We investigate the effect of education Conditional Cash Transfer programs (CCTs) on teenage pregnancy. Our main concern is with how the size and sign of the effect may depend on the design of the program. Using a simple model we show that an education CCT that conditions renewal on school...

We investigate the effect of education Conditional Cash Transfer programs (CCTs) on teenage pregnancy. Our main concern is with how the size and sign of the effect may depend on the design of the program. Using a simple model we show that an education CCT that conditions renewal on school...

We investigate the effect of education Conditional Cash Transfer programs (CCTs) on teenage pregnancy. Our main concern is with how the size and sign of the effect may depend on the design of the program. Using a simple model we show that an education CCT that conditions renewal on school...

Using household data from the 2006 Income and Expenditure survey, we provide a new estimation of demand systems for Colombia. We estimate three different specifications of demand systems, namely, the Linear Expenditure System (LES), the Extended Linear Expenditure System (ELES) and the Almost...

Utilizando datos a nivel de hogares de la Encuesta de Ingresos y Gastos2006-2007, estimamos cuatro diferentes especificaciones de sistemasde demanda para Colombia, a saber, el sistema lineal de gastos (les),el sistema lineal de gastos extendido (eles), el sistema cuasi ideal dedemanda (aids) y...

This paper revisits the data set collected by Toro, Alvis and Arellano (2005) in order to evaluate three main models in transportation: probit, conditional logit, and the nested logit. The results show that the advantages of other transportation modes over buses are their lower travel and...

El presente documento busca analizar el comportamiento de los hogares colombianos en la compra de vehículo nuevo para uso particular, y modelar el funcionamiento de la demanda de vehículos particulares en Colombia, entre 2009 y 2011. Esto a partir de la estimación de un modelo logit anidado...

El propósito de este trabajo es evaluar los efectos del Acuerdo Comercial El Grupo de los Tres" (G-3) sobre el mercado automotriz colombiano.Asumiendo que la demanda se puede describir como un modelo de elección discreta, se desarrolla un modelo de equilibrio parcial para analizarla cuota de...

El presente documento busca analizar el comportamiento de los hogares colombianos en la compra de vehículo nuevo para uso particular, y modelar el funcionamiento de la demanda de vehículos particulares en Colombia, entre 2009 y 2011. Esto a partir de la estimación de un modelo logit anidado...

This paper purpose is to determine the variables that could influence the individual observable decision of listening to recorded music in Colombia. To do so, probit models are estimated using micro-data from the Encuesta de Consumo Cultural 2008 [Cultural Consumption Survey 2008 ]. Empirical...