This paper measures the impact of crime on firm investment by exploiting variation in kidnappings in Colombia from 1996 to 2002. Our central result is that firms invest less when kidnappings target firms. We also find that aggregate crime rates-homicides, guerrilla attacks, and general...

This paper analyzes the entire reformist effort that spans from 1990 until 2002, emphasizing the second wave that ended with the issuing of a new labor code in 2002. A successful reform has to surpass a set of deals" along the streamline of design, consensus building within civil society,...

Since de early seventies a number of technical sanitation alternatives were proposed to clean the wastewaters of the Bogotá River. However, mainly for economic reasons, they were not implemented. It was only until the early nineties that the administration of the city of Bogotá decided to...

Between 1998 and 2003 production increases in Brazil and Vietnam drove down the price of coffee by 73 percent in global markets, triggering the international coffee crisis". We examine the effect of this exogenous price shock on Colombia´s civil war, exploring whether politically-motivated...

Este trabajo es la aproximación más reciente al estudio del impacto de los sindicatos en Colombia. Se busca responder a las preguntas ¿Existe un diferencial salarial entre empleados sindicalizados y no sindicalizados atribuible a los sindicatos?, ¿Cuál es la magnitud del diferencial? y...

Este trabajo analiza los determinantes de la relación entre asistencia escolar y trabajo infantil y juvenil, en los municipios de Funza y Madrid (Colombia). Se busca responder a las preguntas: ¿Existe algún vínculo entre la decisión de no asistir y la participación de niños y jóvenes en...

La población desplazada en Colombia asciende a cerca de 1.8 millones de personas y equivale al 4.3 por ciento de la población. La legislación colombiana para la población desplazada ha generado responsabilidades diferenciadas entre los gobiernos nacionales y locales. La responsabilidad...

Este artículo examina las consecuencias sobre los ingresos laborales de tener un nombre atípico para el caso colombiano. La primera parte del artículo muestra que los jóvenes, hijos de padres no educados, habitantes de zonas rurales y pertenecientes a minorías étnicas tienen una mayor...

Data from three bargaining games-the Dictator Game, the Ultimatum Game, and the Third-Party Punishment Game-played in 15 societies are presented. The societies range from USundergraduates to Amazonian, Arctic, and African hunter-gatherers. Behaviour within the games varies markedly across...

Colombia´s oil history began in 1918 and reached its golden era at the end of the 1980s. Regulation in the oil industry changed several times since 1974, mainly responding to the discoveries made. Although agreed contract terms have been honored for oil fields allocated in the past, regulation...