model explains the economic origins of culture. It was no accident that the intricate steps of tango emerged in the shabby …

(i.e. skill or education) rather than through worker-industry affiliation. This Paper exploits drastic trade … liberalizations in Colombia in the 1980s and 1990s to investigate the relationship between protection and industry wages. Using the …

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 …. We identify three main channels through which the wage distribution was affected: increasing returns to college education … to education, and changes in industry premiums and informality alone cannot fully explain the increase in wage inequality …

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 …