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...

This study measures the contribution of inequality of opportunities on the educational attainment of Chilean students, captured through the SIMCE test scores. For this, it employs a recently introduced methodology that quantifies the effect of exogenous and endogenous factors on socioeconomic...

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...

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...