Examinando por Autor "Saavedra-Caballero, Fabiola"

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    Decisions about Postsecondary Education, their Returns in Colombia
    (American Research Institute for Policy Development., 2014-09) Ospina-Londoño,Monica; Saavedra-Caballero, Fabiola; Universidad Eafit,Escuela de Economía y Finanzas, Medellín, Antioquia, Colombia; Universidad Eafit,Escuela de Economía y Finanzas, Medellín, Antioquia, Colombia; Escuela de Economía y Finanzas; Economía; Estudios en Economía y Empresa
    This study analyzes the economic returns to schooling decisions made by high school graduates in Colombia. We wanted to verify if the economic returns (wages) obtained by new postsecondary education graduates compensate for the economic and psychological investment they made to get that academic degree. To answer that question, we estimated these economic returns for each type of postsecondary degree available in Colombia (technical education, technological education, undergraduate studies, graduate studies) by origin of the institution (public or private). Our methodological strategy includes the generation of a micro-database that contains agents’ socio-economic backgrounds and also their individual labor market outcomes. Because agents with very similar characteristics and the same schooling decisions might obtain different economic returnsfrom education, we considered as part of our empirical strategy the inclusion of an approximation of agents’ cognitive abilities.
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    Gender and financial inclusion in Colombia
    (Universidad EAFIT, 2018-06-18) Cardona Ruiz, Daniel Elifonso; Hoyos, Maria Camila; Saavedra-Caballero, Fabiola; Avery Dennison; Grupo SURA; Université Catholique de Louvain
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    Social Assistance and Informality: Examining the link in Colombia
    (Universidad EAFIT, 2013-08-20) Monica Ospina Londoño, Monica; Saavedra-Caballero, Fabiola
    This paper presents evidence on the labor market effects of social assistance programs in the short and medium run. We evaluate the impacts of a Conditional Cash Transfer program (Familias en Acción) on informality in Colombia. We exploit an exogenous shock linked to cash transfer benefits that the government provides to poor people to evaluate the effect of these benefits on informality. We argue that being a beneficiary of social programs may create perverse incentives that drive people towards informality through a substitution effect. Survey data of “Familias en Acción” program was used to identify whether the program had any effect on workers’ labor decisions concerning participation (or the lack thereof) in the informal labor market in Colombia after one and four years after its implementation. We apply matching algorithms and difference-in-differences estimations to evaluate the effect of the program. We find that a worker’s informality condition may be affected by receiving CCT income and by the structure of the colombian health system.