Labor Participation of Married Women in Colombia

Borradores de Economia
Number: 
357
Published: 
Classification JEL: 
C21, C23, C25, J22, J13
Keywords: 
Human capital agglomeration, Social returns, Private returns, Externalities, Uncertainty, Fiscal policy

A pseudo-panel was built to estimate the determinants of the labor participation decision of married women between 1984 and 2000. Past participation decisions, education level, labor income taxes, children between 1 and 2 years of age, and the presence of