For the standardized Test of Higher Education Quality (ECAES) taken in 2007 by undergraduate economics students in Colombia, we apply the DiNardo, Fortin, and Lemieux (1996) decomposition technique to estimate what would be the distribution of scores for student in non-accredited programs if...

We analyze the participation and childcare decisions made by mothers in two-parent households with children aged 0-12 in the Netherlands, paying special attention to the role of attitudes regarding work and care. In a multinomial logit model we distinguish between not working, a small parttime...

A brief review of the aging of the Mexican population, the high labor force participation of elderly, and the lack of retirement pensions, is followed by a causal empirical analysis using a panel data set (Mexican Health and Aging Study, MHAS) of Mexicans aged 50 and more. We find that the labor...