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In this paper we try to contribute to the understanding of the persistence and increase of meat eating in the face of … mounting evidence on the ills of meat production and consumption by considering the role of selective attention and learning … campaigns about the externalities of meat consumption might be ineffective as the informational content may be lost on precisely …
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, economic and demographic growth could boost the demand for meat, with significant environmental repercussions. We model meat … improvements - meat demand in SSA is bound to become a major sustainability challenge. We show that a partial substitution of the …
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, labor formality, and growth of a reduction in non-wage labor costs in Colombia. First, and following Hall and Jorgensen … model calibrated for Colombia, we estimate that the reduction of the "pure tax" component of non-wage labor costs approved …
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of productive development policies in Colombia. These policies are increasingly designed in the context of formal …
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crawling peg exchange rate regimes, Colombia adopted a full-fledged inflation-targeting (IT) regime in 1999, with inflation as …
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In this paper we use Colombian manufacturing data on exports and external financing for the period 1998 - 2006 to estimate the credit elasticity of exports. We use bank-firm linked data to construct a supply side instrument for a manufacturer's demand of credit, which we use to address the...
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This paper studies the link between severe weather shocks in Colombia and municipality-level incidence of dengue and …
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We study the socio-economic gradient of child development on a representative sample of low- and middle-income children aged 6-42 months in Bogota, using the Bayley Scales of Infant Development, a high quality test based on direct observation of the child's abilities. We find a statistically...
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