Investigación - TREES Uniandes

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...

Inequality in Latin America is much higher than in Europe and the US. The income distribution in the region is also much more skewed,...

Emerging economies are characterized by an extremely high prevalence of informality, small-firm employment and jobs not fit for working...

Customs face a difficult tradeoff between, on one side, collecting tariff revenues and preventing smuggling, and on the other side,...

En este documento estudiamos la magnitud, las causas y consecuencias de las desigualdades de género que existen en el sistema previsional...

The frequency and intensity of extreme weather events are likely to increase with climate change. Although a growing body of literature...

Development outcomes come in ‘clusters’ that seem difficult to exit. Using original data from Colombia, we present evidence...

Research from the United States shows that gaps in early cognitive and non-cognitive ability appear early in the life cycle. Little...

Across the world, the SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19) pandemic has disproportionately affected economically disadvantaged groups. This differential...

Addressing inequality is recognized a worldwide development objective. The literature has primarily focused on examining economic or...

We estimate the possible effects on poverty and income distribution of the crisis unleashed by Covid-19 on a group of Latin America...

Recentwork, mostly based on developed countries, has highlighted the negative effects of motherhood on labor market outcomes as a persistent...