This document estimates the returns to education in Bogotá in 1997 and 2003 by means of Heckman’s maximum likelihood methodology. We found a reduction in the returns to education and in the impact of experience in Bogotá between these years. Labor income also decreases. (Se estima la tasa de...

We study the effect of learning another language on the social and individual welfare by a people group who do not know that language. We use network economics approach in order to take into account the externalities of languages. The equilibrium with decentralized choices is not as good as the...

Applying Benefit Incidence Analysis we assessed the redistributive impact of public policies concerned with education in Bogotá. Though the household choices about public or private schooling are decentralized and respond to market constraints, the public provision policy of education achieves...

We employ the measures traditionally used to analyze poverty, for studying the differences in the Body Mass Index (BMI) scores, according to the age and other socioeconomic variables, for people between 20 and 60. We use information from Demographic and Health Survey (DHS, 2005). We find that...

We test the existence of changes in the relationship between fertility and schooling in Colombia for women from 30 to 40 years old between 1995 and 2005. For our purpose, we use Poisson Regression Models. Our database is the Demographic and Health Survey from 1995 and 2005. We found a reduction...

Access to mobile telephony in Colombia exhibits rather interesting features compared to other countries. Colombia witnessed the beginning of a new alternative for communication consisting in the use of informal resale of minutes on the streets and small stores during the first years of this...