This paper analizes with cross-sectional data if the Golden Rule condition satisfies: where the saving index is equal to capital (beta) or to the real interest rate, equal to the gross output growth of households.

This book presents a set of studies on contemporary discrimination in Latin America that takes advantage of these new tools by focusing on social interactions that range from cooperation, group formation, and the impact of migration in poor families to specific markets such as housing and labor....

The objective of this paper is to better understand peer popularity during adolescence and detect discrimination. The paper subsequently explores how student's characteristics affect their popularity. It is found that physically attractive students and with high academic performance are highly...

The Youth Training Program (YTP) was an important component of Argentina’s active labor policy of the 1990s. The program offered courses of three months’ duration, divided equally between lectures and practical experience, and targeted young people, most of whom were not employed and had a...

The objective of this paper is to better understand peer popularity during adolescence and detect discrimination. High school students in Argentina are asked to select and rank 10 classmates with whom they would like to form a team to perform school activities, and this information is then used...

This paper studies the convergence in output per capita in 7 Latin American Economies, during the period 1960-1995, breaking it down on its two main determinants: total input and total factor productivity. Total input is in turn broken down in two inputs (labor and capital) and each one of these...

This paper aims at assessing the importance of total factor productivity (TFP) on economic growth and at “explaining” TFP growth. The contribution share of TFP growth to GDP growth will be estimated for 96 countries in the period 1950-1987. Additionally, previous estimates covering a longer...

El objetivo de este trabajo es adquirir un mejor entendimiento del fenómeno de la popularidad de compañeros de clase durante la adolescencia y detectar señales de discriminación. En Argentina, estudiantes de secundaria seleccionan y clasifican a 10 compañeros de clase con los que les...

The main objective of this paper is to evaluate the role of infrastructure investment (ISI) in the economic growth of Latin American countries. Previous studies evaluating the role of infrastructure capital on economic growth have generally focused on industrialized countries; few have...