Medellín, Colombia

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  • An Assessment of How Urban Crime and Victimization Affect Life Satisfaction

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    El crimen en Medellín es un crimen organizado, en lucha de un control territorial.Un problema fundamental de la incidencia del crimen en Medellín es el uso de armas de fuego. Gaviria et al. (2010), argumenta que un problema del crimen en Colombia es el fácil acceso a un arma de fuego. Krug et al.

  • Estimation and Testing An Additive Partially Linear Model in a System of Engel Curves

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    The form of the Engel curve has long been a subject of discussion in applied econometrics and until now there has no been definitive conclusion about its form. In this paper an additive partially linear model is used to estimate semiparametrically the effect of total expenditure in the context…

  • The Cost of Avoiding Crime: The Case of Bogotá

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    We use hedonic price models to estimate the value households are willing to pay to avoid crime, and in particular, high homicides rates, in Bogotá. We and find that households living in the highest socioeconomic stratum, stratum 6, are paying up to 7.2% of their house values to keep their…

  • Assortative Matching and the Education Gap

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    This paper attempts to explain the decrease and reversal of the education gap between males and females. The education decisions of heterogeneous agents are modelled as an assignment game with endogenous types. In the first stage agents choose their education level and in the second they…