Etiqueta: Investigación

Using Bogota’s system of socioeconomic division, the “strata”, we show that falling ill with a serious case of COVID has been over...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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...