A Widening Gap? A Gender-Based Analysis of Performance on the Colombian High School Exit Examination

Luz Abadia Alvarado and Gloria Bernal

Revista de Economía del Rosario, 2017, vol. 20, issue 1, No 17958, 5-31

Abstract: In this article, we provide evidence that girls underperform boys with similar characteristics on the Colombian high school exit examination. Using the quantile regression technique, we find a significant gender gap favoring boys, which widens along the distribution. The Juhn-Murphy-Pierce decomposition shows that personal, family, and school characteristics explain a small part of the gap whereas differences in returns play an important role. In addition, we show that the observed gap differs significantly by administrative regions, suggesting that specific characteristics of each region could be influencing girls’ performance.

Keywords: Gender gap; exit examination; Juhn-Murphy-Pierce descomposition (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: A14 A21 C21 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
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