This paper analyzes the link between young people's sense (locus) of control over their lives and their investments in education. We find that young people with a more internal locus of control have a higher probability of finishing secondary school and, conditional on completion, meeting the...

Poco se sabe en Colombia acerca de las competencias académicas de los maestros. Este documento investiga sobre el estándar académico de las personas que cursan y se gradúan de programas superiores en educación. Los resultados indican que existe una relación inversa entre el desempeño en...

In this paper we show the importance of subject of degree in explaining the gender wage gap in Colombia. In order to minimize the influence of gender differences in experience, promotions, and job changes on the wage gap, we focus on college graduates who have a formal job and who have been in...

This paper examines the non-reversal of fortune thesis proposed by Acemoglu, Johnson, and Robinson (2002) in the light of the Colombian experience over the last 500 years. Using a total of 14 national population censuses and the record of tributary Indians in 1559, it is found that the...

This paper explores the relationship between central bank independence and inflation in Latin America, using as a case study the experience of Colombia (1923-2008). Since its creation, in 1923, Colombia´s central bank has undergone several reforms that have changed its objectives and degree of...

The average height of Colombian women increased 8.95 cm between 1905 and 1985 and of men 8.96 cm in the same time period. Thus the country was a success story according to international standards in this respect. The information for the adult height of Colombians born between 1905 and 1985 was...

Since the late 1970’s there has been a growing interest among economic historians in the study of the behavior of height over time, as an alternative method for measuring the standard of living.1 Adult height reflects the net nutritional status of a person during the years of physical growth,...

This paper studies the fiscal revenues of Cartagena de Indias, the main port of the Viceroyalty of New Granada during the colonial period and one of the principal military bastions of Spain in the Caribbean in the eighteenth century.1 The period analyzed extends from 1751 to 1810.

Using data from the 2010 Colombia Demographic and Health Survey and of the National Survey of the Nutritional Situation in Colombia (ENDS-ENSIN), we analyzed the evolution of the height for the Colombian birth cohorts in the period 1946-1992 by ethnic groups defined through self-classification....

Como determinar si el peso está sobrevaluado o subvaluado Introducción En el período 1991-1994 se ha presentado una caída de la tasa de cambio real en Colombia, En efecto, entre 1991-1993 la tasa de cambio real del peso colombiano frente a dieciocho monedas se revaluó en 6.5% (véase cuadro...