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Do Cognitive and Noncognitive Skills Explain the Gender Wage Gap in Middle-Income Countries? An Analysis Using Step Data

Tognatta, Namrata - 2017

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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Illicit Activity and Money Laundering from an Economic Growth Perspective : A Model and an Application to Colombia

Villa, Edgar - 2017

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 - 2017

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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Unpacking the Mpi : A Decomposition Approach of Changes in Multidimensional Poverty Headcounts

Perez Perez, Jorge - 2017

multidimensional poverty in Colombia, finding that the dimensions associated with education and health are the main drivers behind the …

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Beyond Qualifications : Returns to Cognitive and Socio-Emotional Skills in Colombia

Acosta, Pablo - 2017

-age population of Colombia?s urban areas. Using a 2012 unique household survey, the paper finds that cognitive skills (aptitudes to …

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Are Public Libraries Improving Quality of Education? When the Provision of Public Goods is Not Enough

Rodríguez-Lesmes, Paul Andrés - 2017

in Bogot?, 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 - 2017

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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Asset Price Effects of Peer Benchmarking : Evidence from a Natural Experiment

Acharya, Sushant - 2017

This paper estimates the effects of peer benchmarking by institutional investors on asset prices. To identify trades purely due to peer benchmarking as separate from those based on fundamentals or private information, the paper exploits a natural experiment involving a change in a government...

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Measuring Inequality from Top to Bottom

Diaz Bazan, Tania Valeria - 2017

income level that triggers mandatory tax filing. The proposed methodology is applied to the case of Colombia …

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Broken Gears : The Value Added of Higher Education on Teachers'Academic Achievement

Balcázar Salazar, Carlos - 2017

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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