Resumen Con base en los registros ociales de 13.440 personas del Instituto Nacional Penitenciario y Carcelario (INPEC) sobre la población reclusa en octubre de 2011, se investiga haciendo uso de modelos de duración paramétricos, cuáles son los factores que determinan la reincidencia, y su...

We estimate the effect of coach dismissals on team performance using data from the Argentine professional soccer league from 1991 to 2009. Because firing a coach might depend on team performance, we use the number of remaining matches in the season as a source of exogenous variation in the...

As part of an initiative to improve quality and accountability in Colombian higher education, the National Education Ministry introduced a college field-specific exit exam known as ECAES in 2003. The purpose of this paper is to use an alternative approach to quantify and analyze the performance...

Este artículo formaliza a través de un mecanismo de principal-agente la política de seguridaddemocrática del gobierno de Uribe y muestra su relación con el incremento de las víctimas deejecuciones extrajudiciales. El modelo explica las fallas de la política de seguridad democráticaal...

For some, the income distribution is the first example of a power law, empiric rule whereof an random variable reaches high values with a low probability and low values with a high probability. This article corroborates if the income distribution of the richest Colombians adjusts to a power law....