Female labor force participation has increased 10 percentage points between 1990 and 2010. This paper analyzes the possible determinants of this increase. Among those determinants are changes in education, family structure, fertility, as well as changes in socioeconomic environment including...

"Alrededor del mundo, los gobiernos eligen políticas económicas que distan mucho de las que promueven el bienestar social. Esto ciertamente aplica para América Latina. Durante más de doscientos años, los gobiernos de la región han fallado en proveer bienes y servicios públicos, han...

We investigate how economic inequality can persist in Latin America in the context of radical falls in political inequality in the last decades. Using data from Colombia, we focus on a critical facet of democratization - the entry of new politicians. We show that initial levels of inequality...