Using a panel dataset from 1980 to 2000 this paper analyzes the determinants of income inequality in Latin American countries with special attention paid to education, health, and social security expenditures. I build on previous research by solving for the endogeneity of the social spending...

This paper presents evidence of the ability of poor households in Colombia to insure consumption against idiosyncratic and covariate risks. Using longitudinal data from Familias en Acción (FA), a conditional cash transfer program (CCT) in Colombia, we test the predictions of the Pareto full...

Using a panel dataset from 1980 to 2000 this paper analyzes the determinants of income inequality in Latin American countries with special attention paid to education, health, and social security expenditures. I build on previous research by solving for the endogeneity of the social spending...