El programa de transferencias condicionadas en Colombia, Familias en Acción, inició en el año 2009 un plan de bancarización de sus beneficiarios. El propósito central consiste en abrir cuentas de ahorro de bajo monto para cada uno de los beneficiarios del programa, que no sólo permiten el...

Tax evasion is an illegal activity combated by the tax administration through different tools. Implicitly the risk is present in this type of activity. Therefore, the risk assessment is an important component on the decision of evasive behavior. At the same time, there are other factors that...

Tax evasion is an illegal activity combated by the tax administration through different tools. Implicitly the risk is present in this type of activity. Therefore, the risk assessment is an important component on the decision of evasive behavior. At the same time, there are other factors that...

In Latin America the inequality of income has declined in the 2000s. This study applies a variant of the noparametric decomposition methodology proposed by Barros et al. (2006, 2007) to assess the relevance of the households' sources of income, focusing on the importance of public transfers, on...

The aim of this study is to present the most important factors that explain multidimensional poverty in Spain, highlighting the relationships between the explanatory elements themselves in the spirit of enhancing the effects of poverty policy. For this purpose, we have designed a Structural...

We study the effect of a household subsidy to induce the adoption of more efficient and less polluting wood combustion technologies. We compare, through numerical simulations, several subsidy designs with respect to the impact on aggregate emissions, costs, and cost-effectiveness indicators. Two...

We study the effect of a household subsidy to induce the adoption of more efficient and less polluting wood combustion technologies. We compare, through numerical simulations, several subsidy designs with respect to the impact on aggregate emissions, costs, and cost-effectiveness indicators. Two...

The aim of this paper is to construct a multidimensional poverty indicator, to detect the main poverty risk focuses in Spain. The indicator, which has been developed through a second-order factor analysis, consists of an objective and a subjective part, which incorporate various dimensions such...

The aim of this study is to present the most important factors that explain multidimensional poverty in Spain, highlighting the relationships between the explanatory elements themselves in the spirit of enhancing the effects of poverty policy. For this purpose, we have designed a Structural...