We use the stochastic frontier approach to estimate the reservation wage across different cities in Colombia. Using the Household Surveys from 2008–2019 for 23 urban cities, we find empirical evidence supporting search ...

This paper examines the joint dynamics of population and economic performance using panel data from the 32 Mexican states throughout the period 1940-2020. The analysis considers the population growth rate and per capita ...

We examine whether and how the educational background of political leaders matters for policy choices and outcomes. Using data on municipalities in Brazil from 2000–2008, we estimate the effects of electing a more educated ...

Social returns of education are all the benefits that accrue to society resulting from an increase in its citizens’ overall education level. This paper addresses the relationship between regional criminal activities and ...

Identifying how efficient public schools are – that is, the academic performance they can generate with the available inputs – is relevant information for designing public policies to improve education quality. Using a ...

Using data for the Chilean mining sector, I provide SVAR evidence in order to answer the research question regarding which are the distributional consequences that commodity price shocks have in labour market outcomes for ...

This paper seeks to examine if there is a causal link between terrorist incidents and foreign direct investment in the cases of Colombia and Peru, using large-scale and up-to-date data. The data of both parameters from the ...

This research explores the long-term equilibrium relationship between unemployment and labour force participation rates for six selected countries in Latin America at both aggregate and gender-disaggregated levels. ...

In recent decades, sudden massive migration influxes have become a new driving force of migration increases. These types of migration flows present potential challenges to social and economic integration. In this paper, ...

We estimate the term premium implicit in 10-year Mexican government bonds from 2004 to 2019, and analyze the main determinants explaining its dynamics. We decompose the long-term interest rate into its two components: the ...