This paper studies the e§ect of credit constraints and constraints on transfers between parents and children, on di§erences in labor and schooling across children within the same household, with an application to gender. When families are unconstrained in these respects, di§erences in labor...

Abstract: This paper asks whether school based management may help reducing risky sexual behavior of teenagers. For this purpose we use student level data from Bogota to identify students from Concession School (CS), who are enrolled in public education system with a more school management...

El artículo presenta diferentes alternativas a la estratificación socioeconómica de viviendas basados en información catastral para la ciudad de Bogotá, D.C., y evalúa su impacto en cuanto a cambios de estratos de los hogares, errores de inclusión y exclusión e impacto financiero, frente...

Este artículo presenta una primera propuesta de determinación de subsidios y contribuciones de tarifas de servicios públicos domiciliarios – SPD para la Capital colombiana, que no parta de una clasificación de grupos (estratos socioeconómicos). A partir de un ejercicio exploratorio, se...

ABSTRACT This paper tries to find empirical evidence of the health determinants, as a measure of health capital in a developing country after a deep reform of its health-care sector. It follows the Grossman model (1972) and also takes, besides individual and socioeconomic variables,...

The new theories of economic growth and developments in health economics have both suggested a reciprocal relationship between health and growth. Questions such as the contribution of health to growth are recent in the research agenda of economists. The challenge lies in uniting these two...

Economists have shown that investments in science and technology (S&T) have an important impact on country's economic growth and productivity gains. Nowadays there is no doubt of the importance in providing public funding for S&T activities. Public policies have been oriented to provide...

Este trabajo presenta una discusión acerca de los retornos a la inversión en educación y de su estimación para el caso colombiano. El marco teórico esta dado por la literatura del capital humano en educación, los aspectos de estimación de dichos retornos, los problemas de omitir en la...

From the Choice Theory we considered the way in which certain population characteristics affect the households health expenditure in Colombia. The approach of this paper is based on Deaton’s work (1980), where the choice set of the individuals is the intercession of the budgetary set and the...