The first year of TREES
En este primer año de trabajo, construimos alianzas, logros y avances que constituyen la base y el comienzo de TREES como iniciativa.
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Claudia Goldin and the Importance of Gender Perspective in Economic Studies
Claudia Goldin, economista estadounidense y destacada profesora de Harvard, hizo historia el 5 octubre de 2023 al convertirse en la...
Complexity Global School
Las postulaciones para la segunda versión del Complexity Global School, que se llevará a cabo en la Universidad de los Andes, Colombia,...
The graphic identity of TREES
Desde la creación de TREES, la conversación con otras disciplinas ha sido clave para encontrar posibilidades distintas de crear y comunicar...
Into the tropics: Temperature, mortality, and access to health care in Colombia
This paper analyzes the relationship between temperature, mortality, and adaptation opportunities in a tropical country. Such countries...
The socioeconomics of COVID and lockdowns outside advanced economies: the case of Bogota
Using Bogota’s system of socioeconomic division, the “strata”, we show that falling ill with a serious case of COVID has been over eight...
Market Concentration, Market Fragmentation, and Inequality in Latin America
Inequality in Latin America is much higher than in Europe and the US. The income distribution in the region is also much more skewed,...
EMEs and COVID-19: Shutting Down in a World of Informal and Tiny Firms
Emerging economies are characterized by an extremely high prevalence of informality, small-firm employment and jobs not fit for working...
The Costs of Bureaucracy and Corruption at Customs: Evidence from the Computerization of Imports in Colombia
Customs face a difficult tradeoff between, on one side, collecting tariff revenues and preventing smuggling, and on the other side,...
Protección económica en la vejez de las mujeres en Colombia
En este documento estudiamos la magnitud, las causas y consecuencias de las desigualdades de género que existen en el sistema previsional...
Thermal stress and financial distress: Extreme temperatures and firms’ loan defaults in Mexico
The frequency and intensity of extreme weather events are likely to increase with climate change. Although a growing body of literature...
Weak State Trap
Development outcomes come in ‘clusters’ that seem difficult to exit. Using original data from Colombia, we present evidence...