This paper examines the relationship between three government support measures (debt moratorium, credit guarantee programs, and payroll subsidies) and the firm's payment behavior on loans in Colombia. To do so, we take advantage of the COVID-19 pandemic and use it as a case study. Using highly...

"Based on a four-city survey, focused interviews with expert informants, a survey of Bogotá street workers, and participant observation research, work profiles economic and social structure of Colombia's informal economy. The quantitative appendix is valuable"--Handbook of Latin American...

Alongside negative feedback loops between violence and development, several studies find a positive and significant effect of exposure to warfare onto prosocial behavior. This increase in prosociality tends to favor the group the individual identifies with relative to the out-group. The current...