Stratification and public utility services in Colombia: subsidies to households or distortions on housing prices?

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Borradores de Economía; No. 422
Date published
2006-12-05
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2006-12-05
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Medina-Durango, Carlos Alberto
Morales-Zurita, Leonardo Fabio
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spa
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Abstract
Domiciliary public utility services in Colombia have a cross subsidy system which charges subsidized rates to the households who live in houses located in strata associated to low wealth levels, and taxed rates to the better off. We assesses the hypothesi
JEL Codes
I3 - Welfare, Well-Being, and PovertyH24 - Personal Income and Other Nonbusiness Taxes and SubsidiesH22 - IncidenceH4 - Publicly Provided GoodsD31 - Personal Income, Wealth, and Their DistributionsC0 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods: General
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Targeting of subsidies ; Incidence ; Stratification ; Segregation ; Hedonic price models ; Regression discontinuity design ;
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https://repositorio.banrep.gov.co/handle/20.500.12134/5440
https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12134/5440
https://doi.org/10.32468/be.422
https://ideas.repec.org/p/bdr/borrec/422.html
https://ideas.repec.org/p/col/000094/003528.html
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