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The Effect of the Kangaroo Mother Care Program (KMC) on Wages: A structural Model
(CAF, 2016-04-14)
In this paper we analyze the relationship between skills and some outcomes later in life for a population of premature children. Pretreatment skills and characteristics are good predictors of childhood and adulthood skills ...
Economic Shocks and Crime: Evidence from the Crash of Ponzi Schemes
(CAF, 2016-03-14)
In November 2008, Colombian authorities dismantled a network of Ponzi schemes, making hundreds of thousands of investors lose tens of millions of dollars throughout the country. Using original data on the geographical ...
A Taxonomy of Colombia’s Informal Labor Market
(2016)
A taxonomy of the informal labor market is extremely important to understand and handle informality, particularly in a country as Colombia where this phenomenon is large and heterogeneous. As we will argue in this paper, ...
The impact of lowering the payroll tax on informality in Colombia
(2016)
The Colombian government recently reformed the tax law by reducing payroll contributions from 29.5% to 16% and substituting them with a profit tax. The law was passed in December 2012, and two years later the informality ...