Seminario CEDE - Seema Jayachandran

Societal norms about gender roles contribute to the economic disadvantages facing women in many developing countries. This paper evaluates a school-based intervention in India that engaged adolescents in classroom discussions about gender equality for two and a half years with the goal of eroding their support for restrictive gender norms. Using a randomized controlled trial, we find that the program made attitudes 0.18 standard deviations more supportive of gender equality, or, equivalently, converted 16% of participants’ regressive views.

Sesión de cierre: Comisión de Estudio del Sistema Tributario Territorial

Apertura a cargo:

Alberto Carrasquilla, Ministro de Hacienda y Crédito Público.

Christine Büsser Mauron, Encargada de Negocios Embajada de Suiza en Colombia.

Presentación - Diagnóstico y recomendaciones de la Comisión de Estudio del Sistema Tributario Territorial.

Hernando Zuleta - Secretario Técnico de la Comisión.

Panel “¿Cómo fortalecer la descentralización a partir del sistema tributario territorial?”

Panelistas:

Beatriz Arbeláez – Exsecretaria de Hacienda de Bogotá