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En este documento se presenta un análisis del comportamiento del ahorro de los hogares y sus determinantes, considerando una perspectiva de largo plazo para el periodo 1950-2004 y una de corto plazo a nivel microeconómico, utilizando la información de las encuestas de calidad de vida de 1997...
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This paper uses a natural policy experiment to estimate how changes in the costs of engaging in criminal activity may influence adolescents’ decisions in crime participation and school attendance. The study finds that, after an exogenous decrease in the severity of judicial punishment imposed...
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Using individual data on persons arrested in the Medellin Metropolitan Area, this paper assesses whether the change in punishment at age 18, mandated by law, has a deterrent effect on arrests. No deterrent effect was found on index, violent or property crimes, but a deterrence effect was found...
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This paper estimates the impact of two productive development programs (PDPs) in Costa Rica: PROPYME and CR Provee. The first seeks to increase the capacity of small and medium-sized firms (SMEs) to innovate, and the second aims to increase backward linkages between Costa Rican SMEs and...
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This paper aims to propose a reading of [des] political order in Colombia, using as a theoretical source of Douglass … Colombia there are very limited conditions for coordinating collective action, (2) what direct and indirect effects on the [des …
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territories, usually in the central mountains of Colombia (although not exclusively or only way) and organized by the State being …
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This paper analyzes, through case study, the activity of the Colombian Caribbean entrepreneurs in the inland country during the 19th century. It discusses the business of Amador family, Juan Bautista Mainero and Fergusson Noguera family. The aim is to highlight the importance of studying the...
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out the occurrence of terrorist attacks. It presents the simulation results of the hypothetical case of U.S., and Colombia … occurring in 1996, and 1998 with 24,950, and 61,516 casualties respectively; while for Colombia three attacks are artificially …-political context of the war in Iraq is different, Its objective, is to use the experience from Colombia to help policy, and decision …
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living standards. We use available data for Colombia between 1905 and 2005 to test the main predictions of the model with …
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Colombia. MapaRegalías is an online platform that displays geo-referenced information and data on royalties coming from the …
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