Seminario PePe - Andrea Otero

Este estudio examina las transformaciones históricas en el uso del tiempo y los roles de género en Colombia a lo largo del siglo XX, así como su persistencia hoy en día. A partir de microdatos censales y de las Encuestas Nacionales de Uso del Tiempo, documentamos la evolución del trabajo remunerado y no remunerado en cinco generaciones de mujeres y hombres. Los resultados muestran un rápido incremento en la participación femenina en el mercado laboral, particularmente entre las mujeres con mayores niveles educativos.

Seminario PePe - Fernando Arce

Why do countries set sovereign debt ceilings if they keep raising them? This paper shows that debt ceilings can serve as intermediate commitment devices that reduce expected dilution, thereby lowering spreads—and their volatility—even without reducing total borrowing. We propose a new sovereign default model with long-term debt in which each government inherits a previously announced ceiling but may revise it by paying a political or institutional deviation cost. This friction generates a state-dependent form of partial commitment.

Seminario CEDE - Fernando Fernandez

Millions of people depend on artisanal and small-scale gold mining (ASGM) for their livelihoods, yet transitions toward cleaner and more formal mining business models remain rare despite decades of policy interventions. We study the sources of this persistence in the Peruvian Amazon using novel survey data collected from concession owners and workers in Madre de Dios.