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 …

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 …

Over the last two centuries, many countries experienced regime transitions toward democracy. We document this … democratic transition over a long time horizon. We use historical time series of income, education and democracy levels from 1870 … to 2000 to explore the economic factors associated with rising levels of democracy. We find that primary schooling, and …

there exists a distribution of resources such that democracy emerges in equilibrium, but there are distributions of … resources for which democracy is infeasible in equilibrium irrespective of the level of development. The model also delivers … results on the stability of democracy with regard to changes in the economic and demographic environment. The results are …

evaluate separately the impact of political institutions linked to democracy and suffrage and of those institutions more …