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The Long Trace of Inequality : Evidence from Cundinamarca, Colombia
Galán, Juan Sebastián - 2011
This paper uses historic data from Cundinamarca, Colombia to empirically assess the impact of land inequality …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014181289
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The Biological Standard of Living (and its Convergence) in Colombia, 1870-2003 - A Tropical Success Story
Adolfo Meisel Roca, Adolfo; Vega, Margarita - 2011
During the 20th century, the evolution of the biological standard of living in Colombia was a tropical success story …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014052161
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The Educational Effects of 19th Century Disentailment of Catholic Church Land in Colombia
Fazio, Antonella; Sánchez, Fabio - 2009
Church land during the second half of the 19th century on the accumulation of human capital, in early 20th century Colombia …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014203615
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Apuntes acerca de la Población del Territorio Colombiano al Momento de la Conquista (Notes about the Population of Colombia on the Eve of the Spanish Conquest)
Mejia, Javier - 2015
Spanish Abstract: Este trabajo reflexiona acerca de las estimaciones poblacionales del territorio de la actual Colombia …English Abstract: This paper studies the population estimates for 1500 of the current territory of Colombia. It reviews …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014139224
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Is Extraction Bad? Encomienda and Development in Colombia Since 1560
Faguet, Jean-Paul - 2017
three centuries, on long-term development outcomes in Colombia. Despite being a classically extractive institution … territories they dominated. This stronger local state persisted through Colombia's war of independence and the chronic instability …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012951302
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Foreign Investment and Construction of Railroads in Colombia : The Panama Railroad Co., Case (1850-1869)
Correa, Juan Santiago - 2015
particularly in Colombia, at least from the perspective of foreign investors: the construction and operation of the Panama Railroad …, perhaps most important, in a tangible way to make the concept of nation, this did not happen in Colombia. In addition to the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013038204
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Changes in Returns to Education in Latin America : The Role of Demand and Supply of Skills
Manacorda, Marco - 2010
Using micro data for the urban areas of Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, and Mexico, the authors document trends in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013141538
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Foreign Investment and Construction of Railroads in Colombia : The Panama Railroad Co. (1850-1903)
Correa, Juan Santiago - 2012
and particularly in Colombia, at least from the perspective of foreign investors: the construction and operation of the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013115108
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Colonial Mestizaje and Its Consequences for Human Capital and Early Twentieth Century Regional Industrialization in Colombia
España, Irina - 2012
This paper quantitatively shows that the 1945 regional differences in the degree of development of manufacturing industry are explained by human capital accumulation prior to industrial development. Human capital accumulation was more intense in the regions with higher presence of non white free...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013099572
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Local Authority Systems in the Micro-Political Contexts : A Case of the Armed Conflict in Colombia
Jiménez Varón, Federico José - 2021
conflict in Colombia. The paper attempts to trace expressions of these systems of authority in some of the forms of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013216232