liberalizations in Colombia in the 1980s and 1990s to investigate the relationship between protection and industry wages. Using the …

1980’s and 1990’s - Brazil and Colombia - we examine the response of the informal sector to liberalization. In Brazil, we … find no evidence of a relationship between trade policy and informality. In Colombia, we do find evidence of such a …

We compare the treatment of Colombia in large cross-country conflict datasets with the information of the detailed …

We present a detailed, high-frequency dataset on the civil conflict in Colombia during the period 1988-2002. We briefly …

We investigate the effects of the drastic tariff reductions of the 1980s and 1990s in Colombia on the wage distribution …

offered financial education. Both programs included a voluntary after-school savings club that provided students with a locked … money box. After nine months, both programs had significant impacts on savings behavior relative to the control group …, mostly because children moved savings from home to school. We observed few other impacts. We do find that financial education …

relationship between aggregate fertility and household savings. First, we document that parents perceive children as an important … source of old-age support and that in partial equilibrium, increased fertility lowers household savings. Then, we construct … equilibrium effects can substantially overstate the effect of a change in aggregate fertility on households savings. …