Across the world, the SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19) pandemic has disproportionately affected economically disadvantaged groups. This differential impact has numerous possible explanations, each with significantly different policy implications. We examine, for the first time in a low- or middle-income...

In many developing countries, the COVID-19 pandemic has spread much faster and wider than the number of detected cases implies. By combining data from 59,770 RT-PCR tests on mostly asymptomatic individuals with administrative data on all detected cases, we capture the spread and dynamics of the...

Spanish Abstract: Este artículo hace dos cosas. Primero, usa una base de datos original, basada en los albúmenes de Panini de los mundiales de fútbol, para estudiar la creciente globalización en el mercado de jugadores. Segundo, muestra, con base en una serie de indicadores sencillos, que la...

This study identifies the main problems that Colombia faces and the medium and long term policies that it should follows in order to become a developed country. We concentrate on five relevant elements of development: Education, health and demography, poverty and income distribution, labor...