Between 2019 and 2020 I completed the second year of the "Erasmus Mundus" master's programme in Economic Growth and Development at Lund University in Sweden.

The mandatory courses of the program were Development of Emerging Economies & Advanced Analysis of Economic Change. My elective courses were "Advanced Public Economics", "Innovation for Sustainable Development", "Economics of Innovation" & "Consequences of Demographic Change". 

During this year I also presented my second thesis of the master's program entitled "Gender gaps and poverty traps in Mexico's labor markets", where I found results that contradict what is established in the current literature on gender gaps.  First, I did not find a gender gap in the labor participation of men and women in the informal sector. In addition, I found that the female labor participation gap was extremely high in Mexico. I consider that the non-existent gender gap in the informal sector is because there is an extremely high gender gap in female labor participation rates. My theory is that the gender gap in the informal sector will begin to appear as the gap in female labor participation closes.

Link to the thesis: bit.ly/38cargV