Spanish Abstract: En este estudio se pone a prueba la hipótesis de que el sistema de estratificación socio-económica colombiano, que asigna a cada vivienda un número de uno a seis para determinar las tarifas de servicios públicos domiciliarios, pueda causar segregación. Una atenta...

In this paper the behavior of a tax-collecting government (a tax office) when imposing a quantity-tax to firms is analyzed along a two-period signaling model. Each taxpayer privately knows its technological attributes, while third parties—the tax office among them—have only a prior belief...

This paper tests Bester's (1985, 1987) prediction about the separating role ofcontracts that involve both interest rates and collateral in credit markets. To test thisprediction we use data from natural credit markets and controlled experiments. Using asample of credits to small and medium size...

Citizens confront multiple challenges when attempting to access public services. This article focuses on an aspect yet unaddressed by existing literature on administrative burdens: the complexity of the written language used by government agencies in Latin America. It presents an impact...

Spanish Abstract: En este trabajo se evalúan los impactos de corto plazo de un programa de refuerzo extracurricular de matemáticas y aprendizaje basado en proyectos, denominado “Con Las Manos”, sobre la habilidad cognitiva, la regulación emocional y la función ejecutiva de estudiantes de...