Seminar
Hugo Ñopo
Assistant Professor, Economics
"The Measurement of Gender Wage Gaps. Regressions vs. Matching Estimators"
The analysis of gender wage gaps has been included in the economists' research agenda for many years. In 1973, Alan Blinder and Ron Oaxaca proposed a technique to decompose those wage gaps using linear regressions. With such decomposition, the gender differences in wages can be analyzed as two components: one that is attributable to gender differences in human capital and another that cannot. With the newly available computing tools, it is now possible to refine the Blinder-Oaxaca decomposition using matching comparison techniques. In the seminar, we will discuss the traditional Blinder-Oaxaca approach and compare it to the matching estimators. The seminar will only assume the audience is comfortable with an intuitive understanding of expected values.
Tuesday, October 5, 2004
Warner 202
3:15 p.m.
Refreshments at 3:00 p.m.
All are welcome to attend!