among pharmaceutical retailers in Chile--as a natural experiment to estimate the impact of access to the Pill on fertility … number of children born to unmarried mothers, from mothers in their early 20's, and to primiparae women. Moreover, we find … interpret as manifestations of active efforts of termination in a country where abortion was illegal. As the "extra" children …

sample of preschool and early school children in Chile. We extend the previous literature by using longitudinal data, which … find wealth disparities in cognitive skills favoring the better-off emerge early in life and continue after children turn 6 …

Children spend years in foster care, and there are concerns that bureaucratic hurdles contribute to unnecessarily long … social services to foster children living in institutions. Using administrative data linked across government registries, we …

Using household survey data from Chile the current paper presents evidence of how the nutritional status of the child … family resources to their children than those who are relatively less educated …