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Stratification and Public Utility Services in Colombia: Subsidies to Households or Distortion of Housing Prices?

Morales, Leonardo; Medina, Carlos - In: ECONOMIA JOURNAL OF THE LATIN AMERICAN AND CARIBBEAN … (2007)

Domiciliary public utility services in Colombia have a cross subsidy system which charges subsidized rates to the households who live in houses located in strata associated to low wealth levels, and taxed rates to the better off. We assesses the hypothesis that the flow of subsidies that...

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School Choice, Stratification and Information on School Performance: Lessons from Chile

McEwan, Patrick J.; Urquiola, Miguel; Vegas, Emiliana - In: ECONOMIA JOURNAL OF THE LATIN AMERICAN AND CARIBBEAN … (2008)

average student achievement and stratification.To shed additional light on this debate, we present new evidence from a …-has increased stratification while having little effect on average achievement. Second, we explore some factors that may explain why …

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