This report describes the socio-economic situation in Chile based on a large set of distributional, labor and social … statistics computed from microdata of the Encuesta de Caracterización Socioeconómica Nacional (CASEN) from 1990 to 2000. The … report also draws from other data sources and the existing literature. Chile had an outstanding economic performance during …

regional prices. The second objective of the paper is to review the poverty and inequality literature in Chile. In particular …This paper has two main objectives. On the one hand, it is aimed at assessing the reliability of poverty and inequality … poverty and inequality of adjustments for non-response, missing values, under-report, implicit rent from own-housing, and …

paper analyzes the sensitivity of inequality and poverty indicators to the adjustments made by ECLAC so as to enable a … consistency between what is reported by the CASEN survey and the National Accounts figures in Chile. The results reveal that this … leads to important changes in the top-end of the distribution and to an overestimation in the main inequality indicators in …

We study an innovative welfare program in Chile which combines a period of frequent home visits to households in … extreme poverty, with guaranteed access to social services. Program impacts are identified using a regression discontinuity …

We study an innovative welfare program in Chile which combines a period of frequent home visits to households in … extreme poverty, with guaranteed access to social services. Program impacts are identified using a regression discontinuity …

We study an innovative welfare program in Chile which combines a period of frequent home visits to households in … extreme poverty, with guaranteed access to social services. Program impacts are identified using a regression discontinuity …

This paper evaluates the effect of an anti-poverty program, Chile Solidario, during its first two years of operation …

The Chilean development story of the last two to three decades is a mix of successes in the macro, growth, poverty and … trade fronts but also of failure in reducing chronic inequality of income and wealth. In addition, the current growth …

This article traces inequality and numeracy development in the regions of Chile during the 19th and early 20th century …. Inequality, measured with anthropometric methods, was associated with a lower speed of human capital formation. Not all talents …, in its northern regions we find that Chile was relatively equal and numerate during the 19th century, and the south …

This paper describes the structural transformations that Chile has experienced in the last 50 years and how they have … transition from the import-substitution industrialization strategy to the outward-oriented neoliberal model of high inequality, a … accounts for two-thirds of total employment in the economy. The trend of persistent deindustrialization and high inequality is …