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We analyze the determinants of subjective returns of higher education in Colombia. The information on expectations has been collected in categories, motivating the use of interval regression and an ordered probit approaches for modeling the relationship between beliefs and measures of ability,...
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Abstract This paper makes use of a short, sharp, unexpected health shock in the form of the 2010 Colombian Dengue outbreak to examine the direct and indirect impact of negative health shocks on behaviour of households in affected areas. Our analysis combines data from several sources in order to...
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Se evalúa el impacto redistributivo de las políticas educativas en Bogotá mediante elAnálisis de Incidencia del Beneficio. A pesar que los hogares son autónomos conrespecto a la elección entre la educación oficial y no oficial, la provisión pública de laeducación genera fuertes...
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El trabajo estudia las diferencias en el Índice de Masa Corporal (IMC) por grupos etariosentre los 20 y 60 años teniendo como punto de referencia escalas normativas y relativasmediante el uso de algunos indicadores de pobreza y distribución del ingreso. Se encuentraque la proporción de la...
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This document tries to schematize the basic concepts studied in the economic theory to evaluate life conditions of people. We show the different approaches of the old and new welfare economics and we conclude that the economic theory has arrived at a concept of welfare and justice extensively...
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En este documento se quiere demostrar que una teoría que pretenda fundamentar la política social que no permita las comparaciones interpersonales es inadecuada. Por esta razón, el punto de partida es una crítica a la economía normativa neoclásica. Esta crítica consiste, en últimas, en...
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We assess inequality of opportunity in educational achievement in six Latin American countries, employing two waves of PISA data (2006 and 2009). By means of a non-parametric approach using a decomposable inequality index, GE(0), we rank countries according to their degree of inequality of...
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