Resumen El objetivo principal de este artículo es tratar el tema del hacinamiento carcelario en Colombia. En este contexto se tocarán aspectos teóricos y éticos de la economía y el de- lito, teniendo en cuenta conceptos de economía ortodoxa y heterodoxa como oferta, demanda, costos y...

Public education is one of the largest components of the public sector in Colombia, in term of its size, share of public expenditures, and geographic coverage. In 1997, Colombia had 85 thousand educational establishments, 390 thousand teachers, and 8.6 million students. In addition, public...

Este documento busca estudiar la financiación de la educación básica y media como una de las principales aplicaciones de la economía de la educación, poco documentadas en Colombia. Por lo que se hace una revisión contextual normativa de la planificación y financiación de la educación en...

Este artículo explora el cambio del modelo interventor de Estado al modelo liberal, implementado en Colombia desde los años 90, buscando explicaciones sobre las posibles implicaciones de este cambio del modelo económico sobre la educación. Desde el punto de vista de la acción del Estado, la...

This paper examines the impact of month of birth on national achievement test scores in England whilst children are in school, and on subsequent further and higher education participation. Using geographical variation in school admissions policies, we are able to split this difference into an...

Using a model of O-ring production function, the paper demonstrates how certain communities can get caught in a low-literacy trap in which each individual finds it not worthwhile investing in higher skills because others are not high-skilled. The model sheds light on educational policy. It is...

We investigate whether the academic performance of non-eligible students - in an institutional setting of full inclusion - are affected by special education resources. Special education resources are per definition provided in a compensatory manner, and are increasingly being targeted to...

This paper studies the role of public policy to promote efficiency in human capital accumulation in the representative agent framework. Agents accumulate human capital by spending time in home study and in publicly provided schools. The individual faces an aggregate externality in the...

This paper evaluates whether means-tested grants paid to secondary students are an effective way of reducing the proportion of school dropouts. We look at this problem using matching techniques on a pilot study carried out in England during 1999 and 2000 using a specially designed dataset that...

The paper studies the effects of Familias en Acción, a conditional cash transfer program implemented in rural areas in Colombia since 2002, on school enrolment and child labour. Using a difference-in-difference framework, our results show that the program increased school participation of 14 to...