The purpose of this article is to identify to what extent there is a causal relationship between wealth and non-cognitive skills for children in Colombia. This article contributes to the existing literature of skills formation in three ways. First, methodological shortcomings of previous works...

Using a global panel on research and development (R&D) expenditures, this paper documents that on average poor countries do far less R&D than rich as a share of GDP. This is arguably counter intuitive since the gains from doing the R&D required for technological catch up are thought to be very...

A number of soccer officials have long debated whether to ban soccer games played at high altitudes above sea level. This paper explores soccer player’s performance when playing at high elevations using data obtained from the Copa Libertadores. I propose a range of direct indicators of player...

Este trabajo analiza los efectos de largo plazo de la reforma agraria entendida como la asignación de tierras baldías sobre el desplazamiento forzado, el abandono y despojo de tierras, en un contexto concentración del poder político y aumentos en los retornos de la tierra. A partir de un...

The main objective of this paper is to provide empirical evidence on the mechanisms that shape the relationship between violent conflict and collective action. Conflict dynamics in Colombia allow us to exploit rich variation in armed group presence and individual participation in local...

En este texto se actualizan los datos sobre precios inmobiliarios referidos a la vivienda en Bogotá producidos por el Observatorio del Mercado del Espacio Construido del CEDE, cuya última versión publicada data ya de una década. En este texto se presentan datos entre 1970 y 2013 de tres...

En este texto se examina la evolución de los precios de los terrenos destinados a vivienda en Bogotá entre 1970 y 2012. Las cifras se refieren a siete áreas de la ciudad durante estos 42 años, y es posible tener estimaciones para tres estratos de ingreso y un promedio general. En el texto se...

Using detailed survey data on management practices, this paper uses recent advances in unconditional quartile analysis to study the changes in the within country distribution of management quality associated with country convergence to the managerial frontier. It then decomposes the contribution...

El presente documento hace una revisión de la política de reforma agraria en Colombia desde principios del siglo XX hasta 2012, caracterizada por la adjudicación de baldíos a campesinos. En este documento, se busca dar cuenta de la magnitud e importancia de esta política pública que ha...

Abstract We document the existence of a Crime Kuznets Curve in US states since the 1970s. As in come level shave risen, crime has followed an inverted U-shaped pattern, first increasing and then dropping. The Crime Kuznets Curve is not explained by income inequality. In fact, we show that during...