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Descentralización y progreso en el acceso a los servicios sociales de educación, salud y agua y alcantarillado

Sánchez, Fabio - 2006

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003337314

Colonial Mestizaje and Its Consequences for Human Capital and Early Twentieth Century Regional Industrialization in Colombia

España, Irina - 2012

This paper quantitatively shows that the 1945 regional differences in the degree of development of manufacturing industry are explained by human capital accumulation prior to industrial development. Human capital accumulation was more intense in the regions with higher presence of non white free...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013099572

Is Justice Blind? An Examination of Disparities in Homicide Sentencing in Colombia, 1980-2000

Martinez, Mariana - 2009

topic by focusing on disparities in homicide sentences using data from over 9000 homicide cases tried in Colombia from 1980 …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013156099

Is Extraction Bad? Encomienda and Development in Colombia Since 1560

Faguet, Jean-Paul - 2017

three centuries, on long-term development outcomes in Colombia. Despite being a classically extractive institution … territories they dominated. This stronger local state persisted through Colombia's war of independence and the chronic instability …

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Does Better Teacher Selection Lead to Better Students? Evidence from a Large Scale Reform in Colombia

Brutti, Zelda - 2017

In 2002 the career of Colombian public school teachers was significantly reformed through the introduction of a selective entry competition and of further quality incentives. This paper estimates how the new quality-screened teachers impact students' high school performance. We exploit the fact...

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The Perversion of Land Reform by Landed Elites : Power, Inequality and Development in Colombia

Faguet, Jean-Paul - 2019

Over two centuries, Colombia transferred vast quantities of land, equivalent to the entire UK landmass, mainly to … landless peasants. And yet Colombia retains one of the highest concentrations of land ownership in the world. Why? We show that … land reform's effects are highly bimodal. Most of Colombia's 1100+ municipalities lack a landed elite. Here, rural …

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Historical Grievances and War Dynamics : Old Land Conflicts As a Cause of Current Forced Displacements in Colombia

Saffon, Maria Paula - 2019

We explore the role of unfairly resolved land conflicts on the long-run dynamics of Colombia's war. We claimed that …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012866263

Do Loans for Higher Education Lead to Better Salaries? Evidence from a Regression Discontinuity Approach for Colombia

Sánchez, Fabio - 2014

Colombia and using a regression discontinuity design, we found that the recipients of the ACCES educational credit have …

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Constructive Extraction? Encomienda, the Colonial State, and Development in Colombia

Faguet, Jean-Paul; Matajira, Camilo; Sánchez, Fabio - 2022

The Spanish encomienda, a colonial forced-labor institution that lasted three centuries, killed many indigenous people and caused others to flee into nomadism. And yet we show that Colombian municipalities with encomiendas in 1560 enjoy better outcomes today across multiple dimensions of...

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The intended and unintended impacts of a merit-based financial aid propgram for the poor : the case of Ser Pilo Paga

Londoño Vélez, Juliana; Rodríguez, Catherine; … - 2017

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011889988