We perform a characterization of Colombia's industrial exports for the 1990-2010 period. We contrast the commonly used classification of exports (traditional vs. nontraditional) to that of Lall's (2000), which is based on the technological component of exports, stressing the advantages of the...

En este documento se realiza una caracterización de las exportaciones industriales colombianas en el periodo 1990-2010, comparando la clasificación convencional de las exportaciones (tradicionales y no tradicionales) con la de los contenidos tecnológicos de Sanjaya Lall (2000) y resaltando...

We analyze the determinants of subjective returns of higher education in Colombia. The information on expectations has been collected in categories, motivating the use of interval regression and an ordered probit approaches for modeling the relationship between beliefs and measures of ability,...

Despite a growing body of literature on how environmental degradation can fuel civil war, the reverse effect, namely that of conflict on environmental outcomes, is relatively understudied. From a theoretical point of view this effect is ambiguous, with some forces pointing to pressures for...

Abstract This paper makes use of a short, sharp, unexpected health shock in the form of the 2010 Colombian Dengue outbreak to examine the direct and indirect impact of negative health shocks on behaviour of households in affected areas. Our analysis combines data from several sources in order to...

Las actividades ilegales constituyen un foco de atención importante paralas políticas públicas de cualquier sociedad moderna. En Colombia, lasmanifestaciones delictivas se han incrementado hasta alcanzar nivelespreocupantes. En los censos sobre cultivos ilícitos para 2005 y 2006 laONUDD...

We study economic conflicts using a game theoretical approach. We model a conflict between twoagents where each one has two possible strategies: cease-fire or neglect the truce. Under thissetting, we use the concept of pre-donations, namely, a redefinition of the game where agentscommit to...