Borradores de Economia
Number:
844
Published:
Classification JEL:
J01, J22, O18, R21
Keywords:
Human capital agglomeration, Social returns, Private returns, Externalities, Uncertainty, Fiscal policy
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José Vicente Romero-Chamorro, Hernando Vargas-Herrera
Juan Camilo Medellín-Martínez, Sergio Restrepo Ángel
Andrea Sofía Otero-Cortés, Karina Acosta, Jhorland Ayala-García, Oriana Álvarez Vos, Sara Rojas
Using data from Medellín, second largest city in Colombia, we asses in this paper how a set of neighborhood characteristics determines wages and labor supply for workers in the city. We use GIS data to construct measures of the quality of environments whe