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Carlos Alberto Medina-Durango

Ph.D. en Economía

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Gerente - Medellín

Medellín, Colombia

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Civil Engineer (EIA), M.A. and Ph. D. in Economics (NYU). Previously worked as Regional Chief Economist and researcher at the Medellín Branch at Banco de la República. Before joining the Banco de la República: Director of Social Development at the Department of National Planning of Colombia, Deputy Director at the Administrative Department of National Statistics of Colombia, and professor and researcher at the Department of Economics of Universidad de los Andes. Has taught in the Departments of Economics of Universidad Javeriana, Universidad de Antioquia, Universidad EAFIT, and Universidad Autónoma Latinoamericana.

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(2023), Intragenerational mobility and the concept of the equalization of longer-term incomes: An estimation for a developing country, SOCIO-ECONOMIC PLANNING SCIENCES, 86

(2023), Formal Employment and Organised Crime: Regression Discontinuity Evidence from Colombia, ECONOMIC JOURNAL, 133, (654), (pp. 2427–2448)

(2021), Job Loss, Credit, and Crime in Colombia, AAmerican Economic Review Insights, 3, (1), (pp. 97-114)

(2018), Cambio técnico y polarización en el mercado laboral. Evidencia para Colombia, TRIMESTRE ECONOMICO, 85, (2), (pp. 365-410)

(2018), Calidad, cobertura y costos ocultos de la educación secundaria pública y privada en Colombia, DESARROLLO Y SOCIEDAD, (81), (pp. 61-114)

Book chapters

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(2012), Dinámica de la demanda laboral en la industria manufacturera colombiana 1993-2009: una estimación panel VAR, El mercado de trabajo en Colombia : hechos, tendencias e instituciones, (pp. 289-330), https://repositorio.banrep.gov.co/bitstream/handle/20.500.12134/6571/?sequence=2

(2010), The Cost of Avoiding Crime: The Case of Bogotá, The Economics of Crime: Lessons for and from Latin America, (pp. 101-132), https://www.nber.org/system/files/chapters/c11835/c11835.pdf

(2010), Quality of Life in Urban Neighborhoods of Bogotá and Medellín, Colombia, The Quality of Life in Latin American Cities: Markets and Perception, https://publications.iadb.org/publications/english/document/The-Quality-of-Life-in-Latin-American-Cities-Markets-and-Perception.pdf

Working Papers

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(2025), Spatial Mobility, Economic Opportunity, and Crime, Borradores de Economia, (1334)

(2021), Long Term Effects of Cash Transfer Programs in Colombia, Borradores de Economia, (1170)

(2019), Job Loss, Credit and Crime in Colombia, Borradores de Economia, (1095)

(2019), Becas Escolares, Mercados Laborales y Educación Vocacional, Borradores de Economia, (1087)

(2019), Twin instrument, fertility and women’s labor force participation: evidence from Colombian low-income families, Borradores de Economia, (1071)

Journal Ensayos sobre Política Económica

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(2026), Revista Ensayos Sobre Política Económica - Exploring gender gaps in Colombia, (111), (pp. 120)

(2025), New Evidence on Labor and Firm Informality in Colombia, Bogotá, Colombia, (108), (pp. 75)

(2020), Migration Waves from Venezuela in Colombia: phenomenon characterization and analysis of the macroeconomic effects, ENSAYOS SOBRE POLITICA ECONOMICA**, (97), (pp. 1-74)

Ph.D. en Economía, Universidad de Nueva York, 2001
M.A. en Economía, Universidad de Nueva York, 1998
Especialización en Política Económica, Universidad de Antioquia, 1993
Ingeniería Civil, Escuela de Ingeniería de Antioquia, 1990

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