[PDF] Top 20 The Long Trace of Inequality: Evidence from Cundinamarca, Colombia

... in the province of Santa ...grazing. The agricultural frontier and technology did not change much during the colonial ...blamed the land structure for the abysmal agricultural ... See full document

... in the 70s. The picture of income inequality from that decade on is hence ...and The World Bank) shed additional light on the issue by starting to generate periodical ... See full document

... time, the sample was restricted to the seven cities that were present in all surveys (account for 60% of the urban population and are very heterogeneous), and observations were discarded ... See full document

... for the conflicting inequality-growth results in the literature is that the relationship may differ for short and for long periods (for example 5-10 versus 25-30 ...in inequality ... See full document

... in the tables a single line for each ...although the survey in El Salvador 2000 includes non- monetary income, in the tables we show statistics without those incomes to preserve comparability with ... See full document

... in the early evaluation to select comparable control areas, a comparison of baseline characteristics between treated and control children in our sample using standardized t-tests and normalized differences, ... See full document

... like the Mexican program Progresa , Familias en Accion directly affects household food consumption, particularly protein and cereal (Attanasio, Battistin, Fitzsimons, Mesnard, & Vera-Hernández, 2005), meaning ... See full document

... on the population (Akresh, Verwimp, & Bundervoet, 2011; Camacho, 2008; Ibáñez & Moya, 2010; Stewart & Fitzgerald, ...However, the economic costs of violence go beyond direct victimization ... See full document

... Equality of opportunity is a concept that has been discussed and developed in the philosophical and economic literature over the last ...organize the discussion. 3 This long-lasting ... See full document

... exacerbate the detrimental impact that inequality may have on investments and output over time (Aghion et ...percentage of the population is credit-constrained, they and their offspring, in ... See full document

... facts. The location of the state was determined by the location of the colonial state and we argued that this set in motion a number of path dependent ...leading ... See full document

... include the work of Card and Krueger (1995a), who (as corroborated by Doucouliagos and Stanley, 2009) created a 'schism within the economy by reporting quasi-experimental and econometric ... See full document

... In the former, the subsidy did not trigger a change in real rates in ...be the case is an open question that the regression itself does not ...to the falling demand in UVR loans (Figure ... See full document

... set of results in Table 2 we report the estimations of Equation ...measure of conflict we report coefficients with (columns with even numbers) and without (columns with odd numbers) ...above ... See full document

... aim of this paper is to evaluate to what extent the conditions to claim pension benefits in a fully-funded system affect the intensive labor supply in Colombia; for this purpose we take ... See full document

... tests the hypothesis of the Kuznets Curve which relates economic growth, measured by GDP per capita and inequality, measured by the GINI coefficient, for a sample of 12 Latin ... See full document

... part of the modern capitalist economy and have some capacity for capital ...in the formal sector through the supply of low-cost goods and services for workers in formal ...between ... See full document

... number of interesting features of the relationship emerge from this ...between the two asset classes for all equity indices ...periods of positive stock market news as investors ... See full document

... Given the usual identification concerns pertaining to the potential reverse causality between conflict and poverty, or the presence of omitted variables, it is difficult to identify the ... See full document

... El contenido de la presente publicación se encuentra protegido por las normas internacionales y nacionales vigentes sobre propiedad intelectual, por tanto su utilización, reproducción, [r] ... See full document