El artículo busca entender la manera en que el cambio en la conceptualización del examen del ICFES, a partir del 2000, afectó la importancia de la escuela en la predicción del logro del estudiante. El artículo muestra que la importancia bruta de la escuela, que entre 1997 y 1999 se situaba...

This document seeks to show the main properties of a standard of living index using the theoretical approach of Amartya Sen. We establish the link among concepts such as: welfare, well-being, agency achievement and standard of living. Optimal scaling methodology was fundamental in order to test...

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...

AbstractHow the degree of publicness of goods affect violent conflict? Based on the theoretical model in Esteban and Ray (2001) we find that the effect of the degree of publicness depends on the group size. When the group is small (large), the degree of publicness increases (decreases) the...

Recientemente, varios experimentos han mostrado que los individuos exhiben un comportamiento auténticamente recíproco en interacciones anónimas que se dan una sola vez ('one-shot'). En tanto que se ha mostrado que la reciprocidad es relevante en múltiples campos de la economía, han existido...

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...

We examine the Zika outbreak in Colombia in 2015 to determine how a negative shock affects female behaviors related to fertility. Our empirical strategy combines Zika reports and Demographic health surveys to distinguish the responses according to their marital status and it is based on an...

We test the existence of changes in the relationship between fertility and schoolingin Colombia for women from 30 to 40 years old between 1995 and 2005. For ourpurpose, we use Poisson Regression Models. Our database is the Demographic andHealth Survey from 1995 and 2005. We found a reduction in...

This study examines the determinants of information and communications technology(ICT) use and access of low-income people in three developing countries: Colombia,Mexico and Peru. We focus on cross-country differences and similarities in ICTs use acrossgender, age, education and income, using...

This paper uses Colombian household survey data collected over the period 1984-2005 to estimate Gini coeficients along with their corresponding standard errors. We …find a statistically signi…cant increase in wage income inequality following the adoption of the liberalisation measures of the...