Delve into ideas, findings and news to broaden the conversation about inequalities.
Podcast
Caring, nurturing and getting ahead: inequality begins in childhood
In the second episode of El juego de la vida, the videopodcast of TREES and the documentary film directed by Andrés Ruiz Zuluaga, we talk about motherhood, caregiving, teenage pregnancy and the inequalities that begin to mark life from early childhood.
When not everyone counts the same: Why inequality is not just in the checkbook?
In this masterclass, Leopoldo Fergusson, full professor at the School of Economics of the Universidad de los Andes and co-founder of TREES, explores the cultural dimensions of inequality based on everyday examples and research findings.
The game of life: a videopodcast to discuss inequality, social mobility and Colombia
Based on the film El juego de la vida, TREES and its director, Andrés Ruiz, launch a new videopodcast that opens conversations about inequality, social mobility, early childhood, classism, education, privilege and territory in Colombia.
In this report we share what we have done between 2023 and 2025 in our three areas of work: Research, Teaching and Outreach. Here you will find our main achievements, learnings and challenges.
TREES Challenge: researching with communities transforms the way we understand inequalities
The TREES Challenge: revealing classisms (2024-2025) brought together undergraduate and master's students from different disciplines and regions of the country (add data and number of students) in an immersive and collaborative experience aimed at designing strategies to strengthen social cohesion.
Second TREES Research Grant Fund Workshop at the Universidad de los Andes
This TREES special brings together data, voices and perspectives to understand the challenges of the Colombian labor market and open a critical conversation on informality, gender, youth and equity.
Juan Sebastián Lemos strengthens his research skills during his stay at Harvard
With the support of TREES, Juan Sebastián Lemos lived a formative experience at Harvard that strengthened his research, broadened his international perspective and reaffirmed his academic vocation.
The first four Brown Bag Seminars of TREES and El COLMEX
TREES and PRAEM organized Brown Bag Seminars to discuss research on inequality in Latin America and promote exchange between researchers from both institutions.
Informalities of the global south: towards a research agenda.
Seminar organized by TREES and PRAEM on labor informality in the global south, where this phenomenon was analyzed beyond the traditional division between formal and informal.
The Washington Consensus in Latin America: what did we learn and where are we going?
A discussion at the Universidad de los Andes analyzed the effects and limits of the Washington Consensus in Latin America and the current challenges of inequality, inclusion and economic policy.