Poco se sabe en Colombia acerca de las competencias académicas de los maestros. Este documento investiga sobre el estándar académico de las personas que cursan y se gradúan de programas superiores en educación. Los resultados indican que existe una relación inversa entre el desempeño en...

Using data from Medellín, second largest city in Colombia, we asses in this paper how a set of neighborhood characteristics determines wages and labor supply for workers in the city. We use GIS data to construct measures of the quality of environments where workers live. This paper focuses in...

Single-sex classes within coeducational environments are likely to modify students' risk-taking attitudes in economically important ways. To test this, we designed a controlled experiment using first year college students who made choices over real-stakes lotteries at two distinct dates....

We examine the effect of single-sex classes on the pass rates, grades, and course choices of students in a coeducational university. We randomly assign students to all-female, all-male, and coed classes and, therefore, get around the selection issues present in other studies on single-sex...

Este artículo evalúa el efecto de los centros de cuidado infantil sobre la participación laboral y la empleabilidad de madres de menores de cinco años. Con este fin, se analiza la provisión pública de los centros de cuidado provistos por el Gobierno de la ciudad de Medellín a través de...

Este artículo evalúa el efecto de los centros de cuidado infantil sobre la participación laboral y la empleabilidad de madres de menores de cinco años. Con este fin, se analiza la provisión pública de los centros de cuidado provistos por el Gobierno de la ciudad de Medellín a través de...

In recent decades, studies on economics have identified happiness as a life quality indicator that not only accounts for individuals' socioeconomic improvement but also accounts for their interactions with institutions and public goods, such as personal safety and protection of life. This study...

People migrate both within and between countries to improve their lives and the lives of families left back home. Evidence is growing on the significant returns to voluntary internal and international migration. Wage differentials incentivize people to cross borders and work abroad. Despite...

People migrate both within and between countries to improve their lives and the lives of families left back home. Evidence is growing on the significant returns to voluntary internal and international migration. Wage differentials incentivize people to cross borders and work abroad. Despite...