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Dynamics and causes of crime in Colombia
(2004-05)
"This paper adds to previous research on the causes of crime in Colombia by using a new dataset and better econometric estimations. The paper es a "meta" study on the past empirical research on crime. Based on microeconomic foundations,it test several hypotheses in crime. In concrete, the first finding is that drug crimes are highly correlated with other crimes. as some theories suggest, drug activities affect the ...
Efficiency of colombian schools
(2003-09)
"The main goal of this paper is to study the efficiency of Colombian schools with an eye on understanding what drives school productivity and how much is to be gained by increasing efficiency. The paper uses Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) to study efficiency and a Tobit model to study the determinants of efficiency. Introduction. The main goal of this paper is to study the efficiency of Colombian schools with an eye ...