This dissertation contains three essays. The first and second essays examineintergenerational mobility in earnings in Brazil using a data set spanning three generations. I use data from PNAD{a nationally representative household survey inBrazil. I build a three-generations data set consisting of...

This thesis compares two datasets, the Science and Engineering Indicators 2006 (SEI)and the 1993 National Survey of College Graduates (NSCG), and looks at the impact of sexon full-time annual salary while controlling for different variables. The SEI provides a studybased on data from 1999 about...

Women, on average, are found in systematically different careers than men. Thereason for this phenomenon is not fully understood, in part because expectations playa vital role in the process of career choice. Different religious groups have differentbeliefs on the importance of child bearing, so...

We examine levels and trends of labor market outcomes for women in the 1990’s using household survey data for 18 Latin American countries covering several years per country. The outcomes we analyze include labor force participation rates, the distribution of employment of women across sectors...