Narrow search
Showing 1 - 4 of 4
Cover Image
Why Internal Conflict Deteriorates State Capacity? Evidence from Colombian Municipalities
Cárdenas, Mauricio; Eslava, Marcela; Ramírez, Santiago - UNIVERSIDAD DE LOS ANDES-CEDE - 2013
Previous work has documented a negative correlation between internal conflict and state capacity. We attempt to shed light on mechanisms that underlie this relationship, using data for Colombian municipalities. We rely on identifying heterogeneous effects of different types of violent events on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010799010
Cover Image
Do Modern-Time Wars Make States? Panel Data Evidence
Cárdenas, Mauricio; Eslava, Marcela; Ramírez, Santiago - UNIVERSIDAD DE LOS ANDES-CEDE - 2013
We re-examine the view that wars make strong states, taking advantage of panel data to address two of the most obvious endogeneity concerns that arise in this context: initial conditions and persistence of state capacity. Our main message is that, in modern times, there is no evidence that wars...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010799024
Cover Image
Heterogeneity in Subjective Wellbeing: An Application to Occupational Allocation in Africa
Falco, Paolo; Maloney, William F.; Rijkers, Bob; … - UNIVERSIDAD DE LOS ANDES-CEDE - 2010
By exploiting recent advances in mixed (stochastic parameter) ordered probit estimators and a unique longitudinal dataset from Ghana, this paper examines the distribution of subjective wellbeing across sectors of employment. We find little evidence for the overall inferiority of the small firm...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010763914
Cover Image
Labor Market Rigidities and Informality in Colombia
Mondragón-Vélez, Camilo; Peña, Ximena; Wills, Daniel - UNIVERSIDAD DE LOS ANDES-CEDE - 2010
Informality is at the center of the economic debate in Colombia, fueled by the high level prevalent in the country and …-wage costs and the minimum wage on the size of the informal sector, the transition into and out of informality, and wages. Our … results indicate that rises in non-wage costs and the minimum wage, increase the probability of transition into informality as …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008522032