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Se utilizan cortes transversales y cohortes sintéticas para estimar las tasas de retorno a la educación en Chile. Para corte transversal se usa las CASEN de los años 1990 a 2006. Para cohortes sintéticas, las Encuestas de Ocupación del gran Santiago para los años 1957 a 2000 y la encuesta...
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general access to education, property and credit. Education forms citizens capable of interacting freely in a multicultural …
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explores the intergenerational education mobility froma regional perspective. The key question is in which cities and regions … is there more independence between the education of parents and offsprings? Differences between migrants and non …,there was higher mobility where average education levels improved the most. …
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education is one of the most important determinants of economic growth and development. The main purpose of this paper is to … evaluate if double-shift schooling has a negative effect on the quality of education in Colombia. Instrumental variables …
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rich experience of 50 years of revolution in education and, in turn, is a creative synthesis of the Cuban tradition of … education, carried qualitatively higher levels. …
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This paper aims to defend the importance of the information and persuasion in financial markets. The conviction relates to the developments of Argumentation Theory (AT). Understand that economic agents react according to the information they have, and that beliefs play an important role because...
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This paper proposes a central idea in diffusion research is that influential –a minority of individuals who influence an exceptional number of their peers- are important to formation of public opinion. Here we examine this idea, which we call the “influential hypothesis”, using the...
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The Neoclassical Theory assumes that individuals are essentially selfish and maximize the utility of their income, measured on some utility scale. It defines the rationality of individuals based on preference relations, which should not change by the context. However, it is a fact that...
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The consumer’s theory is a particular case of the theory of choice. This paper will explore the fundamental propositions that explain the behavior of a consumer agent and then be expressed in terms of the function of utility. Thus, the concept of utility is divorced of any philosophical and...
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This paper discusses the formulation of the problem of consumer choice as an optimization problem, specifying the formal conditions to be met for such a case. Furthermore, some relevant theorems be derived from the existence of the utility function for the marshallian demand and the hicksian...
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