In this paper we analyze intergenerational income and schooling mobility during the 1996-2006 decade in Chile. Using the countries most extended household panel survey, we overcome some of the limitations of the previous Chilean studies by using observed income data for both parents and...

Chile posee un sistema de seguro de desempleo con un diseño y forma de financiamiento única en el mundo.Esta combina cuentas de ahorro individuales, financiadas por trabajadores y empresas con un fondoredistributivo financiado por empresas y el Estado. Este paper intenta determinar los...

Utilizando datos de panel, especialmente recogidos para evaluar los efectos del terremoto de 2010 ocurrido en Chile, se analiza el impacto del terremoto sobre la pobreza multidimensional. Se miden privaciones en cinco dimensiones: educación, salud, vivienda, ingresos y trabajo, y se usa el...

Using household surveys that cover more than 50 years of the political and economic history of Chile, we investigate changes in the shape of the distribution of income in Chile, and in the composition of top 10% and top 1% incomes. In line with international evidence, top incomes concentration...

This study estimates the causal effect of family size and birth order on educational attainment of individuals in the long run. Following recent literature we use the presence of twins as an instrumental variable for family size and fixed effects model for birth order. The results suggest that...