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...

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...

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...

El sistema pensional colombiano se encuentra en una de las etapas más críticas de los últimos años, representando el mayor problema fiscal que enfrentarán las finanzas públicas en el y en los próximos veinte años. Las modificaciones a la legislación hechas desde 1993 beneficiaron a...

El artìculo se centra en los impactos sociales de la investigación y en la medición de estos. El estudio del impacto de la actividad investigativa admite distintas secciones: las múltiples definiciones de los sistemas de investigación; la evaluación de impacto de la investigación; el...

The Universidad del Rosario" is one of the oldest Universities in Colombia, it was founded in 1653, and has since then been characterized as a very traditional University. Within the University, one of the Faculties has developed a deeply rooted cultural change which has transformed the nature...

ABSTRACTThis is a critical review of the empirical literature on the relationship between violence and economic growth in Colombia: an interesting case study for social scientists studying violence, conflict, crime and development. We argue that, despite the rapid development of this literature...

ABSTRACTWe 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...

ABSTRACT:We undertake a first step to investigating a reform that has beenapplied in numerous universities across Europe: the right to select students. We ask to what extent this right will increase the effciency of the university. While it seems evident that giving universities the right to...

We assess inequality of opportunity in educational achievement in six Latin American countries, employing two waves of PISA data (2006 and 2009). By means of a non-parametric approach using a decomposable inequality index, GE(0), we rank countries according to their degree of inequality of...