Latin America is a volatile, crisis-prone region, with limited and inadequate social insurance. Therefore, the long-term as well as the recent poor suffer significantly during crises. Furthermore, social spending is procyclical in the region, but less so than total spending, indicating that the...

This research reports the results of a survey carried out by the Department of Economics of the National University of La Plata. Subjects were 4676 regular students of the school who participated on a voluntay basis. We have estimated the determinants of the students' performance. To this aim we...

Este trabajo se ocupa del progreso, luego del ingreso, de los estudiantes de la cohorte 2000 de la Facultad de Ciencias Económicas de la Universidad Nacional de La Plata. Si bien hay antecedentes de medición del rendimiento de los estudiantes de la Facultad y sus factores explicativos, se...

This work has as objective to analyze the factors that influence in the students' performance. The whole population of students of public universities in Argentina is used. The data are of the Census of Students of National Universities of 1994. Indicators of the main characteristics of the...

In this paper the fiscal situation of argentinian provinces in the period 1983-2006 is studied and the impact of national policies is estimated. Without these policies the provinces would have had surplus versus the deficit that accounting shows. The provincial debt on December 31st 2006 was...