En este artículo se presenta una revisíon en la que se identifican cuatro ramas distintas de la modelación de la economía informal en la literatura, a saber: modelos duales, modelos de...

El presente capítulo se centra en un espacio geográfico específico, el Barrio Minuto de Dios. Desde una perspectiva histórica se puede observar su construcción paulatina gracias a la visión del Padre...

The effect of regulation on the proliferation of informal settlements is unclear. While stricter regulations can provide policy makers with tools for control them (welfare economic approach), they can also constitute...

We study the provision of a public project that globally behaves as a public good but locally behaves as a private bad. This scenario imposes two problems: (i) finding a compensation...

We conducted an audit experiment to examine whether street vendors in Bogot´a (Colombia) exert price discrimination based on buyers’ attributes, such as gender and nationality; and based on product characteristics, such...

Exploiting the implementation of a Prepaid Electricity Program in the region ofAntioquia (Colombia), we estimate the impact that switching to a prepaid program has on users’ energy consumption behavior. In particular,...

Unemployment and informality are widespread phenomena in the Colombian economy that affect people with different profiles. This working paper discusses how the vacancy database can be used to build a detection...

The COVID-19 pandemic and its social distancing measures have brought unprecedented socio-economic challenges worldwide. One of the most urgent questions is how the labour force will be affected by the pandemic....

Las economías de escala presentes en las ciudades han jugado un rol preponderante en la reducción de la pobreza, tanto monetaria como multidimensional. Los rendimientos crecientes que generan las vecindades han...

We propose a lab experiment to understand if and how resource restrictions and uncertainty on the relative needs of future beneficiaries affect physicians’ resource allocation decisions. When there are incentives to...