Educational Segregation and the Gender Wage Gap for Recent College Graduates in Colombia

Borradores de Economia
Number: 
695
Published: 
Classification JEL: 
J24, J31, J71
Keywords: 
Human capital agglomeration, Social returns, Private returns, Externalities, Uncertainty, Fiscal policy
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