In this paper we assess the sensitivity of measures of inequality of opportunity to long-term earnings data. We compare indicators using four and seven year earnings with indicators that use the most commonly available yearly and monthly earnings. We argue that four and seven year earnings are...

The objective of this study is to characterize the fertility trends in Chile in recent decades, and identify the main factors underlying them. This study is based on an in-depth analysis of the available data: the population censuses of 1992 and 2002, socioeconomic household surveys, and data...

El artículo presenta y analiza la política social en Chile. La discusión del documento gira en torno a cuatro objetivos de equidad social: la superación de la pobreza, la reducción de la vulnerabilidad, la mayor igualdad de oportunidades y la reducción de la desigualdad del ingreso. El...

The first time in which the International Adult Literacy Survey was carried out in a developing country was in 1998 in Chile. The survey measures the effective skills of the population over 15 years of age in the comprehension and processing of texts, documents and quantitative information on a...

El artículo revisa críticamente la literatura empírica respecto del impacto de la competencia y participación de privados sobre los resultados de la educación chilena. El artículo identifica períodos de acuerdo a la extensión de la competencia y participación privada; discute la naturaleza...

This book examines poverty as a structural problem caused by the way economic systems operate. It poses a simple question: Why do poor people earn less? Case studies in Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica and Peru find the poor caught in a vicious circle. They lack sufficient access to...

El objetivo central de esta investigación es examinar los vínculos existentes entre la tendencia de activos y la condición de pobreza en el caso de la economía chilena. El primer capítulo entrega antecedentes de estudios previos sobre la pobreza en Chile y provee una visión actualizada de...

This study provides a socioeconomic characterization of Chilean higher education students based on microdata from the 1990 CASEN survey. Significant subsidies are channelized to these students in the form of tuition fees that are below production costs an