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the household or the outcomes of these investments. Results using data from Colombia suggest that family size has negative …
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This paper surveys gender earnings gaps in Colombia from 1994 to 2006, using matching comparisons to examine the extent …
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Forty years of low-intensity internal armed conflict has made Colombia home to the world's second largest population of …
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collected one and six years after the earthquake. Colombia provides a unique setting for our study because the government …
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Social protection systems in developing countries are typically composed of a bundle of benefits, the major ones being health insurance and pensions. Benefit bundling may increase informality and decrease welfare. Indeed, if some of the benefits are valued at substantially less than their cost,...
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This paper estimates the effect of enrollment in a large scale anti-poverty program in Colombia, Familias en Acción (FA …
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-age population of Colombia's urban areas. Using a 2012 unique household survey, the paper finds that cognitive skills (aptitudes to …
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Colombia. Negative binomial cross-sectional estimates indicate that departments sharing an international border and overall …
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. Using a regression discontinuity design we test whether a large CCT program in Colombia affects the time preferences of …
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This article explores the variation in the wage distributions of two Latin American countries, Bolivia and Colombia …, especially benefiting the least skilled workers and the informal sector. On the other hand, the wage distribution in Colombia …
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