Weak State Trap
Development outcomes come in ‘clusters’ that seem difficult to exit. Using original data from Colombia, we present...
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Wealth gradients in early childhood cognitive development in five Latin American countries
Research from the United States shows that gaps in early cognitive and non-cognitive ability appear early in the life cycle. Little...
Understanding how socioeconomic inequalities drive inequalities in COVID-19 infections
Across the world, the SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19) pandemic has disproportionately affected economically disadvantaged groups. This...
Assessing Multiple Inequalities and Air Pollution Abatement Policies
Addressing inequality is recognized a worldwide development objective. The literature has primarily focused on examining economic...
Direct and Indirect Effects of Lockdown Policies on Poverty and Inequality in Latin America
We estimate the possible effects on poverty and income distribution of the crisis unleashed by Covid-19 on a group of Latin America...
Inside the Black Box of Child Penalties
Recentwork, mostly based on developed countries, has highlighted the negative effects of motherhood on labor market outcomes as a...
Informe sobre Desarrollo Humano para Colombia cuaderno 2. Percepciones y bienestar subjetivo en Colombia: más allá de los indicadores tradicionales
El segundo cuaderno de Desarrollo Humano “Percepciones y bienestar subjetivo en Colombia. Más allá de los indicadores...
Economic inequality and burden-sharing in the provision of local environmental quality
A large, but inconclusive, literature addresses how economic heterogeneity affects the use of local resources and local...
The Long Shadow of the Past: Political Economy of Regional Inequality in Colombia
We study the nature of regional inequality in Colombia over the past 200 years. The main empirical fact is that regional inequality...
TREES Research Grant Fund II
TREES (Teaching and Researching Equitable Economics from the South), an initiative of the Center for Studies on Economic...
University of California at Berkeley
University of California at Berkeley: Su iniciativa Berkeley Economy and Society Initiative busca profundizar en los estudios sobre...
University College London
University College London: El Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose (IIPP) busca cambiar la forma en que se imagina, practica...