An intergenerational effect of maternal (and not paternal) human capital on offspring’s human capital production is a mechanism that induces males and females to attain different education levels. This mechanism allows ...

An intergenerational effect of maternal (and not paternal) human capital on offspring’s human capital production is a mechanism that induces males and females to attain different education levels. This mechanism allows ...

In Latin America, the Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing represents a milestone in the history of the feminist and women's movements. Twenty years have passed and despite important achievements in gender equality, ...

The study of entrepreneurial intention sheds new light on the complex dynamics of entrepreneurial behavior. This research contributes to the academic debate by examining the gap in studies on entrepreneurial intention in ...

This paper studies gender differences in college applications in Chile. We use the revealed preferences of students for college major choice by taking advantage of Chile's Centralized Admission System, and estimate a nested ...

This issue of the Gender Dialogue focuses on two programmatic areas of ECLAC’s work over recent years, namely (i) integrating gender into macroeconomic policy and (ii) the use of gender indicators in public policy-making. ...