the household or the outcomes of these investments. Results using data from Colombia suggest that family size has negative …

This paper surveys gender earnings gaps in Colombia from 1994 to 2006, using matching comparisons to examine the extent …

Forty years of low-intensity internal armed conflict has made Colombia home to the world's second largest population of …

collected one and six years after the earthquake. Colombia provides a unique setting for our study because the government …

This paper estimates the effect of enrollment in a large scale anti-poverty program in Colombia, Familias en Acción (FA … mechanisms, as the laws recently passed by the Colombian government, that avoid successful anti-poverty schemes from being …

performance of a recently developed cross-survey imputation method to estimate poverty for a sample of refugees in Colombia … included, inconsistencies between different data sources could interfere with comparable poverty estimates. We test the …, combining household income surveys collected by the Government of Colombia and administrative data collected by the United …

better average living standards than otherwise similar districts: larger household consumption, lower poverty rate, and …

role. We also find four types of poverty traps, associated with large initial household size, poor initial education, poor …