There is a well-known debate about the roles of geography versus institutions in explaining the long-term development … Robinson (2001) was to address this last point by using settler mortality as an instrument for geography-induced endogenous … mechanisms from geography via institutions to economic development outcomes. In particular, we examine the determinants of …

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 …

also suggest the potential relevance of a channel linking geography to economic development that has not been investigated …