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AbstractThe role of education in promoting social mobility has been highlighted in the literature. But how much  mobility have high-quality universities yielded historically? This research focuses on a case study of historical social mobility in access to high-quality education in…
Approach This study examines the evolution of gender roles and time use in Colombia throughout the 20th century and into the 21st, using microdata from the population censuses conducted between 1964 and 2018, as well as the National Time Use Surveys (ENUT) from 2016–2017 and 2020–2021. These…
AbstractColombia experienced one of the fastest declines in fertility in the world: children per woman fell from 7 in 1960 to 3 in 1985. Despite the country's significant inequalities, the regional aspect of this decline has been overlooked in previous research. This article examines…
AbstractAcross the world educated women tend to have fewer children than their less-educated peers. This paper provides new stylised facts about the long-run relationship between women’s education and fertility at both the national and individual levels. I focus on Colombia, a…
AbstractCan radio campaigns affect fertility? This paper examines the impact of a national radio campaign promoting family planning clinics in late 1960s Colombia on the country's rapid fertility decline. The campaign, initiated by Profamilia in 1969, provided information about the location of…
AbstractThis paper examines the career path of women in central banks, particularly at the Banco de la República of Colombia throughout its 100-year history, and also examines the experience of other central banks around the world to provide an international context. Given the scarce historical…
Since: 1999
AbstractLa Matuna is an area located in the heart of the historic center of Cartagena de Indias, between El Centro, San Diego and Getsemaní, which makes it an area of special interest for the city. Despite its location and some constructions that occurred at the end of the 19th century…
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Since: 1960
We test current account sustainability based on the framework developed by Hakkio and Rush [1991] and Husted [1992] using a two-regime threshold vector error correction model. This methodology allows us to characterize short-run nonlinearities in the current account. We estimate the model for four…
Find information on the economic activity of eight regions of the country during the third quarter of the year in the most recent Regional Economic Bulletins (Boletines Económicos Regionales, BER).
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Exports Gold purchases Services & transferences Capital revenues
    CURRENT SITUATION OF THE COLOMBIAN ECONOMY
CURRENT SITUATION OF THE COLOMBIAN ECONOMYThis is the first edition of a new publication by the Governor of the Central Bank of Colombia. It is addressed to citizens, analysts, and domestic and foreign investors interested in learning about the most recent events in the Colombian economy, and their…
As the community knows, Banco de la República holds a free-use contract with the Society of Public Improvements of Barranquilla to use the Amira de la Rosa Theater since 19 June 1980. Since then, the venue has been administered and maintained by the Central Bank for cultural activities, holding…
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Purchase and Sale Prices for Precious Metals
Preliminary and delayed Colombian GDP reports are replaced with optimal in-sample now-casts of “true” GDP figures derived from a model for data revisions. The new GDP time series is augmented with optimal out-of-sample forecasts and back-casts of the “true” GDP figures derived from the same model.…
Hard to believe it has been 25 years since the first central bank modeling workshop. The title of the first workshop was “Monetary Policy Under Uncertainty”.  It was the time of the inflation-targeting pioneers.  In addition, at the beginning of 1990s, the Bank of Canada developed…
Hard to believe it has been 25 years since the first central bank modeling workshop. The title of the first workshop was “Monetary Policy Under Uncertainty”.  It was the time of the inflation-targeting pioneers.  In addition, at the beginning of 1990s, the Bank of Canada developed…
Hard to believe it has been 25 years since the first central bank modeling workshop. The title of the first workshop was “Monetary Policy Under Uncertainty”.  It was the time of the inflation-targeting pioneers.  In addition, at the beginning of 1990s, the Bank of Canada developed…