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Over two centuries, Colombia transferred vast quantities of land, equivalent to the entire UK landmass, mainly to … landless peasants. And yet Colombia retains one of the highest concentrations of land ownership in the world. Why? We show that … land reform's effects are highly bimodal. Most of Colombia's 1100+ municipalities lack a landed elite. Here, rural …
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-scale coffee farmers in Colombia. Post-harvest coffee processing is traditionally very water-intensive and poses a threat to the …
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The global commodity boom are accompanied by the rise of social protest in Colombia. The protestors claim the pollution …. The paper presents and analyzes a database on social protests against miming in Colombia between 2000 and 2015. The Data …
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, Colombia, Costa Rica and Mexico shows that: (i) women provide the vast majority of family LTC; (ii) consistently across …
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In this paper we analyze the impact of Venezuelan migration on the female labor supply in Colombia. Using a …
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This paper studies the impact of a massive skilled labor supply shock on Colombian manufacturing firms' exports, the Venezuelan exodus. We exploit cross-sectional and time variability of Venezuelan forced migrants' settlements in Colombian sub-national areas through an enclave instrumental...
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We document the evolution of labor markets of five Latin American countries during the COVID-19 pandemic, with emphasis on informal employment. We show, for most countries, a slump in aggregate employment, mirrored by a fall in labor participation, and a decline in the informality rate. The...
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.3 million farmers in Colombia, as well as a fixed effects model using original data on 15,000 municipality-year observations of …
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In cities around the world, Covid-19 lockdowns have improved outdoor air quality, in some cases dramatically. Even if only temporary, these improvements could have longer-lasting effects on policy by making chronic air pollution more salient and boosting political pressure for change. To that...
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limited. We conduct a randomized controlled trial to evaluate the impact of training university students in Bogotá, Colombia …
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