We compile a diverse and interdisciplinary research agenda to address inequalities from a Global South perspective.
Inequalities in Latin America and the global south are deeply intertwined with structural phenomena specific to the region, such as its institutional, cultural and geographic characteristics. From Research, we delve into topics that help draw a broader image of society and its inequalities. This is the basis to guide what we do in Teaching and Outreach.
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Featured research from TREES and its allies
The socioeconomics of COVID and lockd…
Using Bogota’s system of socioeconomic division, the “strata”, we show that f…
Market Concentration, Market Fragment…
Inequality in Latin America is much higher than in Europe and the US. The inc…
EMEs and COVID-19: Shutting Down in a…
Emerging economies are characterized by an extremely high prevalence of infor…
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Into the tropics: Temperature, mortality, and access to health care in Colombia
Author: Juliana Helo Sarmiento
The socioeconomics of COVID and lockdowns outside advanced economies: the case of Bogota
Author: Marcela Eslava, Oscar Becerra, Juan-Camilo Cárdenas, Margarita Isaacs, Daniel Mejia
Market Concentration, Market Fragmentation, and Inequality in Latin America
Author: Marcela Eslava, Marcela Meléndez, Nicolás Urdaneta
EMEs and COVID-19: Shutting Down in a World of Informal and Tiny Firms
Author: Laura Alfaro, Oscar Becerra, Marcela Eslava
The Costs of Bureaucracy and Corruption at Customs: Evidence from the Computerization of Imports in Colombia
Author: Rachid Laajaj, Marcela Eslava, Tidiane Kinda
Protección económica en la vejez de las mujeres en Colombia
Author: Oscar Becerra, Natalia Ramírez Bustamante, Juana Piñeros Ruíz, Ana María Tribín, Daniela Gonzáles
Into the tropics: Temperature, mortality, and access to health care in Colombia
Author: Juliana Helo Sarmiento
The socioeconomics of COVID and lockdowns outside advanced economies: the case of Bogota
Author: Marcela Eslava, Oscar Becerra, Juan-Camilo Cárdenas, Margarita Isaacs, Daniel Mejia
Market Concentration, Market Fragmentation, and Inequality in Latin America
Author: Marcela Eslava, Marcela Meléndez, Nicolás Urdaneta
EMEs and COVID-19: Shutting Down in a World of Informal and Tiny Firms
Author: Laura Alfaro, Oscar Becerra, Marcela Eslava
The Costs of Bureaucracy and Corruption at Customs: Evidence from the Computerization of Imports in Colombia
Author: Rachid Laajaj, Marcela Eslava, Tidiane Kinda
Protección económica en la vejez de las mujeres en Colombia
Author: Oscar Becerra, Natalia Ramírez Bustamante, Juana Piñeros Ruíz, Ana María Tribín, Daniela Gonzáles
Thermal stress and financial distress: Extreme temperatures and firms’ loan defaults in Mexico
Author: Sandra Aguilar-Gomez, EmilioGutierrez, DavidHeres, DavidJaume, Martin Tobal
Weak State Trap
Author: Leopoldo Fergusson, Carlos A. Molina, James A. Robinson
Wealth gradients in early childhood cognitive development in five Latin American countries
Author: Raquel Bernal, Norbert Schady, Jere Behrman, Maria Caridad Araujo, Rodrigo Azuero, David Bravo, Florencia Lopez-Boo, Karen Macours, Daniela Marshall, Christina Paxson, Renos Vakis
Understanding how socioeconomic inequalities drive inequalities in COVID-19 infections
Author: Rachid Laajaj, Duncan Webb, Danilo Aristizabal, Eduardo Behrentz, Raquel Bernal, Giancarlo Buitrago, Zulma Cucunubá, Fernando de la Hoz, Alejandro Gaviria, Luis Jorge Hernández, Camilo De Los Rios, Andrea Ramírez Varela, Silvia Restrepo, Norbert Schady & Martha Vives
Assessing Multiple Inequalities and Air Pollution Abatement Policies
Author: Jorge Bonilla, Claudia Aravena, Ricardo Morales
Direct and Indirect Effects of Lockdown Policies on Poverty and Inequality in Latin America
Author: Oscar Becerra, Andrés Álvarez, Catalina Bernal, Julio Daly, Juliana Quigua, Yyannu Cruz
Inside the Black Box of Child Penalties
Author: Sandra Aguilar-Gomez, Eva Arceo-Gomez, Elia De la Cruz Toledo
Informe sobre Desarrollo Humano para Colombia cuaderno 2. Percepciones y bienestar subjetivo en Colombia: más allá de los indicadores tradicionales
Author: Laura Castillo Bendeck, María Angélica Arbeláez, Claudia Quintero, María Nathalia Ramírez
Wealth inequality and overexploitation of the commons: field experiments in Colombia
Author: Juan Camilo Cárdenas
Economic inequality and burden-sharing in the provision of local environmental quality
Author: Juan Camilo Cárdenas, John Stranlund, Cleve Willis.
The Long Shadow of the Past: Political Economy of Regional Inequality in Colombia
Author: Leopoldo Fergusson, Carlos Molina, James A. Robinson, Juan F. Vargas.
What we do?
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Support to new research
Through funding and open calls to academics in the region, we promote a diverse research agenda to address the multiple dimensions of inequality from different disciplines, methodologies and approaches.
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Development of our research
We open predoctoral, doctoral and research positions to work with TREES principal investigators on topics central to the initiative.
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TREES Research Lab.
We created an interdisciplinary laboratory in which students interested in researching inequality issues participate. At the Research Lab, we also promote spaces for dialogue between students, academics, civil society leaders and public policy makers.
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Events and Products
We organize academic meetings, seminars, workshops and conferences to share the progress and results of our research. Also, we create multimedia products to communicate our findings, put them on the public agenda and enrich conversations about inequalities.