This paper studies the relationship between school and home investments in the cognitive development of children and the behavior of the actors involved in the process. I employ large-scale administrative and survey data from Chile to estimate how parents and children in primary and secondary school adjust their time investment in response to classroom and teacher quality. Since classroom inputs are not directly observed, I first estimate the production function for cognitive skills that provides measures of classroom and teacher quality.

Standard economic analyses of environmental policy focus on either reducing pollution externalities through mitigation or reducing the harms from exposure by encouraging adaptation. In practice, these issues are both critical, particularly when looking at the health effects of local air pollutants, which can be acute, and policymakers often pair information provision with short and long-run mitigation actions. This paper studies one widely used example of such a policy— air quality alerts.

Research on the effects of police presence tends to focus on the impact such policies have on crime rates. Less is known about how much individuals value place-based policing strategies. This paper fills this gap by estimating the willingness-to-pay (WTP) to avoid crime using housing market data in the three largest cities of Colombia. Specifically, I study the effects of 100 newly constructed police stations on crime and property values using an instrumented difference-in-differences design.

La Facultad de Economía de la Universidad de los Andes y el CEDE (Centro de Estudios sobre Desarrollo Económico), tienen el gusto de invitarlos al CONGRESO DE ECONOMÍA COLOMBIANA – 50 años CEDE que se realizará en Bogotá – Colombia, el 2 y 3 de octubre de 2008 en el Edificio Mario Laserna de la Universidad de los Andes.

Entrada libre sin costo, con previa inscripción por internet. Informamos que las inscripciones se han cerrado. Cupo lleno.

Latin American and Caribbean Economic Association – LACEA

Universidad de los Andes - Economics Department - Fedesarrollo

Political Economy Group - PEG

IX Meeting, Cartagena, June 12-13, 2008

Presenta los resultados de la investigación “Deserción en educación superior: determinantes y recomendaciones de política” realizado por Fabio Sánchez y un grupo de colegas de la Facultad de Economía y del Ministerio de Educación Nacional. La investigación lleva a cabo un diagnóstico detallado de la deserción en la educación superior e identifica algunas de sus posibles causas. Para ello, el CEDE y el Ministerio de Educación Superior compilaron una extensa y valiosa base de datos con información de las Instituciones de Educación Superior colombianas.