The main purpose of this study was to evaluate the cost-benefit, cost-utility, and cost-effectiveness of cochlear implantation, comparing it to the use of hearing aids in children with profound bilateral sensorineural hearing loss.The nonparametric propensity score matching method was used to...

This article is an empirical study about flexible and conventional functional forms of coffee production, minflex Laurent Translog function econometrically has been established in Colombia coffee zone for the farm size (smallholders, medium and large farms, general sector), using a stochastic...

La eficiencia técnica es un concepto relativo, utilizado convencionalmente, para saber si un productor obtiene el máximo nivel de producción, de acuerdo a la cantidad insumos empleados en el proceso. El presente estudio, con datos microeconómicos de los caficultores del país, determinó...

For decades, public transport has been one of the major problems faced by Bogota city. TransMilenio, the massive transport system, was introduced seeking for an improvement in public transport’s efficiency and productivity, and its main purpose is to achieve a reduction in the passenger’s...

The natural resources economics, allows to get to know the shape sustainable extractions to opencast coal mining projects at the middle of the Cesar-Colombia. Thus, this study with financial information and total productions cost (estimated by means of panel data model with random effects), from...

Spanish Abstract: El principal objetivo de este estudio fue calcular Indicadores de progreso social - segregación espacial, calidad de vida y capacidad de pago - para Bogotá y 31 municipios de Cundinamarca utilizando modelos espaciales de precios hedónicos y análisis de componentes...

Several articles have theoretically and empirically verified favorable changes in the value (per square meter) of properties near urban mass transit infrastructure. The main purpose of this study was to demonstrate this effect under an unbiased specification using Geographical Information...

Several articles have confirmed the social and environmental consequences of opencast coal mining. The main purpose of this study is to simulate the optimal extraction policy of coal mining with and without the internalization of the environmental and social monetary costs that occur in the...

This article presents an application of the Ramsey Pricing approach to establish the price cap or pricing ceiling per minute for the parking lot service in Bogotá (Colombia), using the microeconomic framework for price fixing from a costs analysis (total fixed costs, total variables costs,...

Spanish Abstract: El principal objetivo de este documento es examinar la reducción de la accidentalidad vial en el área metropolitana de Barranquilla (AMBAQ), Colombia, a partir de la implementación del bus de tránsito rápido (BTR) Transmetro, y estimar económicamente los beneficios...