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Measuring Vulnerability to Poverty in Chile Using the National Socio Economic Characterization Panel Survey for 1996, 2001, 2006

Bronfman, Javier - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014

Chile provides an interesting setting to analyze vulnerability to poverty, especially today, after the last poverty … dynamics of poverty in Chile. To begin with, I examine socioeconomic transitions using transition matrices, confirming a great … in Chile by estimating a vulnerability measurement. The evidence reveals a high level of vulnerability to poverty present …

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The impact of income adjustments in the Casen Survey on the measurement of inequality in Chile

Bravo, David; Torres, José A. Valderrama - In: Estudios de Economia 38, 1 Year 2011, pp. 43-65

consistency between what is reported by the CASEN survey and the National Accounts figures in Chile. The results reveal that this … Chile. Chile looks more unequal in international relative terms due to this adjustment. …

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Getting ahead, falling behind and standing still. Income mobility in Chile

Castro, Rodrigo - In: Estudios de Economia 38, 1 Year 2011, pp. 243-258

This paper analyses household income mobility in Chile between 1996 and 2001. Compared to industrialized and most …

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Housing Policy Matters for the Poor: A Study of the Housing Sector and Housing Policies in Argentina, Chile and Colombia: Housing Conditions in LAC 1995-2006

Rojas, Eduardo; Medellín, Nadin - Inter-American Development Bank - 2010

Shelter is a basic need for human beings. As with food, humans need a constant supply of the services provided by a house to survive. However not everybody have access to adequate shelter, especially low income households in developing countries. This study reviews the housing conditions of...

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"Simulations of Full-Time Employment and Household Work in the Levy Institute Measure of Time and Income Poverty (LIMTIP) for Argentina, Chile, and Mexico"

Masterson, Thomas - Levy Economics Institute - 2012

The method for simulation of labor market participation used in the LIMTIP models for Argentina, Chile, and Mexico is …

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Poverty Reduction in Chile: Has economic growth been enough?

Olavarria-Gambi, Mauricio - In: Journal of Human Development and Capabilities 4 (2003) 1, pp. 103-123

This paper analyses the relationship between growth, education, health status, and poverty in Chile. A comparative …

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Poverty Estimating Poverty for Indigenous Groups by Matching Census and Survey Data

Agostini, Claudio; Brown, Phillip; Roman, Andrei - ILADES, Facultad de Economía y Negocios - 2008

It is widely held that indigenous Chileans experience greater rates of poverty and indigence than non-indigenousChileans, yet the evidence to date has been based on surveys that are not representative by ethnicity. In this paper,we use poverty mapping methodologies that are typically applied to...

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Estimating Poverty for Indigenous Groups in Chile by Matching Census and Survey Data

Agostini, Claudio A.; Brown, Philip H.; Roman, Andrei - William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan - 2008

It is widely held that indigenous Chileans experience greater rates of poverty and indigence than non-indigenous Chileans, yet the evidence to date has been based on surveys that are not representative by ethnicity. In this paper, we use poverty mapping methodologies that are typically applied...

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Measuring Poverty Reduction and Targeting Performance Under Multiple Government Programs

Makdissi, Paul; Wodon, Quentin - Département d'économique, Faculté d'administration - 2001

The evaluation of the poverty impact and targeting performance of a given social program may depend on how other programs are treated in the analysis.Using well-known results from cooperative game theory, this paper proposes an empirically simple yet theoretically sound method for allocating...

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"Quality of Match for Statistical Matches Used in the Development of the Levy Institute Measure of Time and Income Poverty (LIMTIP) for Argentina, Chile, and Mexico"

Masterson, Thomas - Levy Economics Institute - 2011

The quality of match of three statistical matches used in the LIMTIP estimates for Argentina, Chile, and Mexico is … 2006 Encuesta Caracteristizacion Socioeconomica Nacional (CASEN 2006) for Chile. The third match combines the 2008 Encuesta …

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