In 1993, Colombia carried out a sweeping health reform that sought to dramatically increase health insurance coverage and reduce state involvement in health provision by creating a unitary state-supervised health system in which private entities are the main insurers and health service...

Many governments continue constructing new subway lines with the goal of reducing congestion and pollution in large cities. Besides the potential global effects on reducing negative externalities in the city, there are some local positive effects in terms of lower commuting time and distance for...

In this work we estimate the degree of capitalization of the Santiago Metro network on housing prices, analyzing the differences among lines and counties. For this purpose, we combine hedonic regressions with simple difference estimators. The results show that apartments located near the Metro...