We study an innovative welfare program in Chile which combines a period of frequent home visits to households in …

in Chile. Using eight rounds of household surveys, we find that adolescents who were born to teen mothers, those that …

opportunities to engage in risky sexual behaviors. Using Chile's socio-economic household surveys and administrative data from the …

contracts and positive inflation. Workers with relatively low incomes experience envy, whereas those with relatively high … incomes experience guilt. The former seek to raise their income, and latter seek to reduce it. The greater the inflation rate …, a rise in the inflation rate leads workers to supply more labor over the contract period, generating a significant …

This paper offers a reappraisal of the inflation-unemployment tradeoff, based on "frictional growth" describing the … able to work themselves out fully. In this context, monetary shocks have a gradual and delayed effect on inflation, and …

and inflation rates. Building on the lessons from recent advances in time-series econometrics, we suggest instead that one …

-run inflation-unemployment tradeoff. …

money growth leads to higher inflation and higher unemployment, so the long-run Phillips curve is not vertical. The optimal …