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differently to the one plan versus the other. Using the progressive roll-out of the unified payment system by firm size, we show …
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Forty years of low-intensity internal armed conflict has made Colombia home to the world's second largest population of …
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collected one and six years after the earthquake. Colombia provides a unique setting for our study because the government …
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the household or the outcomes of these investments. Results using data from Colombia suggest that family size has negative …
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This paper estimates the effect of enrollment in a large scale anti-poverty program in Colombia, Familias en Acción (FA …
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This paper surveys gender earnings gaps in Colombia from 1994 to 2006, using matching comparisons to examine the extent …
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This paper investigates the impact of working while in school on learning outcomes through the use of a unique micro … learning outcomes is addressed through the use of a difference-in-difference estimator and it is shown that the results are … robust. A negative and significant effect of working on learning outcomes in both math and Portuguese is found. The effects …
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understand better how subjects with different cognitive abilities learn differently, we estimate a structural model of learning … ability to that of character skills, and find that both cognition and personality affect behavior and learning. More agreeable …
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We propose an integrated framework to discuss the empirical literature on the local determinants of agglomeration effects. We start by presenting the theoretical mechanisms that ground individual and aggregate empirical specifications. We gradually introduce static effects, dynamic effects, and...
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This paper develops a conceptual framework that can explain why economic development goes along with increases in body weight and obesity rates. We first introduce the concept of novelty consumption, which refers to an increase in food availability due to trade or innovation. Then we study how...
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