The cruise industry has become a significant component of the Colombian tourism economy, and Cartagena de Indias has become the largest cruise port in the country. The present paper aims to provide a better understanding of the cruise industry by considering the expenditure of cruise ship...

This paper characterizes household spending in education using microdata from income and expenditure surveys for twelve Latin American and Caribbean countries and the United States. Bahamas, Chile, and Mexico have the highest household spending in education and Bolivia, Brazil, and Paraguay have...