We examine the Zika outbreak in Colombia in 2015 to determine how a negative shock affects female behaviors related to fertility. Our empirical strategy combines Zika reports and Demographic health surveys to distinguish the responses according to their marital status and it is based on an...

Este trabajo presenta una discusión de los retornos a la inversión en educación y su estimación para el caso colombiano. Se utilizaron dos bases de datos en diferentes periodos del tiempo. Una encuesta realizada para trabajadores bogotanos en 1988 y la de la la Encuesta de Calidad de Vida de...

What happens to children during the early years is recognized to be very important for their long run development. It is also increasingly clear that the skills that are relevant for economic success and more generally well-being are multidimensional, including different types of socioemotional...