This paper aims to study the impact of teachers´ professionalization degree on the quality of schools, measured by student performance on the standardized test SABER11. We use instrumental variables (IV) models, in order to overcome possible endogeneity problems. The results indicate that the...

The evidence of gender pay gap is present in the Colombian labor market, as in many other countries. This gap is not homogeneous in the territory, which provides the rationale for a detailed analysis of what is happening in each of the regions of the country. The results show differentials of...

This paper aims to study the differences in the degree of professionalization of teachers in educational institutions in Colombia. We decompose the inequalities in the supply of teachers according to their degree of professionalization through the Theil index. Next, we carry out estimates of the...

This study aims to provide a socio-economic outlook of Bogota, focusing on the first decade of the 21st century. Bogota has become the Colombian most successful city. Socioeconomic indicators such as per capita income, low rates of informality, high coverage of public supplied services and high...

Economic and demographic growth in Colombia has been dominated by the largest cities. This has resulted in the common believe that Colombia is mainly an urban country. The aim of this paper is to show how economic and demographic growth has evolved, especially, the population density, since the...

The formulation of an index number which allows spatial comparison of housing prices is of major relevance for economic policies related to the expenditure assigned to social housing. This study aims to compute a spatial price index for urban housing in the main Colombian cities. We used the...

This paper studies the evidence on regional convergence in the last two decades. The results point to a high degree of persistence in regional inequalities. This was confirmed through the analysis of spatial econometrics, which showed that there is a strong spatial dependence in the distribution...

El objetivo de este estudio es identificar los principales determinantes de la brecha educativa de los adolescentes en Colombia y establecer cuáles son los patrones de la movilidad social de los adolescentes desde un enfoque regional. La metodología utilizada consiste en estimar regresiones de...

This paper aims to carry out a depiction of labor informality in Colombia. We discuss the different alternatives that have been considered when defining and measuring labor informality and, based on technical criteria, employ the definitions related to the lack of affiliation to social security...

This paper analyzes the housing gap in Barranquilla and Soledad during 1993, 2005 and 2009. Employing the methodology applied by the National Department of Statistics, DANE, for the measurement of the housing gap in 1993 and 2005, the results showed that in the city of Barranquilla the...