In 2005 Chilean congress approved a bill that established a new funding tool for higher education funding through a "private system" of student loans (named CAE). The system aimed to support higher education inclusion among students with academic merits overcoming the lack of resources for ensuring access. Politicians have referred to this reform in higher education funding as a critical factor for expanding higher education enrollment. By its immediate results, it is a great strategy to cope with inequality and social mobility issues. However, there is little empirical evidence about labor market variables' overall effects, such as gender discrimination. This work attempts to estimate the new instrument's impact on the three standard measures of gender labor discrimination: labor participation, the gender wage gap, and the glass ceiling. The empirical strategy uses a difference-in-difference approach to provide estimates. The results indicate that the CAE policy changed women's labor market participation and contributed to close the gender pay gap in the labor market. However, the glass ceiling increased in the entire labor market, but not in the white-collar job market in specific.

2005 年，智利国会批准了一项法案，该法案通过学生贷款的“私人系统”（名为 CAE）建立了一种新的高等教育资助工具。该系统旨在支持有学业成绩的学生接受高等教育，以克服缺乏确保获得机会的资源。政界人士将高等教育经费改革称为扩大高等教育招生的关键因素。就其立竿见影的效果而言，这是应对不平等和社会流动问题的绝佳策略。然而，关于劳动力市场变量的整体影响的实证证据很少，例如性别歧视。这项工作试图估计新工具对性别劳动歧视的三个标准衡量标准的影响：劳动参与、性别工资差距、和玻璃天花板。经验策略使用差异中的差异方法来提供估计。结果表明，CAE 政策改变了女性劳动力市场的参与，并有助于缩小劳动力市场中的性别薪酬差距。然而，整个劳动力市场的玻璃天花板都在增加，但具体在白领就业市场却没有。