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 …

This paper shows that cross country differences in the generosity and the quality of the welfare state are associated …

the most suffered the biggest loss in confidence in institutions, particularly in trust in government and the financial … sector. Finally, analysis of several repeated cross-sections of confidence within U.S. states yields similar qualitative … patterns, but much smaller magnitudes in response to state-specific shocks. …

observed patterns in the team-entry gender gap: (1) a gender gap in confidence in others (i.e. women are less pessimistic about …

would lead to a collapse of society. Fading hopes in the population seem to confirm this. The paper rejects this …