Abstract

MARTINEZ-IRIARTE, Julián. EDUCACIÓN Y SALARIOS: UN ANÁLISIS DE SENSIBILIDAD. Estud. econ. [online]. 2022, vol.39, n.78, pp.5-31. ISSN 2525-1295.

This paper proposes a sensitivity analysis to analyze the relationship between edu- cation and wages. For different policies that increase the proportion of university graduates, we derive bounds for the quantiles of the counterfactua distribuition of wages. When then use these bounds to quantify the robustness of various concluisions of interest. Our empirical analysis suggests that an education policy targeting individuals in the lower quantiles of the wage distribution can contribute to reducing inequality even in the presence of considerable selection bias.

JEL Codes: C1, C31, C54, J3, I26.

Keywords : sensitivity analysis; quantiles; treatment effects; inequality.

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