudo-panel approach with a large-scale harmonized dataset of 20 million observations across seven South Asian countries, this paper traces the evolution of inequality of opportunity across cohorts born between 1950s and 1990s for three outcomes: education, labor markets, and consumption. The findings show substantial improvem