Este documento es producto del Convenio entre Fedesarrollo y el Ministerio del Transporte. Tiene el propósito de definir una batería de indicadores del sector transporte que permita evaluar y hacer seguimiento al sector en Colombia. El ejercicio está motivado por los problemas de calidad que...

"El principal resultado del estudio muestra que frente al crecimiento del transporte aéreo y su impacto en la economía colombiana, las polí-ticas públicas, especialmente las relacionadas con la infraestructura, no han respondido de manera adecuada para cerrar los cuellos de botella e...

This study investigates whether interstate differences in welfare benefits affected destination choices of low-income households in the United States during the 1985-90 period. It considers place-to-place migration decisions of poor single-parent females within a conditional logit framework. The...

Este documento expone los resultados del cálculo del índice para 2011 y 2012, su robustez y un análisis de las relaciones estadísticas existentes entre los indicadores, los componentes y los pilares del índice, así como las relaciones existentes entre resultados de los municipios. Este...

El índice sintético de la Política Nacional de Consolidación y Reconstrucción Territorial es una herramienta diseñada por Fedesarrollo para medir y monitorear los avances de los municipios en el proceso de consolidación. La información que genera es un insumo básico para el proceso de...

A recursive system of ordered self assessed health (SAH) and a binary indicator of obesity were used to investigate the impact of socioeconomic and environmental factors on health and obesity in the predominantly rural Appalachian state of West Virginia. Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance...

Despite comprising nearly 10% of the nation’s nursing home population, little is known about the quality of care provided by nursing homes located in rural Appalachia. However, anecdotal evidences suggests that the economic disadvantages associated with the Appalachian region may lead to...

This study investigates whether interstate differences in welfare benefits affected destination choices of low-income households in the United States during the 1985-90 period. It considers place-to-place migration decisions of poor single-parent females within a conditional logit framework. The...

In this paper new evidence is presented of cross-border shopping in response to sales taxation. While several instructive studies provide estimates of the cross-border shopping effect, a unique opportunity is utilized to evaluate the effect of a large discrete change in sales tax policy. Using...

A spatial panel data analysis at the county level examines how individual food consumption, recreational, and lifestyle choices ? against a backdrop of changing demographic, built environment, and policy factors ? leads to obesity. Results suggest that obesity tends to be spatially autocorrelated;...