What happens to children during the early years is recognized to be very important for their long run development. It is also increasingly clear that the skills that are relevant for economic success and more generally well-being are multidimensional, including different types of socioemotional...

This paper presents evidence of the effects of gender diversity on firm innovation outcomes and their productivity in Colombian manufacturing firms, by extending a CDM model to include women’s participation in science, technology and innovation (STI) activities and production processes. The...

Over one million firms around the world have adopted a Quality Management System (QMS) that conforms to ISO 9001 certification in 2015 and recent figures show that certifications have rapidly increased in emerging economies. ISO 9001 is considered a signal of high quality for products or...

We study the presence of capitalization of local fiscal and social policies in house prices. The local property tax and the public utility fees in Bogotá depend on a classification of all blocks in the city into six groups (estratos socioeconómicos) - a redistributive system in which some...

We investigate the effect of education Conditional Cash Transfer programs (CCTs) on teenage pregnancy. Our main concern is with how the size and sign of the effect may depend on the design of the program. Using a simple model we show that an education CCT that conditions renewal on school...

Spanish abstract: El administrador de hecho es un concepto que no se conoció en la legislación colombiana hasta antes del año 2008. Es una de las figuras novedosas y de exclusiva aplicación para la Sociedad por Acciones Simplificada (S.A.S.) que se creó con la ley 1258 de 2008. Al ser una...