Peña, Ximena

This paper attempts to explain the decrease and reversal of the education gap between males and females. The education decisions of heterogeneous agents are modelled as an assignment game with endogenous types. In the first stage agents choose their education level and in the second they…

We study the earnings gap against indigenous and afro-descendants, separately, and use the non-parametric decomposition approach proposed by Ñopo (2008) to understand the role of observable characteristics and historical legacies in explaining it. The earnings gap against indigenous workers is…