Using a panel dataset from 1980 to 2000 this paper analyzes the determinants of income inequality in Latin American countries with special attention paid to education, health, and social security expenditures. I build on previous research by solving for the endogeneity of the social spending...

This paper presents evidence of the ability of poor households in Colombia to insure consumption against idiosyncratic and covariate risks. Using longitudinal data from Familias en Acción (FA), a conditional cash transfer program (CCT) in Colombia, we test the predictions of the Pareto full...

Using a panel dataset from 1980 to 2000 this paper analyzes the determinants of income inequality in Latin American countries with special attention paid to education, health, and social security expenditures. I build on previous research by solving for the endogeneity of the social spending...

This paper presents evidence of the ability of poor households in Colombia to insure consumption against idiosyncratic and covariate risks. Using longitudinal data from Familias en Acción (FA), a conditional cash transfer program (CCT) in Colombia, we test the predictions of the Pareto full...

This paper presents evidence on the labor market effects of social assistance programs in the short and medium run. We evaluate the impacts of a Conditional Cash Transfer program (Familias en Acción) on informality in Colombia. We exploit an exogenous shock linked to cash transfer benefits that...

This study identifies how community attributes affect household residential location decisions in Medellin, Colombia. The empirical model applies the revealed preference principle: each household is assumed to have made an optimal location decision given a set of alternatives. Using household...

This paper argues that exogenous changes in household income alter the allocation of time within the family. To examine this issue, we propose a theoretical framework that is an extension of the unitary model of intra-household time allocation where conditional cash transfers are received by the...

Spanish Abstract: Este estudio explora la validez y fiabilidad de un instrumento de medición del ambiente escolar suministrado a 3610 docentes de las Instituciones Educativas oficiales de la ciudad de Medellín - Colombia en 2011. El análisis factorial exploratorio multinivel permitió...