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Do Cognitive and Noncognitive Skills Explain the Gender Wage Gap in Middle-Income Countries? : An Analysis Using STEP Data
Sanchez Puerta, Maria Laura; Tognatta, Namrata; … - 2016
Gender-based wage discrimination is a highly researched area of labor economics. However, most studies on this topic have focused on schooling and paid limited attention to the mechanisms through which cognitive and noncognitive skills influence wages. This paper uses data from adults in seven...
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Are Public Libraries Improving Quality of Education? : When the Provision of Public Goods is Not Enough
Rodriguez-Lesmes, Paul; Trujillo, Jose Daniel; … - 2015
in Bogotá, Colombia. It assesses the impact of these libraries on the quality of education by comparing national test …
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On the Effects of Enforcement on Illegal Markets : Evidence from a Quasi-Experiment in Colombia
Mejía, Daniel; Restrepo, Pascual; Rozo, Sandra V. - 2015
designed to curb coca cultivation in Colombia. In 2006, the Colombian government pledged not to spray a 10 km band around the … frontier with Ecuador due to diplomatic frictions arising from the possibly negative collateral effects of this policy on the …-effective policy for reducing cocaine production in Colombia …
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Broken Gears : The Value Added of Higher Education on Teachers' Academic Achievement
Balcázar, Carlos Felipe; Nopo, Hugo - 2015
Good teachers are essential for high-quality educational systems. However, little is known about teachers' skills formation during college. By combining two standardized tests for Colombian students, one taken at the end of senior year in high school and the other when students are near...
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Do Foreign Investors Underperform? : An Empirical Decomposition into Style and Flows
Pedraza, Alvaro; Pulga, Fredy; Vasquez, Jose - 2017
This paper studies the trading behavior and performance of foreign investors with different management styles. The analysis uses a comprehensive Colombian data with complete transaction records and unique investor identification, and finds that the aggregate under-performance of foreign...
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Financial Information in Colombia
García Bohórquez, Nidia; Gine, Xavier; Gómez … - 2017
An audit study was conducted in Colombia following the protocols in Gine and Mazer (2017). Trained auditors visited …
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Illicit Activity and Money Laundering from an Economic Growth Perspective : A Model and an Application to Colombia
Loayza, Norman; Misas, Martha; Villa, Edgar - 2016
overlaps not only in a period of high economic growth, but also after the implementation of Plan Colombia. The data set is used …
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Contingent Liabilities Risk Management : A Credit Risk Analysis Framework for Sovereign Guarantees and On-Lending—Country Experiences from Colombia, Indonesia, Sweden, and Turkey
Bachmair, Fritz Florian - 2016
applied in Colombia, Sweden, and Turkey. It also discusses how the proposed framework is applied in Indonesia as it develops a …
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Turkish Treasury Simulation Model for Debt Strategy Analysis
Balibek, Emre; Memis, Hamdi Alper - 2012
Governments raise funds to meet their financing needs using a range of fixed income securities and loans with different maturities, interest rates, and exchange rate structures. Public debt managers need to consider various policy objectives when deciding on the structure of the public liability...
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Fiscal Policy in Colombia : Tapping Its Potential for a More Equitable Society
Moller, Lars Christian - 2012
Colombia has the seventh highest Gini coefficient of income inequality in the world. The Santos Administration is aware … Colombia, meanwhile, direct taxes, indirect taxes, and monetary transfers hardly dent the high Gini coefficient. To reduce … presents an illustrative reform package that would be sufficient for Colombia to reach levels of inequality similar to Chile or …
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